March 15, 200620 yr Just what baseball needs. Merry X-Mas Mr. Selig. Get your damn act together. A drug-testing policy document sent to players on the preliminary rosters for the inaugural World Baseball Classic is missing important and popular performance-enhancers banned under the World Anti-Doping Code. Whether the omissions happened accidentally or on purpose, the end result could be the invalidation of any positive test results. The list of missing substances includes Human Growth Hormone, ephedrine and DHEA, a legal pro-hormonal supplement that is similar to andro. The incomplete memo raises questions about baseball's anti-doping compliance and potentially puts in jeopardy the sport's inclusion in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, according to anti-doping officials and experts. "You can't pick and choose what you want like it's off a menu," said Dr. Gary Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee that drafted the list. The document, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN The Magazine, contains a list of banned substances that is far shy of the official roster maintained by WADA. The 2006 prohibited list is available on the WADA Web site. Because the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) is sanctioning the WBC, the tournament is required to adhere to world anti-doping standards. Providing an incomplete list to athletes could be considered non-compliance. According to WADA chairman Dick Pound, his organization is now looking into the IBAF's management of the drug-testing program. Also contained in the document is a clause that preserves confidentiality for players on provisional rosters who may have failed drug tests before the competition began. Gene Orza, chief operating officer of the Major League Baseball Players Association, and Rob Manfred, MLB's executive VP for labor relations, both contend this blanket of confidentiality only extends to players who may have tested positive and then were either cut from their teams or voluntarily dropped from the tournament before the 30-man rosters were set. However, one of the men who wrote the World Anti-Doping Code says the failure to disclose a positive test would still be a violation. Yea, that would look real good for baseball...WADA filling some sort of official complaint about this tourney, after all the good press it's gotten. Pure brilliance!
March 15, 200620 yr Author QUOTE(iWiN4PreP @ Mar 14, 2006 -> 08:50 PM) Wow. Man.. poor selig, i couldnt do his job... I couldn't try that hard to find ways to make sure my players could juice either.
March 15, 200620 yr Mostly because MLB doesn't test for these things in the first place... God I hate baseball sometimes.
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