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The recent allegations about Sammy Sosa reportedly taking performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) reinforces one thing for the MLB - that the 21 century has not been good for baseball.

The notorious list of 104 MLB players that admitted to taking PEDs has been in the news for seemingly ages. The question is who is in possession of this list of 104 players?

It's ironic that only two names have been released. Both names belong to players that are significant to baseball. Alex Rodriguez was supposed to be the savior of baseball amidst all the Barry Bonds allegations and Sammy Sosa is one of six elite players to hit more than 600 home runs.

Now they became a part of the plague that haunts the Major Leagues incessantly.

The results of the urine samples taken were meant to be anonymous under the agreement between the commissioner's office and the players association. Major League Baseball coded the results and stored them in two different labs, so that both lists were required in order to determine which results belonged to what player.

In 2004, a search warrant served by the feds in both locations changed that.

They were only supposed to be looking for names connected to their Balco investigation, but confiscated the entire report. That means there are two organizations with knowledge of the guilty: 1) Major League officials who administered the exam, and 2) the feds who investigated the Balco case.

MLB would not put themselves in a predicament by incriminating themselves, so that leaves the Federal Government responsible.......

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