What will the Mitchell report turn out to be?

Question

A lasting document to restore the games moral credibility, or a document that will parallel Selig's supurb financial achievements with a equally devastating drug culture that grew under his tenure?
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Answer 1

I think it will have a lasting effect more if they try and use the report to discipline players. THis could be just as important a legal issue to baseball as Curt Flood suing for free agency. If they try to discipline off the report you know that the players will file a suit that will really define the powers of the Executive Branch of Baseball in the future. I think it will be a source of embarrassment for all parties and unless both sides are willing to take a hit to their ego and sit down to negotiate a real way to cast out PED's from their sport this report will have no other lasting effect.

I am more interested in the fall out to the report than I am to what the report will say itself, it is already rumored that blame is going to both sides which is interesting because the owners and Selig have always played the "we didn't know" card; the players should be held to higher standard because common sense tells you that if it is illegal in society you should not do it within your sport. There is nothing in the rule book that says you can't shot the second basemen before he gets you out on a double play but societies rules tell you that you can not kill people so no one does it.

Answer 2

It will have as much creditability as the federal government has with the people. When was the last time the public ever trusted a politician? Who elected George Mitchell God? What makes his word any better or worse than anyone else?

Players lives and careers are about to be thrown down the toilet based on a questionable document at best. Does Mitchell really understand what he's doing?

Wasted time and money as far as I'm concerned. There will always be questions. This is like asking the age old question, "Who killed Kennedy?"

Answer 3

Drug use was going on and is going on. Anyone who was drafted high and can get a good signing bonus can go out and get the best drugs that can't be traced or detected. That's how Alex Rodriguez built his career.

Heck, I was a good enough athlete that steroid use could had benefited me enough to get a half college scholarship. That would had been enough to at least consider a low level of steroid use, that is a trivial temptation compared to the $50 million dollars additional money Barry Bonds has received for enhanced performance from drug use.

The Mitchell report will be next week's bird cage liner and will not have any lasting effect on baseball.

If baseball, football, hockey, wrestling or basketball truly wanted weekly blood testing to detect all drugs, they could do that. Bottom line is drugs is have had a positive financial impact on sports.

Answer 4

Not sure what it will be? Probably more damaging than helpful. But on a side note, as a SF Giants fan i'll be happy when this report comes out. I am hoping that Americans can FINALLY STOP fixating on Bonds and get in touch with reality. That being that steroid abuse has saturated the MLB and we can take Bonds off the torture stake! Time to wake up America...Bonds is NOT alone!

Answer 5

As important as Commisioner Landis' rulings. Baseball needs to be cleaned up. Can MLB ban 80 players? Probably not, but they can certainly suspend anybody active for 60 games (I'd prefer the whole year), revert major awards (MVPs, Cy Youngs, etc . . .) and ban from HOF. Barry Bonds is exceptional because he would have been an HOF guy before he took steroids, but now he probably won't be.

Answer 6

I think it all depends on how the evidence was gathered and if the people who are listed have more evidence on them then merely hearsay. I think it is wrong to accuse somebody of steroid use with only circumstantial evidence. If they don't have solid evidence on the players then it will have little impact. If the evidence is solid and the players listed obviously took steroids then it will have a lasting impact on the game.

Answer 7

BIG NOTE: ROGER CLEMENS NAME WILL BE ON THE MITCHELL REPORT AND HIS FORMER TRAINER SAID HE USED STEROIDS BEFORE THE YANKEES AND DURING YEARS AS A NEW YORK YANKEE

APOLOGIZE AND EXCUSE THE PURE AN CLEAN AS THE DRIVEN SNOW... ROGER CLEMENS.

ESPN: Source says information on Clemens will be in MITCHELL'S REPORT

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3153129


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