MLB player’s union wins key victory

Major League Baseball’s player union has one a key legal victory in the steroids fight. On Wednesday a Federal Appellate Court sided with the Union and ruled that Federal Agents were wrong to seize the results from the now infamous 2003 steroids test. In that test, which was suppose to be private and to help determine how bad the steroid problem is baseball really was, 104 players allegedly tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Since then many of the names on that list have slowly leaked out.

With this ruling the Player’s Union is hoping to stem the tide of those leaks. At this point it does no one any good to continue to leak the names off that list that was just a test to determine the level of the problem. While it may be bad for me personally, as every time a player’s name is leaked I get to write about it, in the end this seems like the court made the right decision.

It really doesn’t matter now who tested positive for PED’s in 2003. I think most baseball fans are tired of this story, and generally assume anyone who put up big numbers in this era was using some form of PED’s. It is a sad reality, but leaking names from an anonymous list is just as distasteful.

This is the first step toward healingthe wounds of the steroids era, and hopefully this ends the talk of the 2003 list. Baseball fans now only care if a player tests positive now.