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Posted By: davidcycleback

The problem is it was (and still is) the players' own union, a union that works at the behest and vote of the players, that has prevented drug test of players-- and, thus, promoted its use. The union is still against testing for HGH. So if there is any fan anger, frustration, iffy rumors, bad accusations, not believing players regular' denials, the players can blame themselves as much as anyone for this environment. Players' inevitable denials or excuses after testing postive, hardly give fans and the press reason to trust them.

What Marion Jones showed us is that an athlete can never test positive (in an sport the test much more and harder than baseball), deny it for years and still have used steroids. Jones has made it a whole lot harder on athletes who deny and say stuff like "I never failed a test." Whether fair or unfair, fans and the press are going to say, "Marion Jones never failed a test either."