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2009 will celebrate the young player

By Peter Gammons

Saturday, January 3, 2009

During the 2008 ALCS, a Red Sox player said, "I've had to use a cup five times in the last three weeks. Drug-tested five times in three weeks -- imagine if I had hit anything! I know the system is random, I know they're serious, I'm actually glad they're doing it. But I'm the wrong guy to be tested." He laughed, but in baseball's post-Canseco, post-BALCO, post-Mitchell world, the game is different. The game cannot escape its past, not as long as Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds remain media fixati ...

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