“The process of what happened and how it happened was very troubling, and I think it tainted the whole situation.”
Richard Shelby
“The commissions taint the whole process,”
Frank Armstrong
“I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tainted with an illegal substance. It's just going to make the playing field a little more level.”
Brandon Inge
“It taints everybody. We think it's regrettable.”
David Bernstein
“This was not an unexpected situation. We don't know if there's another (anthrax-tainted) letter.”
Dan Nichols
“I think both of them avoid some of the tainted stuff from the pay raise because neither of them are incumbents, so I don't think they're going to be tarred and feathered with the same stick as incumbents.”
Jerry Shuster
“With what Barry Bonds might accomplish this year, I think (the steroid allegations) taint it a little bit. How many would he have really hit now? It's not going to improve his hand-eye coordination, but would the baseball have gone that far if he wouldn't have been using steroids?”
Rob Baughman
