Finally, some good news on steroids

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association announced today that they have reached agreement on a tougher steroid policy.

The new policy provides for a 50-game suspension for the first positive test, a 100-game suspension for the second, and a lifetime ban for the third. The old policy provided for 10, 30, and 60-day suspensions for the first, second, and third positive tests. A lifetime ban was possible only after the fifth positive test.

Although it took too long to get to this point, this is a very positive development that hopefully will help baseball get out of its current steroid quagmire. There will still be doubt about players taking steroids that currently are undetectable, but I'm not sure there is a whole lot baseball can do about that now.