David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez joined Alex Rodriquez on the list of 104 players that tested positive on a random drug test in 2003.
The so-called anonymous test that involved a sample of just over 1000 players, was suppose to be confidential with no names attached or recorded. Well, it was not anonymous and names were recorded, as shown by the reports of Manny, A-Rod and Big Papi.
Now first off I would like to state that I am completely against any type of performance enhancing drug, you can see more of my opinion on that in my blog a few weeks ago on Manny.
What I want to talk about in this blog, is this "list" that is starting to leak out to the public. I have multiple problems with this list, and it's really starting to frustrate me, especially after the reports we have just heard today.
First off, whoever decided to leak these names must have a vendetta against Alex Rodriquez, to leak his name out solely was just wrong. Now, Ortiz will have to deal with the media and angry fans, but nothing like what A-Rod had to deal with. It's almost old news at this point, fans are going to say "Ortiz got caught? Oh well A-Rod did it, everyone must of." Ortiz is going to get off much easier then A-Rod did and i think that's just wrong. You have to look at it from a marketing stand-point, who is going to get more media attention and boost ratings higher, A-Rod on steroids or Ortiz? I will take A-Rod in that argument.
Staying on the topic of names being released, why cant they just release all of them! I don't understand why few names are being leaked out. Are they trying to make it more suspenseful? I know some players are more popular than others, but I don't care if the guy never made it out of Single A, everyone needs to be responsible for what they were caught doing, not just the A-Rod's and Big Papi's of the league.
The thing that bothers me the most about this entire situation, is why were the names ever recorded in the first place? According to SI.com, the 2003 drug test, was an experiment to see how many players were under the influence of performance enhancers. The idea of the test was that if more than 5 % of the sample tested positive, MLB would install a new policy, with punishments for P.E.D. users. So did MLB lie to players when they told them no names would be released? Why is no one talking about the fact that the players were basically tricked into thinking they had nothing to worry, so MLB could see what players were taking performance enhancers. Of course no player is going to make a comment on that, because they all know what they did was wrong and they have no defense, but let me do the defending for them in this blog, what Major League Baseball did was wrong.
Once this list comes out the other problem I see is players not being on the list, who took P.E.D.'s in 2003. The random testing was exactly that, IT WAS RANDOM!!!. Only 1000 players were tested, well under the total amount in the league.
Overall, shame on Ortiz, shame on A-Rod, Shame on Manny, they deserve everything that comes to them, but mostly shame on Major League Baseball for letting this list be recorded in the first place.
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