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Major League Baseball and the players union have tentatively agreed to have an outside administrator oversee baseball’s drug-testing program.

The overseer would be appointed to serve for a set period of time and would have protections from dismissal, according to the report. The tentative agreement comes as baseball and its players union continue to work on adopting the recommendations of ex-Sen. George Mitchell’s report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport. In that report, Mitchell said baseball’s anti-drug program needed more independence and year-round testing, echoing the concerns of anti-doping experts about MLB’s drug testing policy.

Players and owners would be toughening drug rules for the third time since their initial agreement in August 2002. The sides also made changes in January 2005, when sanctions for first offenders were instituted, and in November 2005, when the penalty for an initial positive test was increased from 10 days to 50 games. All right so baseball is almost there…at least there showing signs of improvement and seem to be actually trying to clean up the game. Slowly but surely they will get it right I think.

But they will never fully eliminate steriods from the game…it just cant happen. There will always be players out there who want to cheat the system and try to get the upper hand anyway possible. But with the steps MLB is taking I think that they are on the right track to coming clean. Like I said though and have been saying for a while now…IT WILL TAKE TIME!

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