July 03, 2002

My view on the issue of testing baseball players for steroids just did a 180. Up until this incident, I thought that ballplayers should get with the program, give up the notion of privacy, and take the test. Now, thanks to Sammy Sosa's appropriate, non-violent but angry, reaction to Rick Reilly's stunt, I now believe that the greater danger lies in allowing self-appointed scolds and sphincters the power to embarass each of us into giving up our privacy. Put it another way, if I were to give Mr. Reilly the address of a local lab where they could test his DNA to see if it matches any of the children recently born in the West San Fernando Valley, would he do so, even if he knew that he was clean.

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