Baseball: mandatory steroid testing starting in '04

MLB is going to implement a mandatory steroid test since 5 % of players tested, had a positive test. this ought to take the HR #'s down a notch, be ready for good old fashioned baseball with stolen bases and stretching doubles into triples. i think it'll be good for MLB. anyway here's the link.

www.sfgate.com.../news/archive/2003/11/13/national1751EST0750.DTL

[Edited on 11-13-2003 by aegis fang]

Interesting Aegis it seems to be stretching to all sports now..Over here in the UK it has been real hot with the new designer steroid and other drugs and they are really clamping down on it all..
As you say the homers may drop,im sure there is lots of them that take performance inhancing drugs...

I heard on the news that more than half of the players are on steroids.

See what gets me is some of the players are big,but not as big as NFL players..Do the NFL players get tested for steriods and banned substances???

Originally posted by TRD:

See what gets me is some of the players are big,but not as big as NFL players..Do the NFL players get tested for steriods and banned substances???

Yup, they've been tested the last few years I think.

its only baseball that isnt sharp on steriods but now its big. The players are going to get fined and suspened

Any ideas on who will be on the list?

Originally posted by Ben
Any ideas on who will be on the list?

i've got a couple guesses.
1. Barry Bonds
2. Sammy Sosa
3. Gary Shefield
4. the Giambi that plays for the Yankees (his first name escapes me)
5. Eric Gagne
6. and i'm gonna guess that there will be about 1/2 of mlb testing positive if the tests were given today.

yea i was guessing along those names as well.

Bagwell and Thome, i would put them on my list..

basically just about every player in the league.

Originally posted by Ben
basically just about every player in the league.

i wouldn't go that far, just everyone that hit more than 25 HR's last year. oh wait that would encompass just about everyone in MLB wouldn't it.

well i dont think that pitchers are on steroid's

i read this morn in the paper that Bonds might pled that he is on steroids this is big, i know i will never look at him the same if he is on it

Bonds is definatly on it,he is bricking it that he will get caught.lol

lol maybe he will get swomebody to take the test for him so he wont get caught

alot of sport stars have done that in the past Ben so i wouldnt put it past him..

Well barry did tesitfy the other day...we shall see how it goes

Originally posted by Ben
well i dont think that pitchers are on steroid's

I wouldn't be too sure about that they seem to be throwing the ball harder and faster,have they changed the ball over the years or they just getting better(maybe with some help lol)

While it IS nice that players are going to be tested, the consequences of testing positive are laughably pathetic.

I think testing positive once should result in a one season suspension without pay. Forget giving treatment, if the player wants to come back he'll find his own.

A second time should result in multiyear or permanent ban.

being caught at all should cause the player to be stripped of any awards he has won in the past.

As the policy stands right now, it is an embarassment to Major League Baseball.