You want to stop lumping the non-cheaters with the cheaters, then fight to have more punishment and more testing.

Here is Braun trying to use the media to clear his name, but then he chickened out on doing the DNA testing.

“Sources also told Munson that there was doubt over whose urine was actually being tested. Braun offered to take a DNA test to confirm whose urine was in the sample, but Major League Baseball declined. However, an MLB source told ESPN’s Mike Golic that Braun’s side backed off of the offer to take a DNA test.”

That is part of my point. If the “majority” of the players wanted more stringent testing, then they should be able to get it. So since they fight for less testing and seem accept status quo, it leads me to believe the “majority” of players are cheating.

If the non-cheaters were smart, they would push for better testing. They make more money for their real abilities and can compete at a level playing field. If they have to bat against the PED pitchers, their batting numbers go down. Also their batting numbers look worse against the batting numbers of the PED batters.

So until there is outcry by players that allow for better testing, I will still believe the majority are cheaters. I am an Angel fan, but more likely than not that Mike Trout uses some form of PEDs.

Read my commentary again. Where do I say remove testing completely from the MLB? Do you work for FoxNews?

The cops don’t catch every speeder, in fact they don’t catch a majority. So we should just stop enforcing the speed limits, right?

Perhaps there are many players pushing for more stringent testing, but they may very well be in the minority. When the candidate you voted for doesn’t win does that mean you then consider yourself a supporter of the candidate who did? Not using PEDs, but also not seeing stricter testing, doesn’t mean you should be lumped in with the cheaters.

Anyone that wants “better testing” though? Please, list what you think is “better testing”. The IOC standards and tests are the state of the art. That’s what MLB uses with a few variations. International Cycling is the same way. In all cases there are cheaters caught and cheaters uncaught. The nature of this beast is that cheating is easy if you have the means and testing is beatable if you have some knowledge. Demanding “better tests” is demanding that science speeds up in an area where there are no life threatening “greater good” outcomes.

Its sports and sporting outcomes. No lives hang in the balance.

In the meantime, athletes will return positive tests, they will engage in the process, and they may be cleared or they may not. Absent all the facts and expertise, we have to put a certain amount of faith in the process. There really isn’t anything better we could do beyond engaging in which hunts.

From Wikipedia:

“Gowachin are a fictional race of frog-like humanoids featured in the Frank Herbert books Whipping Star and The Dosadi Experiment. Herbert developed the race from a brief mention by Jorj X. McKie in the short story The Tactful Saboteur.”

I’ve read Herbert, but I must have missed those two.

“The Gowachin regard their legal practices as the strongest evidence that they are civilized. Gowachin law is based upon the notion of a healthy disrespect for all laws; the purpose of this notion is to avoid the stultifying accretion of a body of laws and precedents that bind Gowachin mechanically.

“In a Gowachin trial, everything is on trial: every participant, including the judges; every law; even the foundational precept of Gowachin law. Legal ideas from other systems are turned on their head: Someone pronounced ‘innocent’ (guilty in other terms) by the court is torn to pieces by angry spectators; judges may have bias (‘If I can decide for my side, I will’), though not prejudice (‘I will decide for my side, regardless’); defendant and plaintiff are chosen at trial by the side bringing the complaint choosing one role or the other; torture is permitted; and all procedural rules may be violated, but only by finding conflict within procedural rules”

This may be only slightly more convoluted and time-consuming than the current state of affairs in the U.S. legal system, but it certainly resembles how many contentious conflicts are “resolved.,” particularly on the sports side.

Wright came into the league after testing was already put into place, Dunn was just in the league a couple years at that time, so I don’t really see them as guys who should have done something about the lack of testing years ago. Besides, you can be against PEDs, be mad about players being falsely accused, hope users get caught, etc. and still think the current punishments themselves are ok. And really short of maybe kicking guys out of the game after one positive test (which is extreme) there are always going to be people arguing punishments should be more severe.

I think in this case, the problem is less with the testing system and more with completely unrealistic expectations.

So in conclusion, I believe most players are taking PEDs because there is not an outcry for stronger testing. Stronger testing helps players that do not take PEDs and only hurts the players that take them.

Nothing, ever, in any way shape or form will catch everyone who cheated.

I think we can all pretty much agree that steroid use is way down in MLB, and with the implementation of HGH testing, that will probably go down to. With these results, we should absolutely trust the system because it seems to have been pretty effective in vastly reducing the number of players who use steroids in the game.

it took MLB going in front of congress and being threatened to loss their anti-trust exemption (which would affect the players too) that the players finally agreed to do something (mainly because Selig was starting to look like a good guy by asking for testing with next to nothing for punishment and the players were still saying no). Once the players realized they were losing the PR battle, they gave in.

All the while completely absolving the owners who did soooooooooooo much to stem the horde of roided up ballplayers from filling their stadia for that decade.