I said yesterday morning that Major league baseball and its report that was issued yesterday about steroid use, was going to end up being a sham. They’d throw a few players under the bus, and that would be the end of the conversation.
After so many years of leading this stuff slide, I can’t believe they’re actually going to get serious about it, now. If I see that situation changed, I will be among the first to say I was wrong, but I don’t think that’s going to happen… particularly given the pressures that the players union will undoubtedly bring. The union has always been a large part of why MLB has never gotten serious before. Everyone’s been making money off this situation… and there’s far too much to lose, financially, to fully expose it. Simply put, I don’t see any reason for that situation to change.
So whose heads end up on the silver platter? Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte. The report suggests that some 80 other players are also guilty. This seems overly small based on what we were told. What about the minors?
In other words, Uncle Bithead called this sham from the get-go. This nonsense took 20 months to put together an all they can come up with in all of Major league baseball is 80 individuals using this stuff? To steal a phrase, trusting this report requires a willing suspension of disbelief. Of course, the union is the biggest part of the problem:
Giambi, under threat of discipline from Selig, and Frank Thomas were the only current players known to have cooperated with the Mitchell investigation.
“The players’ union was largely uncooperative for reasons that I thought were largely understandable,” Mitchell said.
How many more is the player’s union hiding, I wonder? That, then is step number one …getting tough with the players union. The fact is the player’s union is bad for the game, in many ways of which this is but one.
I’m sorry gentlemen, but this report does absolutely no good whatsoever for the credibility of Major league baseball. Perhaps it’s time to replace the leadership of Major league baseball. A new broom sweeps clean, not under the carpet .
The problem is wider than this, MLB, and you know it.
The fans deserve better.
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December 14th, 2007 at 11:26
At thie state Human Grownth Hormone is not detectable. MLB’s drug test can’t detect its use. The eighty namer were not the rusult of come comprehensive testing but only the rssult of one particular source deciding to talk.
Unleee you reason to believe that nnly source talked and revealed everything, the Micthell’s list does not constitute a census of who used and who did not use.
Given that HGH is not detectable, it goig to take some major cooperation between MLB and the MLPA to get a handle on this issue.