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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Double Down, Dec 12, 2007.

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  1. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (List of players in report on pg. 17)

    I think my favorite part of the entire report is where Brian Roberts and Larry Bigbie go hang out with David Segui, and Segui and Bigbie start shooting up, and Roberts sits there like a choir boy, probably nervously playing X-Box. Roberts is like the kid who sits in the corner and giggles as his friends smoke weed in high school, but passes when it's his turn for a bong hit. Later, he tells Bigbie he "did it like a couple of times" but stopped, probably because he wanted his roid freak teammates to think he was cool.

    Major League Baseball: Like high school, except everyone is rich, and some guys like to sleep with she-males when on the road.
     
    Double Down, Dec 13, 2007
    #469
  2. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (We're at go time!)

    Yeah, but you're a known juicer.
     
    zeke12, Dec 13, 2007
    #470
  3. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (List of players in report on pg. 17)

    For comparison's sake:

    Brady Anderson, Manny Alexander, Rick Ankiel, Jeff Bagwell, Barry Bonds, Aaron Boone, Rafaeil Bettancourt, Bret Boone, Milton Bradley, David Bell, Dante Bichette, Albert Belle, Paul Byrd, Wil Cordero, Ken Caminiti, Mike Cameron, Ramon Castro, Jose and Ozzie Canseco, Roger Clemens, Paxton Crawford, Wilson Delgado, Lenny Dykstra, Johnny Damon, Carl Everett, Kyle Farnsoworth, Ryan Franklin, Troy Glaus, Rich Garces, Jason Grimsley, Troy Glaus, Juan Gonzalez, Eric Gagne, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Giambi, Jeremy Giambi, Jose Guillen, Jay Gibbons, Juan Gonzalez, Clay Hensley, Jerry Hairston, Felix Heredia, Jr., Darren Holmes, Wally Joyner, Darryl Kile, Matt Lawton, Raul Mondesi, Mark McGwire, Guillermo Mota, Robert Machado, Damian Moss, Abraham Nunez, Trot Nixon, Jose Offerman, Andy Pettitte, Mark Pior, Neifi Perez, Rafael Palmiero, Albert Pujols, Brian Roberts, Juan Rincon, John Rocker, Pudge Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Scott Schoenweiis, David Segui, Alex Sanchez, Gary Sheffield, Miguel Tejada, Julian Tavarez,Fernando Tatis, Maurice Vaughn, Jason Varitek, Ismael Valdez, Matt Williams and Kerry Wood.

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    Piotr Rasputin, Dec 13, 2007
    #471
  4. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (List of players in report on pg. 17)

    How is Ken Caminiti not on the list? The guy admitted it in freakin' Sports Illustrated!

    Surprised McGwire isn't on there, too.
     
    bigpern23, Dec 13, 2007
    #472
  5. Starving Journalist

    Starving Journalist Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (List of players in report on pg. 17)

    That first list is BS. I searched some of those names in the report and they weren't there.
     
    Starving Journalist, Dec 13, 2007
    #473
  6. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (List of players in report on pg. 17)

    i do love me some orange juice -- is good stuff
     
    HoopsMcCann, Dec 13, 2007
    #474
  7. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (List of players in report on pg. 17)

    For all of you who are disappointed, what did you expect? He wasn't going to get much cooperation. He's lucky the Feds had caught a few fish, or else he'd have come to the table with zilch. The investigators were probably clueless about even asking a lot of the right questions. And it's not like they had a giant spotlight they could turn on people and get weak-kneed confessions. He has no legal authority, and even if he did, he wasn't going to get much sympathy from within the game. The best you could have hoped for was for him to catalogue what is already known and put it into one document, and then make some suggestions about moving forward. There are a ton of players who managed to evade being mentioned. And with HGH and the next batch of undetectable steroids, this isn't going to go away. Now mlb and the union will try to put in a better program, but only because Congress will be shitting down their throats until they do. And even with the better program, this is going to be a permanent part of the sport. 10 years from now, Androids might be playing the game and hitting 800-foot home runs instead of humans. Forget about the names at this point. People have to pretty much paint the last 10 to 15 years, as well as the future, with a broad brush and accept that it is what it is. Now the question--and this has always been the question--is, does it matter to you? For some people it will be no big deal. For others, there is an integrity thing. And you'll never get agreement. Eventually many of the people with the integrity concerns will probably be worn down by an unchanging reality and just accept it.
     
    The Big Ragu, Dec 13, 2007
    #475
  8. Starving Journalist

    Starving Journalist Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (Accurate players list on pg. 19)

    These guys deserve all they get. They were dumb enough not to buy their drugs with cash.
     
    Starving Journalist, Dec 13, 2007
    #476
  9. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (List of players in report on pg. 17)

    Sosa's not on the list, FWIW. There's only one mention of his name, and it's regarding Sosa declining to answer Mitchell's letter.
     
    Chi City 81, Dec 13, 2007
    #477
  10. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (Accurate players list on pg. 19)

    Hey, just because my daddy coached me in college doesn't mean I can't party!
     
    BYH, Dec 13, 2007
    #478
  11. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (Accurate players list on pg. 19)

    Mark Fainaru-Wada on ESPN right now. Creamora has no idea why he just kicked his dog.
     
    BYH, Dec 13, 2007
    #479
  12. Overrated

    Overrated Guest

    Re: The Running Mitchell Report Thread (Accurate players list on pg. 19)

    I don't know why, but Mark Carreon's name is the funniest one on the list to me.


    "Hurry it up already, asshole, and stick that needle in my ass. I'm getting ready to pinch hit. I said hurry, mother fucker! I'm fucking Mark Carreon. They need me."
     
    Overrated, Dec 13, 2007
    #480
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