Jody Gerut, at his weblog, argues why baseball's steroids policy shouldn't be beefed up:

The point of most contention is that the first time you test positive, your identity is concealed. Personally, I like the idea that if by chance a player tests positive the first time he has a chance to correct it before his identity is made known, and I don't believe this is clandestine, sneaky, or underhanded in any way. I don't take steroids, but I do take a number of vitamin and protein supplements in order to make sure I'm getting enough nutrients. If by chance one of these supplements is creating an anabolic effect causing me to test positive, I want to have the chance to show the designated doctors all of my supplements to determine which one is creating the false positive. That way I can either throw it out or if the test itself is flawed they can reassess the test before anything is made public. Consider what happens to me if on the first try I test positive and that information is made available to everyone. Everything that I have worked for in my career is now tainted with this false positive. All the weight training, mental training, visual training, education, preparatory work with defense, offense, my reputation, everything... thousands and thousands of hours of work- gone in an instant. And even if I am later cleared of any wrongdoing and it is decided that I did not violate the spirit of the rules, that accusation would follow me forever, even after I was done playing the game.

Quite frankly, I don't need that stress.

We could go to Olympic testing standards. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sounds good, right? It sounded good to me until I heard it like this: 365 days means that every time you go to your uncle's house, or to a movie, or to a bar, or to church, or if you are sound asleep in your own bed, a knock on your door can come at any time of the day for you to be tested. And if you are not home they will come and find you whereever you are and force you to test. They even go as far as making you register when you leave your hometown and for any reason, be it Thanksgiving at a family member's house, and weekend in South Beach, or a safari in Africa. They will find you if your number is called. Still sound good to you? No, it didn't sound good to me either after it was put to me this way.

I think Gerut is probably overstating the privacy intrustions on 365-days-a-year testing, but he does have a point about not releasing the player's name on a single test result. Read the whole thing.

(Link via Clutch Hits).