Wednesday, December 22, 2004
John Rosenthal has an interesting proposal about performancing enhancing drugs in baseball that might work applied to all sports: voluntary testing. "Voluntary testing skirts the privacy issue. Any player who volunteers for steroid testing isn’t giving up his Fourth Amendment rights: He’s pleading his innocence to fans who already presume him guilty. There wouldn’t even be any punishment for refusing to take the test, or even for taking the test and failing. Except in the court of public opinion.... To prevent cheating, a steroid test would have to be administered as often as once a week. ....Voluntary testing, by contrast, allows the players to take responsibility for their own actions. They’ve been sneaking around the clubhouse for long enough. It’s time for them to step up to the plate."
