The effect of steroids in baseball

I am not in favor of "junk science, junk junk or dispute of any kind, however, the emotion and hysteria driving intelligent thought of the debate on improving performance in sport. However, the elements central to our anti-doping policy.
Each of them in the latest doping scandal, the case of the New York Yankees Slugger Alex Rodriguez. Baseball is big business, so the way they deal with this incident is interesting to consider - especially in the context of the test steroids Barry Bonds, who is set to begin soon in San Francisco. In 2003, A-Rod has been tested for doping, as well as any other player in major league baseball.
The idea was to baseball with the basic information needed to develop an anti-doping policy - indeed, whether a policy. Through their cooperation, the players have promised that the tests can not be anonymous, the results are not individual items, and samples immediately destroyed. In contrast, the players' union were to identify the documents long enough to be assigned by the FBI. In due course, A-Rod anonymity has been breached and that the results to the press.
Prosecutors the names of 103 other major leaguers who failed the screen in 2003, so probably more breaches of confidentiality are hiding around the corner. What does this mean? This does not mean that all the basic statistics of the first years after 2000, should be discarded because of steroids.
Nor is the mandate to launch A-Rod to statistics from the 2001-03 period, during which he used the substances. There is no evidence - none - that the use of steroids, usually a product, improving the basic offense, or that A-Rod used to improve its own performance. In 2001, after all, Rodriguez has already been marked as the best player in the game, with the potential to be the greatest ballplayer ever. He was named All-Star in three of his last five seasons full time. It had the rich history of baseball contract. If the figures he has installed in the juice in 2001-03, they have matched or exceeded in 2007 when there was no evidence, there is doping. Of course, at one time he thought steroids would be useful. Of course it is stupid about it. . . almost as stupid as people say it should be permanently excluded from the Hall of Fame.
Of course, no program in the fight against doping can succeed without the cooperation of athletes. But the league owners to treat persistent policies against doping is a goal in the consultation, a bat, but to keep the top players. The Union, therefore, views with suspicion all speak of a system of testing and discipline. Are they members of Congress? They continue to buy steroids Honk road because the toughness of the drug is an election year Surefire crowd pleaser.