I’m not a strawman.

Never said anything about who did or did not use steriods or whether I believed they did or did not. My comment was about due process, the right to negotiate working conditions and freedom of choice. If you believe that owners or anyone for that matter, have the right to impose arbitrary working conditions whatever the rationale then you don’t believe in democracy. If the members of a union cannot agree on a course of action, then the Executive Director doesn’t have the right to impose a view. BTW has Fehr ever stated his views on PED’s publicly. For all we know he may have been against but that is not his job to advocate for one faction of the union over another.

The division in the ranks of ballplayers was supposedly (according to “Game of Shadows”), the reason Bonds started doping. He was a better ballplayer (true) but was pissed that McGuire and Sosa were getting all the love. I guess he showed them what PEDs could really do in the hands of a true “genius”. He would have hit 80 if they had pitched to him. LOL

For the record, I believe McGuire, Bonds, Sosa, Clemens, Caminetti et al used PEDS. It was their deal with the devil and their health. Steriod use by adults is not a public health issue. In athletics, it’s a competitive issue and that’s why there are rules and collective bargaining.

Also, don’t stop with the 70′s and steriods. Amphetamine use was rampant during the 60′s and 70′s. Nobody says too much about that.

BTW OJ did it. It was just an incompetent investigation and prosecution. If they had done their jobs, they wouldn’t have needed to embellish the facts and leaving the door open for Mr. Cochrane to walk through.

Were you out there with OJ searching the golf courses of the world for the real killers? Do you really believe that Bonds, Sosa and Mac really got that big by lifting weights in the abbreviated offseason?

Would you like some Florida swampland or the Brooklyn Bridge? Maybe you would have believed Neville Chamberlain’s statement that there would be peace in his times after Munich.

Look at the health (or lack of) of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970′s, or check out Gene Upshaw, Lyle Alzado, Flojo, etc. How can you possibly believe that the hogwash about right to privacy outweighs health issues? Even Donald Fehr has backed off and said that it was probably a mistake.

Donald Fehr did a heck of job in maintaining a union during the age of Reagan. He raised salaries and resisted claims from owners who “never made any money”.

Don’t let the press of the hook. They knew what was going on and they choose not to investigate or report it. Everybody was happy and making money. No revisionist history please.

People have the right to be idiots until they mutually agree to stop. You don’t have to pay to watch. If you do, it’s just entertainment.

BTW Fehr and Marvin Miller should be in the Hall of Fame. It just shows what jerks the sportswriter are.

I have no sympathy for the players. They chose “union solidarity” over drug testing by following Fehr and Orza instead of going public with their views. if any of them had balls, they would have gone public and said that they support the union and its leadership on everything but drug testing, but not one of them had the guts.