Back when Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire were juicing and breaking home run records, BALCO was practically sponsoring many MLB players. The fact that Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun are facing 100 game suspensions (50 for using PED's and 50 for lying about it) seems like a bigger deal. Basically because it happened in a time where Major League Baseball is supposed to be PED free. Steroids and amphetamines were prevalent in clubhouses at the time. The post-BALCO MLB drug policy took care of the PED problem, right? Wrong. Now ESPN is reporting that Biogenesis CEO Tony Bosch is ready to testify that more than players, such as Braun and A-Rod, were using his products. Proof that the League's anti-doping policy has failed miserably.
The testimony of Bosch to the League will surely draw interest from the Players' Association. The league has long condemned Bosch as a "low-life", a "sleazeball" and a "faux-doctor." But now MLB is hanging on his every word, using his testimony to hand out up to 1000 games of suspension to suspected users?
Bigger than BALCO? maybe, but worse than the BALCO because the drug policy instituted by the League after BALCO was supposed to wipe out PED's. MLB would be drug-free. And now there are major stars facing 100 game suspensions for using. Will the policies ever work completely? If new guidelines are put in place and more substances banned, will new companies find other ways of circumventing the League's rules? Of course they will. There are millions of dollars to be made selling PED's to players.
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