D Day for baseball.
Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:23 pm
Well sort of. It was definitive, but there's no answer as to what to do to solve the problem.
Whenever I think of possible solutions my head starts to spin. It would be impossible to punish the players from the past, because it wasn't illegal for them to use performance enhancing drugs at the time (although I'm unsure if it was stipulated in their contracts that they weren't supposed to).
Also, the commissioner was aware of performance enhancing drugs in the sport. It wasn't just the players. Both parties are just as guilty.
But if nothing happens, no records taken back or awards returned, what happens to the players who were clean in that era?
Thats the same problem for labeling it a steroid era. If Pedro goes to the HOF does he get an asterix too just because he played in that era?
None of these players have ever been had a positive test. The only evidence (which is still circumstantial) is if a player purchased performing enhancing drugs. That and eye witness accounts. But with nearly everybody having their own agenda's, is that enough to convict a player?
But just say this is all true, there's no way this sport can regain its creditability with Bud Selig as commish. He was/is just as big a reason for performance enhancing drugs in baseball as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemmons and Jose Canseco.
Whenever I think of possible solutions my head starts to spin. It would be impossible to punish the players from the past, because it wasn't illegal for them to use performance enhancing drugs at the time (although I'm unsure if it was stipulated in their contracts that they weren't supposed to).
Also, the commissioner was aware of performance enhancing drugs in the sport. It wasn't just the players. Both parties are just as guilty.
But if nothing happens, no records taken back or awards returned, what happens to the players who were clean in that era?
Thats the same problem for labeling it a steroid era. If Pedro goes to the HOF does he get an asterix too just because he played in that era?
None of these players have ever been had a positive test. The only evidence (which is still circumstantial) is if a player purchased performing enhancing drugs. That and eye witness accounts. But with nearly everybody having their own agenda's, is that enough to convict a player?
But just say this is all true, there's no way this sport can regain its creditability with Bud Selig as commish. He was/is just as big a reason for performance enhancing drugs in baseball as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemmons and Jose Canseco.
Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:06 am
Not good.
FUCK YOU MIGUEL TEJADA.
FUCK YOU MIGUEL TEJADA.
Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:19 pm
Every player named in the report had a chance to sit down with Mitchell and refute the charges of steroid use against them and most of them declined. If you are innocent then why not talk to the guy?
Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:48 pm
What is the point of this Mitchell Report? To take the mind off of Barry Bond's juiced record by saying lot's of players are doing it or to protect baseball?
Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:24 pm
To show the MLB is actually doing something and not turning a blind eye to juice use to which the league has done for so long.
Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:37 pm
Nah, it's for the Senators and the Federal Government to involve themselves in something else they shouldn't be involved in. MLB clearly failed in policing this, but the federal government now sees itself as "saving America's pasttime" like when it tries to save us from video games.