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Monday, February 9, 2009
Baseball officials are mad at Gene Orza, Michael Schmidt writes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/sp...r=2&ref=sports
The issue of who was directly responsible for disposing of the 2003 test results remains murky and not precisely defined for public consumption. But doesn't it stand to reason that that person, whoever it is, should be shoved out of the chain of command?
One of the most remarkable aspects of the whole steroids issue is that while a handful of players -- those named in the Mitchell report, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, now Alex Rodriguez, etc. -- have borne the brunt of the fallout for what was an industry-wide problem, those who held real power in the sport remain in place in the union leadership and in management, essentially untouched.
There has been change in the sport over the past six years, a move into testing. But there never has been any real accountability, other than for a small group of users, which is one of the great failings of the Mitchell report; other than a general statement about general complicity, there was very little in the report about what specific decisions by the sport's leaders helped to foster the rise in steroid use. Bonds probably will never get another job in baseball, and Clemens and McGwire are effectively persona non grata, but the people who made the decisions for the game in the '90s are in power.
Orza and Don Fehr must go, John Harper writes.
Donald Fehr and Gene Orza must go, but there's little chance of that happening
Bud Selig must step up and address the A-Rod issue, writes Chris De Luca.
Silent Bud needs to address latest steroid bombshell :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chris De Luca
Baseball officials are mad at Gene Orza, Michael Schmidt writes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/sp...r=2&ref=sports
The issue of who was directly responsible for disposing of the 2003 test results remains murky and not precisely defined for public consumption. But doesn't it stand to reason that that person, whoever it is, should be shoved out of the chain of command?
One of the most remarkable aspects of the whole steroids issue is that while a handful of players -- those named in the Mitchell report, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, now Alex Rodriguez, etc. -- have borne the brunt of the fallout for what was an industry-wide problem, those who held real power in the sport remain in place in the union leadership and in management, essentially untouched.
There has been change in the sport over the past six years, a move into testing. But there never has been any real accountability, other than for a small group of users, which is one of the great failings of the Mitchell report; other than a general statement about general complicity, there was very little in the report about what specific decisions by the sport's leaders helped to foster the rise in steroid use. Bonds probably will never get another job in baseball, and Clemens and McGwire are effectively persona non grata, but the people who made the decisions for the game in the '90s are in power.
Orza and Don Fehr must go, John Harper writes.
Donald Fehr and Gene Orza must go, but there's little chance of that happening
Bud Selig must step up and address the A-Rod issue, writes Chris De Luca.
Silent Bud needs to address latest steroid bombshell :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chris De Luca
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