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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5060079, member: 71"] To be completely fair, MLB's [B][I]drug testing[/I][/B] has always been a joke and in all candor, with only a couple of exceptions (where news leaked outside of what they could control, forcing some suspensions) they caught only who they wanted to catch, less than significant players who by being suspended allowed the MLB to claim "[I]we are punishing cheaters[/I]!". The highest profile suispension, Alex Rodriguez, wasn't caught by failing an MLB drug test but from the fallout of a federal investigation of a Miami medical lab (Biogenesis). One high profile player (Ryan Braun), who's name leaked when it was intended to be buried (from MLB's subsequnt actions) ended up with a shortened suspension as for some reason, chain of custody of the sample was broken. MLB likes to claim they are serious but in reality they don't want their biggerer names sitting out partial or full seasons. I still am stunned by the overall stupidity of the entiretly of MLB players being warned well in advance of the annonymous testing, being told that if the positives exceeded 5% then mandatory testing would begin the following year, yet they exceeded the players testing positive by nearly triple (13%). [/QUOTE]