Points about The Mitchell Report from others
Please keep in mind that I am a true baseball apologist.
What about Congress? Predictably, the headline-hungry Reps and Senators in Washington are calling for all manner of changes and the head of Selig. Tell you what, once no more kids are getting killed in Iraq you can worry about Paul Lo Duca sticking a needle in his butt.
Mentioning Sammy Sosa once in a report on steroids on baseball is like forgetting to mention the Beatles in the history of rock and roll.
…while the multi-million dollar Report provided a few big names such as Clemens, Pettitte and Tejada, most of the names were fairly mediocre players no longer in baseball. What good did it do to sully the reputation and integrity of these guys? What a low class shot for Mitchell and his law firm to take at athletes who played a few years, made a few bucks, and retired. Can we survey the associates at DLA Piper and see whether they have ever taken performance enhancing drugs to stay up for an all nighter or to party into the night?
Why does the public and the media continue to impose standards and rules on professional and college athletes no one else would stand for?
The hypocrisy is deafening.
The report’s conclusion: Lots of baseball players have been using steroids.
We now wait anxiously for former senator George Mitchell’s next exciting $40 million report: Cake is fattening.