Official arguing about caffine thread

[manbearpig]

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Unannounced? Did you not read the article about the testers requesting parking passes from the teams the day before tests? Would that not signal you to flush your system.


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Oh, it was written in an article, so it must be true.

Jesus Christ

Until you realize that HPAC members go to games and then may select a 2-3 different players to test at any given time prior to gametime, on the spot. Given that the work all through the season, and at most there can only be 15 games on any given day, most of the time less, it wouldn't exactly be rocket science to deduce they just might be at the park on any given day.

Do you really think teams alert all 50 players at the game that the day before, they heard HPAC might be in town?

Do you really think the players can "flush their system" in a day?

Do you really think this is happenening on each of the 10-15 visits HPAC makes during each of a given players games?

Do you realize that even if you only assumed one HPAC team was in operation, their is at least a 1/15th chance that they will be at the park that night?

Did you know that their is far more than one HPAC collection team?

Or, do you just base everything on "the article you read" that was critical of testing?


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The bottom line is the policy has no real teeth. There are obviously ways to circumvent it. Anyway, I really dont care.

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How can you comment on a policy that you apparently know nothing about? Just an hour ago you were saying it would be good if they tested all the players, and asserted that they didn't.

Except that they do.

Oops...

In 2003, when they instituted testing, many in the media proclaimed a moral victory and proclaimed that Bonds had "no where to hide"....and I predicted back then he would test out clean, and then they would naturally turn their attention to criticizing the testing policy as being "easy to beat" rather than being objective and realistic about it.

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How do you know all this? Prove it. I want video of HPAC guys at every single game and I want to see them in the clubhouse watching dudes piss.

Cant come up with that? Then how do you know what they do? You read it somewhere. Which is fine. Just dont double standard me.