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Podcast: No Crying In Baseball
Episode: Save the Spit for the Test
Description: The only spitting currently allowed in the MLB is into vials for mandatory testing. Pottymouth’s musings about the total volume of saliva this collects on a daily basis aside, the testing protocols are failing in a number of ways. Intake testing wasn’t actually completed until a week after the league announced the results, and an additional 17 positive tests came from the first round of monitor tests *after* players and staff completed intake and were approved to enter training facilities. MLB chartered planes to bring Dominican players back to the US, without testing them...