Rocker: "I failed drug test in 2000"

John Rocker is back in the news and he threw Commissioner Bud Selig under the bus during an interview on Atlanta station 680 AM.

During the interview, Rocker claims he failed a drug test ordered by Major League Baseball in 2000 and that Bud Selig "didn't do anything about it." He also says that during his 2002 season with the Rangers, management doctors pulled himself, A-Rod and Rafael Palmeiro aside and told them how to take steroids.

Though Rocker didn't identify the doctors by name, this is what he's claiming they told the 3 players.

"Look guys, if you take one kind of steroid, you don't triple stack them and take them 10 months out of the year like Lyle Alzado did. If you do it responsibly, it's not going to hurt you."

Congress wants to meet with Clemens on Jan. 26th

According to an AP report, Roger Clemens was asked to appear in front of congress, in regards to the Mitchell Report, on January 26th.

Letters were sent to Clemens, Brian McNamee and 3 others on Friday by Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Republican Tom Davis.

Part of the letter to Clemens said the following, "The committee asks that you provide testimony about allegations in Senator George Mitchell's report ... that you and other Major League Baseball players used performance enhancing drugs during your professional baseball career."

I'm not saying that Clemens did take steroids or HGH, but if he did and he admitted as much after the story broke, would the story be as big as it is now? Would the media still be asking Clemens about it, would there have been a "60 Minutes" interview? I guess we'll never know.

Bud Selig receives extension through 2012

In an executive council meeting on Wednesday, and ratified today by the collective owners on Thursday, Bud Selig will have his contract extended through 2012.

I'm not sure if that comes as a surprise to me or not. At times, he seems nothing more than a pawn for the Player's Association and the players themselves. I guess we'll see how the next 4 years go.

Instant Replay for baseball to be discussed

Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News had an article out back in November, and I'm just getting a chance to read it now.

The article is about Major League Baseball adopting Instant Replay. I've gone back and forth with this idea for awhile now. On one hand, if it's used ONLY on disputed home run calls, then I don't think it's such a bad thing, but how many of those do we see per game, not even an average of 1?

The bad side of adopting this idea is, where does it stop? Soon, managers want instant replays on close plays at home, 1st, stolen bases, did he tag up..where does it end at that point? Once you institute it, there are going to be new conversations at the end of each season on what else you can use it for. Now, I love the game of baseball, I attend 8-12 San Diego Padre games a year, but imagine how much longer games could be with Instant Replay added?

Yeah, my point exactly.