MLB should apologize for steroids in baseball - Giambi

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

CHICAGO, United States (AFP) — New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi said Major League Baseball should have apologized long ago for the sport's widespread drug problem, USA Today reported Wednesday.

USA Today quoted Giambi as saying that an apology for the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball is long overdue.

"What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said, 'We made a mistake,'" Giambi told the newspaper. "We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward.

"Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it."

The San Francisco Chronicle reported in December 2004 that...