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Sanchez's suspension not horrible for the game

By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

Sunday, April 3, 2005

NEW YORK -- On one hand, the announcement of Alex Sanchez's suspension could not come at a worse time, obscuring an Opening Day that was supposed to be all about the Red Sox and Yankees. But maybe that's the way baseball needs it anyway. Bud Selig, the commissioner, insisted at the March 17 congressional hearing that the sport's new steroid testing system was a great improvement, and that merely time was needed to show that it works. Now the first cheater has been caught; no one can say the sys ...

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