Hear me, oh Lord. Make sure Manny and Big Papi are not on the list. And not Yuke, oh Lord. Take JD Drew if you must. Make sure his contract has a unilateral opt out clause, too. But not Beckett, Lord. Please not Beckett.
Mitchell has interviewed scores of former players and club executives. But the report will state that there is a lot of information the investigation did not uncover, the person said, making it unlikely that baseball’s steroids issue will be put to rest. That person and one other person familiar with Mitchell’s findings said the report would name more than 50 active and former major league players who are linked to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. The person who read the report said among those named would be the winners of Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards.You can ravage the Jays as you wish, though. All you like. Fill your boots. And Arizona. I never liked them, dear Lord. Can't tell you why. But pass by Fenway, Lord. The red mark is on that house.
Comments
Alan - December 13, 2007 1:07 PM
Deadspin's rumour list includes Veritek and Damon.
ry - December 14, 2007 12:28 AM
Names I was surprised to see: Brendan Donnelly, Scot Schowenwiess, Chuck Knoblock. Name I wasn't surprised to see: Troy Glaus, it was obvious to me when they won the WS---and I've thrown his name out there around here before.
Names I was surprised not to see: K-Rod, any Red Sox big time players (gee, I wonder if it's happening on all teams it somehow seems to disappear on one team. Odd. It's just odd. There's very reasonable explanations for it, like they simply haven't left any evidence behind to track. But it just seems odd.), Sosa and Big Mac(who all but admitted to taking an ester of a steroid---dodging by gaming a technical def'n.).
The number of catchers shouldn't have surprised me, but it did. Having the strength to make the throw to second is a big part of a catchers game, and a deciding factor on who to keep and how to banish to obscurity of the minors.
I still say rip the records away for anyone there's good evidence for. Ban them for life from baseball. No Hall for any of them. It's no worse than throwing games or pont shaving, IMO. In this I disagree with Mitchell. Bonds belongs in prison for perjury. The rest of them deserve having their careers expunged from the annals of Baseball History.
Mike Campbell - December 14, 2007 6:23 AM
'warnings of'
John Rocker! Say it ain't so!
Two members of Mister Burns' Isotopes go down. Hopefully they weren't using back then and the Springfield win can remain unasterixed.