More on baseball's drugs problem

This is from Dave Anderson at the NY Times. He wrote this last week before this week's revelations (which were, apparently, not all that revealing - more affirming). I cannot believe how lax baseball is and that they've known that this was a potential problem for a LONG time.

The media, too, took its eye off the ball.

For years, the American sports media was so adept at ridiculing Olympic cheats, the fancy runners and Bulgarian weight lifters, while worshipping at the altar of the sport stitched into its psyche. When the Associated Press columnist Steve Wilstein produced a comprehensive work on Mark McGwire's use of the steroid-acting supplement androstenedione, he was assailed not only by most of baseball but also by many in the sports media. Didn't this muckraker know that drugs don't help you hit a curveball?

Feeling duped for years, an angry sports media mob now smells blood, although there remains a segment that believes this story is largely about political correctness, an exercise in futility because many fans, perhaps even a majority, haven't seemed to care, as long as the ball has been soaring 450 feet.

Maybe we've all been in denial, but the time for REAL action is now. No more nonsense about treatment centers. We need blood tests and real punishments.