Marvin Miller is more responsible than anyone for the rights and privileges that Major League Baseball players enjoy. Before Miller came along, owners truly took advantage of the athletes. Miller leveled the playing field — and then some. Good for him.
But Miller’s off base in his response to the outing of Alex Rodriguez as a steroid cheat.
According to Miller, the Players Association never should have agreed to testing in the first place:
"When (union leaders) agreed on a testing program, I said, 'They're going to regret this, because you're going to see players going to jail.' "
"It's a witch hunt in baseball, for sure …" Miller said.
Two points:
1) Yes, in agreeing to testing, the union cowed to pressure from Congress, but if the union hadn’t, it might well have ended up with congressionally mandated testing — year-round — that's much tougher than what they're stuck with now.
2) What makes a witch hunt a "witch hunt" is the idea that witches don't actually exist. Steroid cheats most certainly do.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3896888
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