Even with testing offenses will be pumped up: much as MLB would like its new steroid policy to eliminate the use of performance-enhancing drugs, only a fool would believe it's going to happen.(Baseball)

The silliest assumption I've heard in spring training is that offense will decline because Major League Baseball is adopting tougher steroid testing. Home run and scoring rates increased during the first two years of testing, feeble though the program may have been. Though a slight drop-off certainly is possible, a dramatic change is unlikely.

Here's why:

* Players still will use performance-enhancing drugs.

News flash! Steroids aren't going away. Testing prevents athletes from using an optimal dosage, says Charles Yesalis, a Penn State professor and a leading authority on performance-enhancing drugs. But cheaters beat the tests by using lower ...