Damon: Drug-test leaking is a bitter pill

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  And the Yankees continue to support an admitted drug-user...

  I love how, instead of addressing the problem, they get mad about privacy issues.  I'm still frustrated, as a fan, that those first tests are private.  If I failed a drug test at work, it sure as hell wouldn't be private. 

  Posted 5/24/2007 [reply] [flag]

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N.Y. Daily News: Damon: Drug-test leaking is a bitter pill
Published 5/24/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
... N.Y. Daily News: Damon: Drug-test leaking is a bitter pill And Mike Myers makes his headchoppingly pleasence known Mike Myers, one of the highest-ranking players on the MLB Players Association s executive board, believes that if Giambi actually did fail an amphetamine test, the fact that it was leaked is a serious problem for the players. If there is a leak here, then nothing is ever anonymous anymore in any agreement that we do, Myers said. If (the story) is true, then there should be heads that get chopped. Whether it came out of MLB, from the drug-testing place. ... If there was a leak and there s any ounce of truth to this, someone should be fired.

Yanks Damon: Major League Baseball is failing at this drug test
Published 5/24/2007 by Ben Maller at Ben Maller's Sports Rumors & Notes
... The source of the Yankee players ire was the fact that the test result - which is supposed to be confidential according to the agreement between Major League Baseball and the players union - was leaked to begin with. "It's very upsetting because I guess anybody on the street can make the claim that (Giambi) tested positive," Johnny Damon said. "It's supposed to be anonymous, and I think Major League Baseball is failing at this drug test. That's pretty much it." Giambi is the second player to have his anonymous test revealed, joining Barry Bonds. Damon was annoyed that the two players, who were both prominent figures in the BALCO controversy, were subjected to scrutiny over something that was supposed to remain sealed. Said Damon: "It doesn't seem like the guidelines of the drug testing is being done correctly when anybody can go around and leak something t

Bronx Banter: Exhale
Published 5/24/2007 at Bronx Banter
... yesterday, then was tight-lipped about what went on when confronted about the meeting later by reporters. It's official:

Who Leaked Jason Giambi's Drug Test Result?
Published 5/24/2007 by Matt Watson at FanHouse
... . Meanwhile, a lot of players are sitting in the clubhouse asking, "who the hell are all these sources in the first place?" From the NY Daily News : Mike Myers, one of the highest-ranking players on the MLB Players Association's executive board, believes that if Giambi actually did fail an amphetamine test, the fact that it was leaked is a serious problem for the players. "If there is a leak here, then nothing is ever anonymous anymore in any agreement that we do," Myers said. "If (the story) is true, then there should be heads that get chopped. Whether it came out of MLB, from the drug-testing place. ... If there was a leak and there's any ounce of truth to this, someone should be fired." I completely agree. The only reason the owners and the players were able to hammer out a drug policy that satisfied both sides was because the players were promised a c