New Steroid Agreement?

[Fishercat]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2224832

WASHINGTON -- Major League Baseball players and owners agreed to toughen penalties for steroid use to a 50-game suspension for a first failed test and a lifetime ban for a third, The Associated Press learned.

The deal, which also adds testing for amphetamines, was described to the AP by two congressional aides on condition of anonymity because it had not been officially announced.

A formal announcement was planned for later Tuesday, a baseball official told the AP.

[Foster]

This is just the start, I can see things getting really messy.

[General]

About the damn time.

[McKain]

No more amphetamines should be a nice change and should eliminate a huge amount of the cheating from the game.

Nice to see this happen.

[A'sDiehard]

First of all, which no-name scrub will be the first sacrificial lamb? Second, there's no way the all too-powerful players union will let this slide. I agree, this is going to get ugly.

No more greenies?

[DirtyKash]

Wrong, the player's union is supposedly going to approve this any time now. They're very much in favor of it.

[A'sDiehard]

They're very much in favor of it.

Sure they are. :l

[love_that_reefer]

Player's Union has no other choice but to accept this deal. They have to do whatever it takes before Congress steps in and really ****s them up good. Getting amphetamines out of the game is a HUGE step because more players were doing this than steroids according to Tony Gwynn.