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Did MLB give feds bad drug facts?

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The accuracy of the picture provided by Commissioner Bud Selig, his deputy Rob Manfred and the players union's executive director, Donald Fehr, about how drug testing was conducted has come into question. The committee's chairman, Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, has said he is troubled, and the committee's staff is planning to send letters to Selig and Fehr seeking answers to what Waxman has called "misinformation." At the heart of the issue is the fact that the committee was not told that the 2004 testing, with its significantly lower positive test results, had been partly shut down for much of that season, what Selig's office later called an emergency response to an unforeseen situation. Specifically, the shutdown arose from the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroid ring. As a result, players who apparently tested positive in 2003 were not retested in 2004 until the final weeks of the season, and might have been notified beforehand, perhaps skewing the overall test numbers for that year.

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June 8, 2008  11:00 PM ET
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Bud Selig is a liar, a crook, and a spineless piece of trash. And that's his good points.

June 8, 2008  11:06 PM ET
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The new York Times rag does it again, this bull **** will never end....But if this is true, I can't support the commissioner's office and MLB. It's all about the money guys and girls. let's face it.

 
June 9, 2008  10:59 AM ET
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Seilg is more to blame for the rise in steroid and HGH use than Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Roger Clemens combined.

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