Baseball union facing tough questions in wake of A-Rod steroid scandal

Thursday, February 12, 2009

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Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance enhancing drugs while with the Texas Rangers. (Flickr user dunechaser (cc: by-nc-sa))

Alex Rodriguez broke the hearts of fans and delighted his detractors when he admitted this week that he took performance enhancing drugs during his years as a Texas Ranger. While fans may have a lot of questions, one that we had was why would the Major League Baseball players' union keep their best players' failing test results? Why didn't they destroy them before federal agents confiscated them in a 2004 raid? To help us answer those questions we turn to Michael Schmidt, a reporter for the New York Times has been following this story.

Read the Sports Illustrated article that outed A-Rod and Michael Schimdt's continuing coverage of the steroid scandal, The Tumult Continues: Tejada Pleads Guilty from the New York Times.

Guests:

Michael Schmidt

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Daljit Dhaliwal

Comments [1]

anonymous

I disagree with John. Steroids are not just like sports technology or medicine. When all the other players get better bats or sneakers or better physical therapy, you don't have to compromise your own health in order to catch up to them. Allowing steroids would introduce a dangerous arms race.

Feb. 12 2009 06:30 AM

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