Did Selig's doctor allow players other than Alex Rodriguez to use steroids? Does anybody care?

You remember that story, right?  The one that almost everybody ignored after its initial report.

Bud Selig's doctor allowed Alex Rodriguez to use steroids. Is that enough mitigation to commute A-Rod's sentence?  Friday, July 4, 2014

You can't make up stuff like this.  The story isn't getting as much attention as one might expect ...

Selig's doctor allowed Rodriguez to use otherwise banned PED in 2007 and 2008.  Could that have led Rodriguez to think that enforcement of Selig's anti-PED policy was either inconsistent or not serious?

Bud Selig, end your personal vendetta against Alex Rodriguez.  Show some character and re-store him.  End his suspension now.  Let Alex Rodriguez play baseball.
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Selig: A-Rod's exemption unknown
Associated Press Updated: July 15, 2014  7:38 PM ET

Commissioner Bud Selig maintains that Major League Baseball had no idea Alex Rodriguez received a medical exemption from the sport's drug administrator to use a testosterone-boosting substance in 2007...

... the exemption was granted by Bryan W. Smith, then the independent administrator of baseball's drug program ...

"We did not know about it at the time," Selig said ...

Bud Selig defended testers he also seemed to throw under the bus. "History proved them I guess it turned out to be somewhat wrong, but they were outstanding doctors," Selig said...

Smith was the program's administrator from 2006 until he was replaced in June 2012 by Dr. Jeffrey M. Anderson.

"I probably shouldn't say this," Selig said, "the administrator at that time later was let go because he was too tough, as I remember."
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I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that, like John Adams in the play/movie 1776, Alex Rodriguez is obnoxious and disliked, and therefor his plight is ignored.  But there are some big issues that linger.

1. Alex Rodriguez was clearly treated unfairly in terms of punishment fitting the crime and methods used in persecuting him.

2. In ignoring number 1, people failed to ask an obvious but pertinent question: were players other than Alex Rodriguez also allowed by the league to use steroids and other performance enhancing drugs (PED)?

I just did Google searches and found nothing.  Since the story was first reported in early July, there was no indication that this basic question had been addressed.

The Major Baseball League (MBL) allowed only one player to use PED?  Commissioner Allan Huber "Bud" Selig stated that he did not know about the dispensation given by the MBL doctor to Alex Rodriguez.  Selig also never mentioned whether he considered that a mitigating factor.  Part of the reason that Selig did not address that issue was that no one even bothered to ask him.

Did Selig's doctor allow players other than Alex Rodriguez to use steroids?

There's a song lyric in 1776 that is pertinent: "Is anybody there?  Does anybody care?"