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With Major League Baseball officials planning to push for blood testing for human growth hormone next season, there is no guarantee it will pass with the players association. Two veteran Rockies players - relievers Matt Herges and LaTroy Hawkins - provided a glimpse Thursday about why the issue will be the subject of intense debate before making it into the collective bargaining agreement. Both want the sport clean, but predicted the union would proceed with caution.

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Bud Selig, AP Bud Selig, AP
September 14, 2007  11:35 AM ET

Bud looks like someone just probed his cornshoot

September 14, 2007  11:41 AM ET

That picture practically screams, "What! Me worry?"

Wow, the union will go to great lengths to protect the dirty portion of its membership? I'm shocked. It's about time for the clean players, (hell are there any?) to stand up and take back their union.

Who among them will be the peoples champion to bring the game back to us, the fans?

I'll wager that the MLBPA will try to collectively bludgeon this to death, Bud Selig will cry secretly to Congress, and then some half-arsed plan will be hatched that will cause an anonymous test period where if more than 82% of players test positive, a mandatory testing program will begin the following year..... Deja Vu.

September 14, 2007  11:42 AM ET

That picture practically screams, "What! Me worry?"

Wow, the union will go to great lengths to protect the dirty portion of its membership? I'm shocked. It's about time for the clean players, (hell are there any?) to stand up and take back their union.

Who among them will be the peoples champion to bring the game back to us, the fans?

I'll wager that the MLBPA will try to collectively bludgeon this to death, Bud Selig will cry secretly to Congress, and then some half-arsed plan will be hatched that will cause an anonymous test period where if more than 82% of players test positive, a mandatory testing program will begin the following year..... Deja Vu.

September 14, 2007  01:30 PM ET

Zwitek must have loved that deja vu posting.

September 14, 2007  01:30 PM ET

Zwitek must have loved that deja vu posting.

September 14, 2007  01:36 PM ET

As did you! LOL Piss tests for everyone!! YAY!!!

September 14, 2007  01:50 PM ET

Irony is a beautiful thing. :)

September 14, 2007  04:12 PM ET

They need hair samples & blood-tests taken to prove they are clean. And if you aren't cleared to play you don't play until you have been & if you refuse you don't play. Either the MLB Players agree to it or Congress forces them to. Congress should have done it initially & not allowed MLB to handle it w/o any teeth!! The athletes that are against it are only hiding behind the union. Similar to when Sammy Sosa was asked to take a drug test & he said that he would do it on the spot, but after someone got in his ear & he declined to oblige the response & thereafter claimed he couldn't speak English.. how convenient!!

September 14, 2007  06:17 PM ET

I'm shocked. Shocked.

 
September 17, 2007  10:36 AM ET

Congress shouldn't even be involved. We have more important things affecting the state of affairs in this country than illegal drug use in sports.

If a gov't agency needs to be involved, lessee....FBI? DEA? These are ILLEGAL DRUGS being abused. Seems they would have more jurisdiction than a bunch of codgerly old white men with their thumbs up their rear ends. (Insert Sen. Craig joke here)

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