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Tucked away inside the United States attorney's office in the Northern District of California are documents that link more than 100 major league baseball players to positive tests for steroids conducted in 2003. The test results were meant to be anonymous, and a battle over access to them has wound its way through the federal court system. The players union has tried to protect its members by arguing that the government illegally obtained the information. According to a lawyer who spoke on condition of anonymity because the government's plans are supposed to remain confidential, federal authorities will seek to question each of the 104 players about where and how they obtained the substance detected in their urine samples. The authorities then intend to distribute the information they receive to federal prosecutors around the country.

New York Times

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May 18, 2008  09:16 AM ET

Let the legal sites handle stories like this and let this chump fade away. He's out the game now and baseball has moved on without him.

May 18, 2008  09:39 AM ET

Quit wasting money on this cr@p.

May 18, 2008  09:46 AM ET

and all the winks out there agree with the above comments _ move it along fan/scandelnation

May 18, 2008  11:51 AM ET

ahhh MLB is going to have a grrrreat season! I don't know how people could be upset about cheaters getting outed. Player's union is definitely trying to hide something here.

May 18, 2008  11:52 AM ET

they have 104 positive steroids tests and I guarantee if Pudge rodriguez was tested he's screwed

May 18, 2008  11:59 AM ET

nobody cares about a game that turned a blind eye to druggies as their records fell but attendance was booming and money was rolling in.
It was "the show" alright... The Freak Show !

May 18, 2008  12:26 PM ET

Partypimip, tell me about it man. And good let the feds get the information and get to the dealers and suppliers, then nail their arses....

May 18, 2008  12:30 PM ET

This is a huge legal and contractual issue. The agreement for the 2003 season was anonymous testing.

If the feds do have names attached to the tests there has to be a way those names became attached to the tests. If it was from someone at MLB then MLB has violated the agreement with the Player's Union and that could have serious consequences legally.

The anonymous nature of the tests could also bring into question the legitimacy of the results should any legal action come from this. How do we know the names on the test results are accurate? If this was handled in a manner like anonymous testing should be handled there is no name attached to the test, only a number. How do you prove test number 125463 actually came from Player A?

this could turn into a huge legal battle in the future.

May 18, 2008  03:31 PM ET

I think about 110 players that were formally muscle bound and now skinny little punks that suck at baseball now just pissed their pants

May 18, 2008  03:33 PM ET

chapmaja@yahoo.com

I read that they had two companies where one did the test that had a numeric code and the other company had the players name that matched the code so that is how they are able to know whos steriod unrine is whos. I agree there will be a big legal battle but I hope they lose because I hate cheaters

May 18, 2008  04:04 PM ET

I disagree with the "Let's get it over with" opinion. I want them to release the information. I want some of these "knuckleheads" to be exposed as liars.

I love Baseball. I HATE what the "Roiders" have done to Baseball. I wish MLB would have shown some courage and cracked down. And no, don't feed me the line "It's the fan's fault for cheering the home run race." B.S.!

Canseco as the only honest man?!?!?!?!?!?!?! What's wrong with that picture?

May 18, 2008  04:05 PM ET

STEROIDS IN BASEBALL!!! My God what a revelation. Cant you guys find something interesting to write about at SI.

May 18, 2008  06:00 PM ET

Barry Bonds is the face of steroids in MLB and he is the home run king who nobody wants... what does that tell you?
The Giants milked him for fans for years and now no longer sees him as an asset, so he is tossed aside.
Not to mention he is said to be the "Teamate From Hell" !

May 18, 2008  11:50 PM ET

i guess anonymous testing isn't so anonymous if there are names attached to each sample.

May 19, 2008  01:24 AM ET

Yes Barry is the face of flaxssed oil in baseball s is his fellow denier (new word..kinds like "he misremembered") Roger The rocket. The fact these two clowns hold so many records really sucks...kinda like Brady andersons 52 home run season. The fact no caught on after that is in the words of Kelly Bundy "mind wobbleing".....

May 19, 2008  10:58 AM ET

Just release the names to the public where they belong...this isn't worthy of CIA-type protection....

May 19, 2008  03:13 PM ET

there are many many jobs that require 'anonymous' drug testing -- why do not people care about this terribly invasive violation of the right to privacy just because it involves baseball players? social security numbers were supposed to be for social security and income tax purposes only, and income tax records were supposed to be private and confidential. why are people so willing to surrender their privacy and freedoms? or do we all just assume that it's only 'the other guy' whose privacy is being violated? "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them ...." -- Frederick Douglass, August 3, 1857

 
May 19, 2008  04:18 PM ET

Good, this way we will know all of the users, not like the phony Mitchell report,where he didn't any red sox

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