Union Head Donald Fehr Says Steroid Problem Is 'Fixed'

Odds are if you're reading this site, you're aware of the fact that on Wednesday afternoon first pitches will be thrown all over Arizona and Florida. Yes, the Spring Training schedule gets under way tomorrow with 16 games, and I couldn't be happier about it. Now baseball fans can focus on the battle for the fifth spot in their team's rotation instead of who is or who isn't doing steroids.

Besides, there's no reason to worry about steroids anymore anyway. Just ask the head of the players union, Donald Fehr. He'll gladly tell you that there is no problem, for it has been fixed.

"Everybody understands that there were things which happened in the early part of the decade, which we wish hadn't, that that's not the case anymore," Fehr said Monday at the Florida Marlins' camp in Jupiter, Fla., the first stop on his annual tour of spring training sites.

"We fixed the problem and we need to look forward, as (commissioner) Bud (Selig) has said many times.

"So far as I know, there is not a hint or suggestion that there is anything inappropriate or that it's not functioning right or that it isn't doing the job in 2005, '06, '07 or '08," Fehr added. "And somehow that gets lost in what I can basically call the sensationalism around what happened five years ago."

No doubt Fehr said this while standing on the deck of an aircraft carrier with a Mission Accomplished banner hanging in the background.

While Fehr has a point about the fact that MLB has taken the right steps to help eliminate steroids from the game, to say that the problem has been "fixed" is probably a little premature, no?