Blood Tests for Everyone

Dodgers SB Jeff Kent told the LA Times that if baseball really wants to stop the abuse of drugs, then everyone should be drug tested. Amen to that. The operative word being “if”.

“Why not have blood tests? If ultimately you want a clean game, then it needs to happen.

“They ought to be testing for drugs in the playoffs, too. They [MLB] never do that.”

Interesting that MLB never tests in the playoffs.

Interesting that Clemens thinks we believe his bs plea about being innocent. Could be that McNamee stayed at a Holiday Inn Express and fooled them all into juicing.

Meanwhile the “parties” — how ironic — are discussing testing policy for MLB.

Days away from a scheduled congressional hearing on steroids, top officials from Major League Baseball and its union quietly opened discussions this week regarding recommendations for a tougher drug-testing policy spelled out in last month’s Mitchell report on steroids use in baseball, according to a source familiar with those talks.

The talks began Tuesday and are ongoing, according to the source, and included MLB President Robert DuPuy and Rob Manfred, baseball’s executive vice president for labor relations, plus Michael Weiner, the union’s general counsel.

Sounds like some CYA. Robert DuPuy is well versed in the ways of the Congress. He has testified previously on Capital Hill. This was over a deal that most fans felt was a “screw you” type of deal.

No doubt the case of Marion Jones is weighing heavily on everyone in sports’ minds. Marion Jones was given 6 months for perjury — for some reason the AP keeps calling it lying — about her drug use and a check kiting scheme.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas said he gave her the maximum under her plea deal to send a message to athletes who have abused drugs and overlooked the values of “hard work, dedication, teamwork and sportsmanship.”

Maybe these players need to get a reality check like Jones?

“I ask you to be as merciful as a human being can be,” said Jones, who cried on her husband’s shoulder after she was sentenced.

You should have thought about your kids before you started your disgraceful behavior. The Judge got it right.

“Athletes in society have an elevated status, they entertain, they inspire, and perhaps, most important, they serve as role models,” Karas said.

Now we need to have the Baseball fools take some heat.

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