Bud Selig and MLB upset with continued steroid leaks after Sammy Sosa report

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MLB upset with continued steroid leaks
Chicago Tribune
[Bud Selig] and others at Major League Baseball believe a lawyer with the U.S. Attorney's office -- past or present -- ignored a court seal to whisper Sosa's name to Michael S. Schmidt, the New York Times reporter who broke the story. They see the leaks as unethical and unlawful.

And there's apparently no end in sight.

Baseball heroes continue to be reduced to zeros as a result of their use of now-banned performance enhancing substances that were in wide use before 2004, when random testing -- complete with suspensions -- was implemented as a result of 7.2 percent testing positive in the 2003 survey. You know the names so far.

And now Sosa is on that list. [...]

Baseball's steroid scandal is a story it can't seem to get past -- one the sport believes its fans are over. The New York Times' story follows four months behind one from Sports Illustrated that tied Alex Rodriguez to the 2003 testing, which was done with promises of confidentiality. There were 104 players who tested positive -- and 1,334 who did not -- but the understanding was there would be no sanctions, with the urine samples destroyed by the testing facilities.

But union chief operating officer Gene Orza did not order the samples destroyed when he first could have, and the U.S. Attorney's office sought and received an injunction to stop them from being destroyed. This was done theoretically to help with the investigation of Victor Conte and his Bay Area Laboratories Co-Operative, but a court ordered all the samples maintained, not just those of seven players named in the BALCO case.



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