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 NEW YORK (AP) - Bud Selig wants to stop the steroids debate in baseball. While he insisted the sport's current drug-testing program was working, the baseball commissioner said he proposed even tougher rules last month in order to end suspicion.
"Just the impugning of one's integrity and the sport's integrity is something that we just can't allow," Selig said Wednesday 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-time offenders, a 100-game penalty for second-time offenders and a lifetime ban for a third positive test. It also would penalize the use of amphetamines and have an outside expert run the program.
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