And those were just the ones who were caught. Bottom line is that the UNION representing baseball players was able to stall and delay things for a very long time. On top of others in baseball not desiring to upset things too much. So while every sport has dope, baseball grew worse and worse. Now a total of 88 players, many household names have been exposed to be involved in dope.
Some people will never believe these guys are big time cheaters. Especially their favorites if named. I think we all felt John Rocker was on something. So for him to show up in the list was no surprise!
Barry Bonds’ name is all over the Mitchell report and while I contemplated putting quotes here from the report about him, it would take so many pages I decided not to. If you read some of the report though, you’ll see that Bonds and his trainer Gary Anderson were the reason lots of other players ended up using the same dope he’s been repeatedly accused of using.
Mitchell has recommended baseball not boot all the cheaters or try to discipline them all. Basically, all this work and Mitchell asks for amnesty.
From the Mitchell report:
I urge the Commissioner to forego imposing discipline on players for past violations of baseball’s rules on performance enhancing substances, including the players named in this report, except in those cases where he determines that the conduct is so serious that discipline is necessary to maintain the integrity of the game. I make this recommendation fully aware that there are valid arguments both for and against it; but I believe that those in favor are compelling.
Bud Selig, being spineless probably won’t come down very hard on anyone and has already provided his response.
So they’ve been exposed, but nobody will do much about it.
It would be fitting that NOBODY named in the report ever be inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame.
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December 13th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
I noticed Gary Sheffield’s name on the list of 88 players who’s taking steroids. It kind of surprise me to see his name, considering he presents himself as drug free and Christian, trying to help his famous uncle Dwight Gooden out with his drug problems. Him and his wife, who is in the religious industry worships at Randy and Paula White church. Let me just say there’s not a perfect Christian anywhere, but I agree that none of those players should be in the MLB Hall of Fame.
December 13th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
IC, I remembered Dwight Gooden when he was a pitcher for the NY Mets back in the day. Correct me if I’m wrong, but was he the youngest pitcher ever to lead a team into the World Series and win? I’m not sure.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Can’t say I know.
The Sheffield’s used to claim Eddie Long’s club back when he played with the Atlanta Braves, I was there back then. I’m just going to take a tactful no comment regarding them, except for something noted in the Mitchell report about Gary. He (by his own account) was given "the clear", "the cream" and even "red beans" (steroid pills from Mexico) by Barry Bonds. When questioned Gary claimed Bonds never told him they were steroids
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December 14th, 2007 at 7:12 am
I think that no comment tells everything we need to know about them,lol….you can fake being a Christian but you cant fake the Fruit…..
December 14th, 2007 at 10:07 am
I knew Barry Bonds was not the only one involved, but what I find strange is Senator Mitchell recommends "no punishment" for the noted alleged offenders in the league.Will BarryB. get "a pass" now that this information has been made public.? WOW, that’s pretty interesting!
December 14th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Even with someone like Bonds and others who have already retired, they could pull their records from the books if they wanted to. They are letting these guys get a pass because they don’t want to show how damaging this all really is. 88 players is almost enough to put players on 10 teams. It’s the off season and I suspect they hope everyone forgets about some of this by next Spring.
December 14th, 2007 at 11:21 am
I’m still confused, though……why is there so much corruption paticularly in the world of BASEBALL than with other sports (Michael Vick not withstanding)?
December 14th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Gxg, see the first paragraph. It’s called MONEY.
December 14th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
@SDM – Bonds will not get a free pass because he is dealing with the government. The difference between Bonds and the others is that Bonds lied…….oops alledgely lied to a grand jury.
December 15th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
It makes me wonder now if A-Rod and Derek Jeter of the Yankees are juicing, considering that they have very lucrative contracts. Just wondering.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
I have just found out that there was a 60 Minutes interview with A-Rod and when asked if he was taking steroids, he said no.
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Sorry KyleAndrews, but a thread closed to comments means it’s time to move on, not continue the same line of discussion in another
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