This Bud's for you

Finally, after two half-hearted efforts, baseball commissioner Bud Selig has come up with a drugs testing policy proposal that sounds serious. Three strikes and you're out!

1. First offense - 50 games suspension
2. Second offense - 100 games suspension
3. Third offense - lifetime ban.

Selig also proposes more random tests and wants to turn over the testing to the World Anti-doping Agency.

If the players union makes a big effort to water down this policy then they are doing a great disservice to the interests of the union's members.

I like this article by Larry Sloane of the Seattle Times who says, "To fans, Bud Selig remains the most polarizing man in sports — they either loathe him, or they hate him". Too true, but as Sloane says Selig has been forced onto the moral high ground.