Mitchell Report Thread (Nothing to see here! Drugs are bad. Crisis averted!)

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Perhaps. My guess is if Jeter or A-Rod were named, it'd be in the papers today. Find it hard to believe the organization wouldn't get a 'hey, just to give you a heads up ... x is named' call the night before so they can prepare a statement or inform the player. This is also why i don't think Pujols' shows up anywhere. Again, just guesses.

I tend to agree with in exile. The only 'new' names will be guys from the 90s that are no longer playing (I also guess 3-4 Mets from the 1994 team will be named.)

 

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Is it 2:00 yet?

Prepare for a chaotic 6 hours afterward, kids.

 

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I'm with those who think this is not all that big a deal, in the grand scheme.

If A-Rod is on the list and announces his retirement immediately thereafter, call me. Otherwise, yawn.

It's not going to change anything. Brady Anderson still hit 50 home runs that one year and did jack shit before or after. Bret Boone still became the game's most inexplicable power hitter. Nobody's going to lose a ring, or money, or any records. The Steroid Era is going to have, in the long run, affected the game no more or less than the Greenie Era, the Drunken Cigar-Smoking Era, the I-Pitched-A-No-Hitter-While-Tripping Era ... I'm at the point now where I'd be more surprised to learn who's NOT taking steroids.

I used to love the game. Now I just don't care.

 

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ESPN.com's Jayson Stark reports ...

 

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Who would be the most crushing names to be on the list? What names would hurt baseball the most?

Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Chipper Jones, Kirby Puckett, Derek Jeter, Orel Hershiser, Todd Helton, Ichiro, Vlad Guerrero, Craig Biggio, Paul Molitor, Cal Ripken, Robin Yount, George Brett, Tony Gwynn.

As I was thinking, this list just kept growing, but IMHO, if any of the above are named, I do not think I could ever look at baseball the same way.

Sure, I could believe some guys did it, but some others...

 

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NY Yankees: Kyle Farnsworth, Andy Pettitte, Bobby Abreu, Jason Giambi, and Johnny Damon.

There's no way Mitchell allows Jeter or A-Rod to be on the list unless he has irrefutable evidence.

 

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T.J. Quinn is on ESPN saying "There will be new names, and a source tells me they will be big. Future Hall of Famers."

Should be interesting.

There is, likely, no way it goes back this far, but Ripken is the one name I think would make me vomit. Not because I like Cal (I don't) but because the moralizing and the "How can we ever believe in baseball again?" nonsense would be so overboard, and so universal, it would give me instant gag reflex.

 

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I think I will reread the latest ESPN Ombudsman piece again before I read a reporter reporting on one unnamed source again. Les of these stories will get us Miles further down the road.

 

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I get your point, Devil, but Quinn has a lot more credibility and experience than Kirk Herbstreit. One is a reporter, the other is a guy who (mostly) reads cue cards.

 

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Oh, I agree, but sifting through the immediate crap (about 50 percent accurate) is one thing that I do not like about the internet age.

 

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Name that would make me laugh the hardest:

Joba Chamberlin.

 

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You know, I though about putting that on that list I just typed, but I know it would almost jack the thread.

I think he is safe since he has dropped a ton of weight since he started pitching in college.

But as Perry Farrell says, "Nothing's Shocking."