In some alternate universe, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Manny Ramirez, and David Ortiz, were never publicly linked to testing positive for steroids in 2003. Selena Roberts and Michael S. Schmidt never ran their stories because there were never any crooked lawyers with access to information that was forever to remain confidential. There was also never any story about how the MLBPA dropped the ball on destroying the Survey Test results from 2003, because they would have had time to do so. Countless blogs would have never published a leaked “list” of 104 players that reportedly tested positive as part of the testing in 2003. Instead, there was dull talk about how the joint MLB/MLBPA test in 2003 got us mandatory drug testing starting in 2004, albeit a weak start in the right direction.
In reality, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled yesterday that federal investigators, led by Jeff Novitzky, illegally seized those 2003 test results as part of the BALCO inves...
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