Media test positive for Big Dopes

What should be instructive for the media in planning future exposes is that one player (it could be anyone but happened to be Bonds)

• wasn't on the 2003 list. Until his sample was retested,

• at which point he was termed positive.

(NY Times on the news about Ortiz and Ramirez): "Five others have been tied to positive tests from that year: Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Jason Grimsley and David Segui.

• Bonds, baseball’s career home runs leader, was not on the original list,

• although federal agents seized his 2003 sample and

• had it retested. Those results showed

• the presence of steroids, according to court documents."...

"Ortiz and Ramirez said to be on '03 Doping List," NY Times, by Michael S. Schmidt, 7/30/09

• P.S. From the same article:

"The players union issued a statement, saying it could not comment on the matter.

• “The leaking of information under a court seal is a crime,”

Donald M. Fehr, the union’s executive director, said in the statement.

• “The active pursuit of information that may not lawfully be disclosed because it is under court seal

• is a crime.”

The NY Times saves the most interesting piece of the story until the last sentence:

• "In February (2009), he (David Ortiz) said that players who tested positive for steroids
• should be suspended for an entire season — about 100 games more than the current policy requires for a first offense."

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