New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez is being lambasted by the media while 103 less prominent players who also tested positive for steroid use still are unknown. Now that the confidentiality of the list has been compromised, there is no reason for the rest of the names to be kept off the record.
It is unfair for a double standard to exist that allows information to be released about a superstar but not an average player. Major League Baseball should be responsible for its oversights during baseball’s “steroid era” by releasing the list.
Once the information is public, players that stayed clean will be vindicated and players whose names appear on the list will finally be responsible for their actions.
Players like Lance Berkman of the Houston Astros and Torii Hunter of the Los Angeles Angels also are asking for full disclosure to separate the clean players from the steroid users. Until Major League Baseball releases the names of the players on the list, every player will be subject to suspicion.
If the list is not released, then in the next 20 years, hall of fame voting will be tainted as well, with players like Rodriguez and Mark McGwire losing out because their use of steroids is known, while others get a free pass from a confidentiality agreement.?
Andrew Kleist
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