Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff
We're hours away from the release of the Mitchell Report. Names have been slowly leaking out all morning and some in the media are pretending those names are a big deal/surprise.
(As if anyone who covered the sport or has an ounce of common sense finds it shocking that a certain, multiple-time Cy Young award winner who miraculously got better during the twilight of his career might have used "supplements"...that's not breaking news people...it's stating the obvious! Wake me when someone like Greg Maddux appears on the list)
Guess what folks...this is just the tip of the iceberg. 60-80 names? HAH!!! Those are just the ones who've been unfortunate enough to get nabbed during an investigation. You and I know there are hundreds of cheaters out there, most of whom will escape the shame of being named in this report because they were lucky not to have their cancelled checks uncovered by the feds.
Consider this thread your outlet to discuss the report when it's been officially released. I'm curious to hear your take on which names surprised you and which didn't. And be prepared to face the fact many of the Red Sox you've rooted for, or currently root for, will be fingered as cheats. Will you be as harsh on them as you've been on Bonds, Giambi, Sosa, McGwire and the rest of the usual suspects?
2nd Update: As Lynn mentioned in the above post, the WNBC report turned out to be wrong. The names of the players involved and my previous update have been removed.
Hey Teddy, you were not implying "Roger Clemens" were you? Our Roger Clemens? Seriously, did his name come up because i haven't heard anything? How many of the 80 names releases are those of people who will be facing legal action in the near future?
What a great Day. Other than spending 4 1/2 hours in my car, we find out just what a CLASSY Organization the Yankees are.
Yankees All ROid Team
RF. Gary Sheffield
CF. Rondell White
LF. David Justice
1B. Jason Giambi
2B Chuck Knoblach
SP. Roger Clemens
SP. Andy Pettitte
SP. Kevin Brown
RP. Mike Stanton
C. Jim Leyritz
It's cool (as a Red Sox fan) to see the Yankees listed to such a degree on the Mitchell report but doesn't anyone think it strange that so many Yankees got named and *NO* current Red Sox (unless you want to count Donnelly and Gagne) got named? Sounds like the investigators spent all their time dealing with the 2 trainers for the Mets and Yanks and didn't really take it much further??
I am hoping the Sox are not/have not been infested with a bunch of sterroid and/or HGH-taking guys but I am not naive enough to think that NO ONE on the team has used them...
Baseball owners and players need to come up with a system by which these cheaters are dealt with like the guys who cheat in cycling or the Olympics. Only if the penalties are severe and the chances of getting caught good will we ever put an end to this.