Michael Weiner, the incoming head of the Players Association, and David Ortiz will speak to the media at 12:30 pm today. Here is an advance statement released by Weiner. Two money quotes:
The number of players on the so-called “government list” meaningfully exceeds the number of players agreed by the bargaining parties to have tested positive in 2003. Accordingly, the presence of a player’s name on any such list does not necessarily mean that the player used a prohibited substance or that the player tested positive under our collectively bargained program.
In 2003, legally available nutritional supplements could trigger an initial “positive” test under our program.
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We already know this. Let’s hope they are more specific than that. Good answers will do much to clear this up. Alot of fog will mess it up.
Nuggets from press conference:
Ortiz said he has not used steroids, but has use supplements. No specifics.
Weiner said of this 104 players, only 83 TESTS (not players, as players were tested multiple times) were positive. Also notes that androstendione was tested for but at the time was a perfectly legal test
So why is the MLBPA coming out with this now? Or, to be more precise, whey didn’t they say this before? Like, for instance, when A-Rod’s presence on the list was revealed?
Am I supposed to believe they had this list for six years, and just now figured out that there couldn’t possibly be 103 positives? If true, the PA is a whole lot more incompetent than I thought they were.