For all the fuss over reported admissions of steroid use by Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, Major League Baseball probably won't discipline them.
Instead of addressing the past, Commissioner Bud Selig is more concerned with pressuring players to agree to more frequent testing before the current labor contract expires in December 2006.
The players who testified before a federal grand jury are protected from discipline because steroids weren't banned by Major League Baseball until Sept. 30, 2002, previously undetectable THG wasn't prohibited until last March, and Human Growth Hormone still isn't blacklisted.
Although baseball's labor contract calls for penalties for positive tests and criminal convictions, there's no discipline specified for fessing up to past use.
"These articles say baseball is reeling from these allegations," New York Mets pitcher Tom Glavine, a Major League Baseball Players Association leader, said Sunday. "To me, there is nothing new. People have been talking about the steroid issue for several years now. What's coming out of the grand jury testimony, I don't think there's anything surprising."
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Instead of addressing the past, Commissioner Bud Selig is more concerned with pressuring players to agree to more frequent testing before the current labor contract expires in December 2006.
The players who testified before a federal grand jury are protected from discipline because steroids weren't banned by Major League Baseball until Sept. 30, 2002, previously undetectable THG wasn't prohibited until last March, and Human Growth Hormone still isn't blacklisted.
Although baseball's labor contract calls for penalties for positive tests and criminal convictions, there's no discipline specified for fessing up to past use.
"These articles say baseball is reeling from these allegations," New York Mets pitcher Tom Glavine, a Major League Baseball Players Association leader, said Sunday. "To me, there is nothing new. People have been talking about the steroid issue for several years now. What's coming out of the grand jury testimony, I don't think there's anything surprising."
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