yankeesince59
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...I wonder who they are? ...this is from Sports Illustrated;
Suppressing performance-enhancing drug use:
"Performance-enhancing drugs are always going to be a part of every sport. It’s just human nature that someone is going to seek that edge, despite the risks involved, because there will always be someone for whom the potential rewards far out-strip the potential penalties. Think of Bartolo Colon in his comeback attempt, a player in his late 30s with no Hall of Fame hopes who had been out of the game completely in 2010.
That doesn’t mean that MLB should stop doing whatever it can to minimize the use of PEDs in the game. Manfred has a strong track record in this regard, having worked closely with Selig in bringing baseball from having no PED policy just over a decade ago to having one of the strongest in professional sports today. However, Manfred was also closely involved in some of MLB's questionable tactics in its Biogenesis investigation, such as paying for evidence and cooperation from potentially unreliable sources. Manfred has to be careful to maintain (or, in the eyes of some, restore) the integrity of MLB and his office in such investigations while continuing to root out cheaters.
In the near term, the Drug Enforcement Administration in its investigation of Biogenesis has reportedly turned up the names of additional major league players who were clients of Anthony Bosch and Biogenesis. MLB has requested those names from the DEA and will surely seek to issue suspensions to the players found to have violated the league’s drug policy. Those suspensions could prove to be one of Selig’s final acts as commissioner. If not, they could be one of Manfred’s first. "
http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/15/ro...llenges-bud-selig?xid=aol_home&ncid=webmail22
Suppressing performance-enhancing drug use:
"Performance-enhancing drugs are always going to be a part of every sport. It’s just human nature that someone is going to seek that edge, despite the risks involved, because there will always be someone for whom the potential rewards far out-strip the potential penalties. Think of Bartolo Colon in his comeback attempt, a player in his late 30s with no Hall of Fame hopes who had been out of the game completely in 2010.
That doesn’t mean that MLB should stop doing whatever it can to minimize the use of PEDs in the game. Manfred has a strong track record in this regard, having worked closely with Selig in bringing baseball from having no PED policy just over a decade ago to having one of the strongest in professional sports today. However, Manfred was also closely involved in some of MLB's questionable tactics in its Biogenesis investigation, such as paying for evidence and cooperation from potentially unreliable sources. Manfred has to be careful to maintain (or, in the eyes of some, restore) the integrity of MLB and his office in such investigations while continuing to root out cheaters.
In the near term, the Drug Enforcement Administration in its investigation of Biogenesis has reportedly turned up the names of additional major league players who were clients of Anthony Bosch and Biogenesis. MLB has requested those names from the DEA and will surely seek to issue suspensions to the players found to have violated the league’s drug policy. Those suspensions could prove to be one of Selig’s final acts as commissioner. If not, they could be one of Manfred’s first. "
http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/08/15/ro...llenges-bud-selig?xid=aol_home&ncid=webmail22
