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(1) STEROIDS IN BASEBALL
The heat is being turned up on the game and its players.
Cubs manager Dusty Baker calls the increasing suspicion of players McCarthyism, and he isn't wrong. Others call it a witch hunt, and they're not wrong. The latest furor over performance-enhancing drugs in baseball includes finger-pointing, political grandstanding and classic media hysteria. It isn't fair. But it is exactly what Major League Baseball deserves.
MLB didn't simply stick its head in the sand, it buried its entire muscle-bound body, creating an environment in which every player is under suspicion. First, MLB had no drug policy. Then, it enacted a ...