MLB seek to suspend A-Rod, Ryan Braun, among 20 players

[realmofotalk]

Breaking news on ESPN. The founder of the Biogenesis clinic, Tony Bosch, has agreed to snitch to MLB because (get this) he doesn't want to go to jail.

Major League Baseball might suspend 18 players, including Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Braun as part of Miami investigation - ESPN

The players who might ultimately face discipline from MLB include: Rodriguez, Braun, Cabrera, Colon, Grandal, Nelson Cruz, Francisco Cervelli, Jesus Montero, Jhonny Peralta, Cesar Puello, Fernando Martinez, Everth Cabrera, Fautino de los Santos, Jordan Norberto, and a number of players who are either identified by code names or whose names appear in other documents not obtained by "Outside the Lines." All are currently on major-league rosters but for Puello, a top outfield prospect for the New York Mets who is playing in Class AA Binghamton.

[Hammer]

cervelli, really?

[Tobywan]

This is starting to smell like a witch hunt. With everyone of these “list” investigations MLB’s proclamation of the best anti-doping program of the major sports appears to be a complete farce. There are all these names on lists over the years linked yet the percentage of those that have actually turned up positive during testing has been few and far between at the ML level. Now either the problem isn’t as pervasive as these “lists” make it out or the labs and tests used by MLB are extremely flawed that they are continuously being outsmarted by the dopers and those trying to help them conceal it.

MLB didn’t get any true vindication with Balco, got very little “justice” with Bonds and Clemens They were actually made to look foolish by Arod’s confession of a half-assed attempt at using going undetected along with a failed attempt to prove he got PED’s from convicted Dr. Galea and Braun being cleared by an arbitrator. You have a handful of big names that have either come forward or tested positive like Canseco, McGuire, Palmeiro, Ramirez, Colon and Melky and then of course Arod and Braun who won his case. Though their reps have been tainted whether justly or not there have only been a handful of true punishments handed down either by MLB or the courts. Balco (a company) was flushed out, a personal trainer went to jail but only because he refused to testify, a fired arbitrator but most of the actual fines/suspensions from testing positive have been among minor league players.

So, again with these “lists” that have so many ML players named why are there so few of them actually “caught” in the act? Is it not the big problem as these investigations suggest and this is a witch hunt against a couple of players that have “embarrassed” them or is MLB testing truly this shitty? Does Seilg not understand how inept this process looks when they basically are admitting they are constantly being thwarted by a bunch of ball players and shady chemists????

As for Tony Bosch , it does seem funny that he didn’t change his tune until MLB filed a lawsuit against him and Arod supposedly refused him money. The last thing I want to do is defend Arod, but is he being targeted along with Braun because they have both truly gotten away with it or because they have made Selig and his great anti-steroid crusade look as futile as a cowboy waving a restraining order in the air at the OK Corral? Do you believe Bosch or Arod? Geez, which is more credible the Mob Boss or the hitman?

It is just really hard for me to believe that if these guys are tested as much as they claim for so many years and all the way through the ranks that they could continuously be able to mask it if the testing process were as “reliable” as MLB wants everyone to believe.