Ask DrewDevil your legal questions

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Define semantics.

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Semantics is the art and science of implausibly arguing that Barry Bonds never used steroids.

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Drew, I got a legal question...serious question:

I signed a uniform player contract with an MLB team in 1995. It did not contain any mention of steroids being illegal.

I was also issued a copy of the MLB CBA as a condition of my admittance into the MLBPA, and in it, it outlined banned substances, but steroids were not among them.

I also attended mandatory briefings on the MLB drug preventaion policy, and was issued a listing of banned substances and intialed my agreement to it, and steroids were not listed as banned.

My MLB career ended in 1999.

Recently, people are telling me that steroids were banned during my short MLB career on the basis of a memo in 1991 that I was never shown nor told about, and despite it not being a condition of any of the contracts, nor it ever being mentioned to me during that time.

How was I supposed to know, and would that be considered in effect, despite all the contracts and rules stated saying otherwise?