Court rules samples seized from steroids testing can be used [baseball players]

AP ^ | Dec 27 2006

[george wythe]

A federal appeals court has ruled that evidence seized from Major League Baseball's steroids testing labs can be used by the government in its investigation of performance enhancing drugs.

The ruling today involves computer results of urine samples that were seized as part of the government's investigation into illegal steroid use among professional athletes.

[snip]

The results were to be kept secret and most of the samples were destroyed.

But the labs stopped destroying the samples when the grand jury demanded access to the results from ten players. When authorities raided the labs for those samples, they seized all the remaining samples as well.

[rhombus]

Uh oh, there goes another Word's Series.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Time for Bonds to go yard. Prison yard.

[hkp123]

Sounds like a player's strike in '07

[edcoil]

The unions forced the keeping secret this information as they demand fans pay outrageous fortunes to watch drug addicts to play a game.

[Dinsdale]

What is this 'baseball' you talk about, I've never heard of it!

Is it something like the girls game 'rounders'?

[gov_bean_ counter]

You hit a ball with a stick and run around in a circle. Sounds exciting, eh?

[Mark was here]

I can not understand why the government is even remotely concerned about this. The rules for playing Baseball are up to the promoter of the game, just as different acts in a circus are assigned to the various rings by the circus promoter. If the public wants to enjoy either show, they can purchase their tickets. If someone wants to use steroids before sticking his head in the lions mouth, fine I could care less. If another performer wants to use steroids before swinging his bat, same thing, I really do not care.

For taxpayer funds to be used fretting over a performance in an entertainment show, is an insult to taxpayers. If folks don't like the way the promoters staged a circus, they should find another circus.

[blackie]

Bravo Zulu, brother!!

[nothingnew]

What does the gubbmint have to do with professional athletes?

How about drug/alcohol checks for all the senators and congressmen (oops, congresspersons)? Huh?

Why are taxpayer dollars being wasted on this when so many "elected officials" get away with screwing us day after day?

I'm going to vote them all out!...."yeah...that's the ticket..."

FEH!

FMCDH(BITS)

[nothingnew]

Exactly. See#10.

FMCDH(BITS)

[traditional1]

"If folks don't like the way the promoters staged a circus, they should find another circus."

Okay, how about all the performance records that were broken by the drug-addicted "entertainers" of today?

Is it appropriate that the "NEW" records of these non-natural "performers" should supplant those of players who were working only with their God-given natural talent?

[Mark was here]

Is it appropriate that the "NEW" records of these non-natural "performers" should supplant those of players who were working only with their God-given natural talent?

God and the rest of the fans are going to have to put some asterisks in their record books.

This is a burden for the fans to express their displeasure with in the market place, it is not a mater for the government to be setting the rules for a game.

Could Congress pass a law demanding that any bowler who gets more than 8 pins gets to score 10?

[traditional1]

Let's see: if you break Federal laws, the Federal Government doesn't get to prosecute you; is that your argument?????

[Mark was here]

Let's see: if you break Federal laws, the Federal Government doesn't get to prosecute you; is that your argument?????

Try again. The Federal Government has no business regulating the play of a game. If fans do not like the way the game goes, they can spend their money elsewhere. If a player steals second base, the government should not charge the player with a felony, (as long as he puts it back).

[xrp]

Whew, I sure am glad the .GOV is spending taxpayer monies on this endeavour.

[traditional1]

Try again.

If players use illegal substances, on OR off the field, they are subject to penalties under all available laws.

Sport of choice is not an issue; law is.

[Mark was here]

If players use illegal substances, on OR off the field, they are subject to penalties under all available laws.

Steroid use is legal, if the Promoters do not want their actors to use steroids, it should be in their contracts.

Steroids do have legitimate uses, and help people. They should not be made illegal because it messes up some silly record book.

[traditional1]

"Steroids are illegal in the United States unless prescribed by a doctor for a known medical condition. But they are easily obtained, most commonly over the counter at pharmacies in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Former major leaguer Chad Curtis, who retired after last season, estimated that 40 to 50 percent of major league ballplayers use steroids -- sometimes supplemented with joint-strengthening human growth hormone -- to suddenly become stronger and faster.

Illegal steroid use (aka, "not prescribed by a doctor for a known medical condition") IS ILLEGAL. Now, with anyone easily finding a "doctor" to prescribe (ILLEGALLY) for pure performance enhancement and then denying its illegality is purely Clintonian.

Promoters IN BASEBALL have not been able to ban steroids for two reasons: UNIONS and MONEY.

To claim the use by athletes of steroids is "legal" is to ignore common sense.

[mcg2000]

Ummmmmmmmm ...... illegal drug traffic within our borders?