Police are allowed to visit the homes of registered gun owners for unannounced tests to make sure the guns are locked up and properly stored, with the security code or location of the keys known only to the owner.
The BHA arrived for their unannounced testing visit on 9 April.
The 24-hour notice had been roundly criticized by antidoping experts, who said it undermined the integrity of baseball's drug program, which called for random, unannounced testing.
He did answer one drug-related question, saying he supported a recent announcement that players would be subject to in-season, unannounced testing for human growth hormone.
The union wants to have a provision that would terminate random, unannounced testing for steroids if fewer than 21/2percentnt of the players tested positive in any two-year period or in any year after the first year of the program.
In its breakthrough proposal -- the union had never agreed to any kind of unannounced testing for any substance -- the union offered to have two years of survey testing to determine the level of use in baseball.
In addition, beyond the first survey season and without random testing being done, if survey testing produced positive results in less than 2.5percentt of the players, there would be no further unannounced testing, but testing for cause only.
But as reported in The New York Times in October, drug testers for M.L.B. call a day ahead and request parking and stadium passes, giving advance notice to team officials for what is supposed to be unannounced testing.
Drug testers contracted by the league routinely alert team officials a day or more before their arrival at ballparks for what is supposed to be random, unannounced testing of players.
Players would be tested unannounced, and if more than 5percenttesteded positive for steroids, a two-year program of random, unannounced testing would ensue.
