Baseball Commissioner player Jason Giambi talked steroids yesterday. Story here at the New York Daily News. Commissioner Giambi outlined a plan to deal with the growing rumors of steroid and anabolic use in his sport. Giambi admitted the use of anabolics cheats the game. He also devised a plan to release information about juicing in MLB:
For the last four years, Jason Giambi has been the one BALCO defendant who didn't deny to the grand jury that he ever used steroids or human growth hormone, but yesterday, he went a step further.
Giambi said he believes Major League Baseball should have apologized long ago for its widespread drug problem.
"I was wrong for doing that stuff," Giambi admitted to USA Today before the Yankees played the White Sox yesterday. "What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'"
Commissioner Giambi further talked about past mistakes and how to move on:
"We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. ... Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it."
What a refreshing and honest look at baseball's steroid era from a progressive new commissioner...
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