Another Episode: Ron Washington’s Cocaine Use Goes Unpunished by Rangers, MLB

Posted: 18th March 2010 by Sloan Piva in MLB
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Major League Baseball has a real knack for standing under black clouds and refusing umbrellas. Just when the nation was beginning to think the league drug-testing policy was working, a story breaks about Ron Washington testing positive for cocaine in 2009 and receiving no punishment. The Texas Rangers manager says that as soon as he found out he would be drug-tested last July, he informed league officials and team ownership that he had made a “mistake.” He offered to tender his resignation upon meeting with team president Nolan Ryan and general manager Jon Daniels. However, the league did not discipline Washington, and the team not only declined his offer of resignation, they did not even suspend him. Instead, they referred Washington to counseling and issued more frequent drug ...

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