The above comment should say “I don’t know how MLB does its testing…”

Perhaps because of the risk involved. I don’t know how does its testing, but I can give you my experience with drug testing from being in the military. They would do two different kinds of tests: command-wide, and random tests.

Command-wide is self-explanatory; everyone at the command pees in a cup, no exceptions. The problem is that testing all that urine is incredibly expensive. Word had it that the military would only test about a quarter of those samples, so your chances of actually being tested were relatively low. The command’s strategy was to take the positives and get them to rat their friends out. Hence, they wouldn’t actually have to test each sample (at least not initially) to find the majority of people who were using drugs. I’m not sure exactly what percentage they do test, but by my observation, the “word on the street” seemed to be pretty accurate.

The other thing to note is that command-wide tests didn’t happen all that frequently. Random testing happened much more frequently, but was very limited in number, and some people (like myself) just happened to not get tested very often at all (I think I was selected for maybe 2 random tests over 5 years). Not saying I did this at all, but we often had some idea of when the random tests were coming and knew to expect about 1 command-wide a year, so it wouldn’t be very difficult for someone who used drugs on a semi-regular basis to evade a positive test for many years (provided they were discrete about it and didn’t associate with people more open and risky about it).

My point is that even with standard testing in place, your chances of getting caught seem to increase almost exponentially with each additional person involved. Hence, it’s only smart not to dope your entire team, with or without their knowledge, if you have any hope of not getting caught.

Hey, it’s really dark in here!!! What’s that smell?

Maybe ramifications means to him “the social cost of going back into the public and trying to correct it.” It’s hard to correct an injustice in the social realm, let alone the legal realm. Just look at how people now treat Braun. Even if Raffy cleared his name, The Curse of the Steroid age is upon him.

Even with a legal judgement clearing him….What writers would and wouldn’t put their name on a Hall vote for him? Again, just look to Braun’s case, a court said he was innocent due to technicalities, but see how many still hold him guilty.

I’m curious from a legal standpoint, what kind of actual evidence could be presented to “clear” his name? Someone just saying, “Oh, actually it was me that did it to him.” It doesn’t seem strong enough?

Mr. Rogers wasn’t a sniper?? :-O

Right. Remember you said that the next time the nice old man down your street is deported for having been a concentration camp guard.

It involves a game that was cancelled at Camden Yards in the mid-90s due to a power failure that prevented the lights from working. The rumor said that earlier that day Cal walked in on his wife and Kevin Costner (who was in Maryland at the time for a movie), and was so distraught he was unable to play. So the “power failure” was concocted to cover the event and keep The Streak going.

It’s one of those goofy urban legends on par with Mr. Rogers the Marine sniper and the hospitalizations of Rod Stewart and Richard Gere. Snopes even debunked it.