Pot Luck

ATI expects to see improved first quarter earnings. The result was a 6% increase in stock price. Its nice to see a tech company looking good, especially a Canadian one.

Pat Hentgen, 1996 Cy Young Award winner, returns to the Blue Jays at the age of 35. Hopefully he can regain some of the poise and power he has been struggling to get back since he left the Jays at the end of 1999. Hentgen's addition gives the Jays two Cy Young winners on their roster. The other is Roy Halladay. Combine that with the AL's second place MVP, Carlos Delgado, and next season has the potential to be a good one.

More baseball news shows MLB is going to have mandatory drug testing. I think all professional sports ought to implement drug testing. While I want to be entertained by great athletes, I don't want to look back at some of the great stars and say to my kids, "That -insert superstar's name here- sure was a great player...but he used some substances that made him great." It taints their accomplishments. I also don't want to look back and have no sympathy for someone that dies at an early age because they used these substances.
Of course the MLB policy is a bit of a joke.

A first positive test results in treatment. Any MLB player testing positive a second time will either be suspended 15 days without pay or fined up to $10,000 US. Suspensions increase to 25 days for a third infraction, 50 days for a fourth and one year for a fifth.

Umm, $10,000 dolars? Some of these guys make more than that in a game. Hardly a deterent.
I think with more and more sports allowing professional athletes to participate in Olympic sports, there are going to be some real problems for some countries whos pros have been using these designer steroids. I think mostly of US basketball and Canadian hockey. I would lay down cash money to bet there are users in both these sports. Careers are lasting longer and the money is so big that the incentive to use these previously undetectable steroids must be huge.