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is it like they are turning a blind eye to what is happening in their club? i think time was that was the case. you know, after the strike and when mcgwire and sosa battled it out for home runs the owners were happy to take everyone s money. now a realization that peds are bad for the game. they have made some progress. until they change the culture and the calculation of players, melky cabrera just signed a $16 million contract after he got popped for drugs! ryan braun signed $105 million dollar extension and a-rod is the richest player in the history of baseball. peds and peds and for them, peds in their mind might be the difference between a major league career and making hundreds of thousands of dollars and working in a factory or a sugar cane field in the dominican republic. so for them the calculation is it s a chance they could take. a-rod has suggested his
there are ever more sophisticated means of doing it. i don t think they can get the full-blown effect that mcgwire, sosa, bonds got where they could probably turn themselveses into psi borgs, but with the use of hgh and testosterone and masking agents they can get some edge, otherwise they wouldn t do it, so it s ongoing. but within the game, the disapproval mounts and the vast majority of players stand firmly against it, and you find some of them, like matt scherzer, a player from the detroit tigers, and others saying here s what we should add to baseball s arsenal the right at the team s discretion to void a long-term contract if a player is found, and after he gets due process and goes through appeals, so it s a fair process, if the player is found to have used peds, the team has the right to void the long-term contract. in the case of ryan braun, for example, he loses $3 million. that s a lot of money. but there s still about $100 million left on the contract. if you put in that
sophisticated means of doing it. i don t think they can get the full-blown effect that mcgwire, sosa, bonds got where they could probably turn themselveses into psi borgs, but with the use of hgh and testosterone and masking agents they can get some edge, otherwise they wouldn t do it, so it s ongoing. but within the game, the disapproval mounts and the vast majority of players stand firmly against it, and you find some of them, like matt scherzer, a player from the detroit tigers, and others saying here s what we should add to baseball s arsenal the right at the team s discretion to void a long-term contract if a player is found, and after he gets due process and goes through appeals, so it s a fair process, if the player is found to have used peds, the team has the right to void the long-term contract. in the case of ryan braun, for example, he loses $3 million. that s a lot of money. but there s still about $100 million left on the contract. if you put in that clause, that you cou
on throughout baseball and you could say professional sports and to some degree you have $275 million on the line for a-rod. there s an expectation of performance and probably a culture of doping that we re sort of just uncovering at this point is sort of prosecuting these cases individually the way to go or do there need to be a sea change that includes decisions made by owners and managers alike along with players? i ll handle it quickly. then throw that one around. that is a collective bargaining agreement so that is a deal deal between the players association and ownership in the commissioner s office. this new drug program they have. for a long period of time in the late 90s, sosa, mcguire, bonds, clemmons, they had none so players got away with everything. now baseball s gotten out of their way to really crackdown which is what needs to be done. as a result, these players are not going to be able to get away