Bud Selig Thinks Feds Seizing Results Somehow Drags MLB Drug Testing
Another story on steroids, blah, blah…
Baseball’s drug-testing program was threatened when federal prosecutors seized player records and samples four years ago, baseball commissioner Bud Selig said in a letter to Congress that was released yesterday.
The seizure of the 2003 test results jeopardized the program’s confidentiality and caused a delay in the start of testing in 2004, Selig and union head Donald Fehr told Reps. Henry Waxman and Tom Davis, leaders of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
“Major League players faced the realistic prospect of criminal prosecution based on evidence from a drug test that they were promised would be anonymous,” Selig wrote in his letter from last Friday, which was hand-delivered to the committee. “The seizure undermined representations made to players that drug testing records generally would be confidential. … It is no exaggeration to say that the seizure threatened the continued viability of the entire drug-testing program.”
The legality of the government’s seizure is under dispute. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld the government’s actions, reaffirming a decision it made in December 2006. But the entire 9th Circuit has been asked to rehear the case, which could wind up before the Supreme Court.
Baseball, just do what is expected and move on from this…
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