A Sea Of Red

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/ ... ncing-drug

I must say I was a little upset by this report. I was really hoping baseball had turned the corner on PEDs. Having a newly crowned MVP testing positive is never good news.

ESPN's Buster Olney via Twitter wrote:"It's fairly apparent from texts/e-mails that players now give much less latitude to peers on PED stuff than they did a decade ago. Over time, more and more players have come to view PED users as direct threat to their union brethren -- for jobs, for their livelihood."

Here's a good link explaining how MLB drug tests are handled.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/w ... &eref=sihp

Thoughts?

(Edited to include full SI link)

adam42381 wrote:http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/ ... ncing-drug

I must say I was a little upset by this report. I was really hoping baseball had turned the corner on PEDs. Having a newly crowned MVP testing positive is never good news.

ESPN's Buster Olney via Twitter wrote:"It's fairly apparent from texts/e-mails that players now give much less latitude to peers on PED stuff than they did a decade ago. Over time, more and more players have come to view PED users as direct threat to their union brethren -- for jobs, for their livelihood."

Here's a good link explaining how MLB drug tests are handled.

http://t.co/QK79fLE3

Thoughts?

I'm feeling the same way. I hoped that MLB had turned the table on the testing. I hope that there is some reasonable explanation -- Braun did take a second test and it came out clean -- but the realist inside me knows that it's probably not the case.

Liberty4Life wrote: I'm feeling the same way. I hoped that MLB had turned the table on the testing. I hope that there is some reasonable explanation -- Braun did take a second test and it came out clean -- but the realist inside me knows that it's probably not the case.

But if you were to rank my "disappointment that sports isn't as pure as I hoped" scale, I would say Braun would be #2 behind Pujols leaving for Anaheim.