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Scott Soshnick wrote in his article that steroid reporters deserve better fate than jail. I agree with Mr. Soshnick that the book by the San Francisco Chronice reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, “The Game of Shadows” was good for the public, for baseball and sports in general, but I would disagree with him that reporters deserve better than jail.

What the San Francisco Chronicle reporters did was forced Major League Baseball to address the issue of steriod use. It forced Congress to look at the problem more seriously. But sports and steriod use was not a “dirty little secret” as Mr. Soshnick have alluded to in his article. Everybody knows or at least have suspected that steriod use is rampant in sports. I’ve known and suspected it for years. What Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams did was just validated it for baseball. Yes, I agree, it is good for baseball, for the public and sports in general.

But it comes with a price. Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams knew this before releasing their book. They knew leaking grand jury testimony is against the law. This is where I have a problem. Why break the law? No one is above the law. Reporters are not above the law. Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams knew the risks and it was a risk they were willing to take. It is what it is. It’s the law of the land whether fair or unfair. Calling timeout in the middle of the game doesn’t work. Sorry, they won’t get any sympathy from me.

Regarding steriods: steriod testing is a cat-and-mouse game. Players and drug companies are always going to be one step ahead of drug testing. There will be undetectable drugs as soon as drug screeners standardize on drug test. Drug testing procedures have to constantly adapt to newer and undetectable drugs. Balco is gone, but a dozen of drug companies will step up to the plate. Unfortunately, that is the state of the sporting world that we live in.

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