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NEW YORK (AP) - Baseball commissioner Bud Selig insisted Wednesday that baseball's current drug-testing program was working, saying the reason he proposed even tougher rules last month was to stop suspicion.
"Just the impugning of one's integrity and the sport's integrity is something that we just can't allow," Selig said after owners unanimously endorsed his plan. "Is it unfair? Yeah, I believe it is unfair, but we have to do something about it so we quit talking about it."
Selig's steroids proposal, made to the union last month, calls for a 50-game ban for first offenders, a 100-game penalty for second offenders and a lifetime ban for a third positive test. It also would penalize use of amphetamines and have an outside expert run the program.
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