Sosa, No Way!!!

The New York Times is reporting that Sammy Sosa tested positive in 2003. Wow. I am totally shocked! I figured Manny was probably juicing, and that Arod couldn't be that good, but Sosa? What's next, Jason Tyner used steroids?

This is getting ridiculous. Apparently there is this big list of positive tests from the 2003 season, and the MLB or whoever it may be decides to release a name here and a name there whenever they desire. When the Arod stuff came out at first I wanted all the names to come out, then I thought about it and figured that's not right because well the players only agreed to it because it would be anonymous. But if the list isn't going to remain secret what's the point of not releasing all the names, all at once?

There is one problem with the list ever coming out though. That is I fear people may think players who are not on the list are 100% clean. Say you are a Red Sox fan and with Ortiz struggling this year (although maybe he's starting to right the ship) you are worried it's because he's off the juice. Then the list of 104 names come out from 2003 and Ortiz is not on the list. Should you now feel relieved that only Manny tainted the Red Sox titles? Forgive my bias for a second, and I don't mean to sit here and tell you Ortiz used steroids (quite frankly I'm not really convinced he did, it's not totally uncommon for a player like Ortiz to decline fast and you can't just throw luck out of the equation either, maybe he really is turning it around now), but just because you didn't fail one test in 2003, doesn't make you clean.

It wouldn't surprise me to find out that after releasing the names there are more questions than there are answers, but it's not right to leak these names one by one. If this is becomes a trend they all need to be released. It does make you wonder though how the hell does Selena Roberts and a couple of lawyers leak these things, but all George Mitchell could find was a couple of batboys. A big thing from the Mitchell Report however was that players stopped using detectable steroids and started using undetectable steroids. I have yet to see a reason why that wouldn't still be true today. People will undoubtedly think that the testing now assures everything is A ok but unless baseball wants to have blood testing saving all the records to retest once the undetectable stuff becomes detectable in the future, there will always be a cloud over the sport. On the other hand, the NFL has thrived, so maybe if baseball waits long enough people will just stop caring.