Okay, I've seen at least three people mention Albert Pujols being on the Mitchell Report. Would you care to tell me on what page I can find his name? Or how about Brady Anderson? I've searched the document, and see neither those nor many others mentioned.
Are you all just too stupid and/or ignorant to read the report? Why the rush to slander those not included?
2007-12-13 06:39:21 · 15 answers · asked by Craig S 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
hey, craig. i havent even seen the report yet - i went out to lunch to watch the espn deal, and mitchell was just talking about what the report entailed, etc.
i did notice a lot of people mentioning pujols though. i even asked the question - what is your source?... but never got a substantial answer. i think people were looking at baseballssteroidsera.com and drawing thier own conclusion - then marking it as fact.
certainly makes me lose respect for them.... and i'll never take thier answers as factual.
and that's certainly slander.
2007-12-13 06:52:56 · answer #1 · answered by Ann 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Just as importantly, why are they slandering those who ARE? Look, every time a player goes 3 for 5 or hits a ball off the wall, someone comes on here and says, hey -- ain't so and so juicin'? Who cares anymore? The clean guys are going to be accused, period. The dirty guys will continue to generate revenue, period. MLB will continue to not do much, period. The fans won't be considered in any decision that's made about steroids or anything else, period.
The only thing we can do is watch the games, buy the merchandise, watch betters be banned for life, and watch the writers put the wrong guys in the Hall and give the MVPs to their favorites. We don't mean much and we shouldn't fool ourselves about that, either. In a less imperfect world the Mitchell report would mean something. In the baseball world, it means very little. For a while fans of baseball get to gossip like Britney Spears's fans, and then the new season will start and there will be a lot more gossip and baseball will go on just like us fans are trailer court trash to MLB, which we are. And we will continue to watch and buy just like nothing happened. Which it didn't.
2007-12-13 08:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree, there has been a serious rush to judgement and people are simply ill-informed, or follow the "where there's smoke there's fire" line of thinking.
I will say that the report and those named represents the "tip of the iceberg."
Mitchell had really only three informants, so the New York clubhouses are taking the early brunt of this.
Baseball's drug testing revealed 7% of players on banned subtsances, yet those named in the report represent less than 1%.
Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa aren't listed, but there's certainly an overwhelming amount of anecdotal evidence on them.
The fans on YA who are crowing about not having players on the list are foolish to conclude that there aren't players on their favorite teams.
Ken Caminiti seemed to think that 50-60% of players were enhanced.
Still, I wholeheartedly concur with your statement that unless they are mentioned, it is ignorant and ill-advised to label a player who is NOT in the report.
2007-12-14 05:12:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The allegations toward innocent players is just wrong in every way, and I find it offensive to the clean community of baseball that men such as Albert Pujols were brought into a spotlight they shouldn't have even appeared in.
ESPN has a nice list of players and why they were included in the report.
2007-12-14 09:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by iceera31 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What I found, well, humourous, was that when people did include a link, it was to a blogspot site.
Some people believe that ANYTHING that's posted on the Internet is factual and I bet the person that owns that blog is a YA member as well.
If people are using other people's blogs to make points, they have bigger issues than slander to deal with.
I got a post on my facebook profile about this poor 8 year old girl that was burned in a Walmart store and for every time it's re-posted, Yahoo (or google, or AOL, or whomever) will take $2 off the hospital bill.
Yet, people post and re-post this utter nonsense because??? why would someone make up something like that... well, the reason is obvious, people are dumb enough to believe it.
That's what we are dealing with in this case.
2007-12-13 10:47:55 · answer #5 · answered by brettj666 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no u do no longer understand something approximately baseball. the two adult men that talked have been long island based sellers so thats why a good number of the gamers have been Mets nd Yankees. The Mitchell checklist is basically a handful of gamers that took them. there are maximum of extra sellers in the process the rustic and Latin u.s.. We would never understand ever1 that took it yet to assert that something of the purple Sox are sparkling is this style of ignorant assertion. there are maximum of fellows on the Sox that would have taken roids. look how plenty Manny has gotten smaller by way of the years, Ortiz sucked in Minnesota nd he has gotten smaller besides, Youk has long gone from a Minor League/lower back up participant into between the final 1b's in the league in the span of a three hundred and sixty 5 days or 2, Papelbon nd beckett are so dominating. i'm no longer asserting all of those adult men took it (in certainty i individually think of papelbon nd Beckett are sparkling yet thats basically a feeling) all im asserting is that there have been extra purple Sox who took it who werent in the checklist. enormous MAC ND SOSA WERENT EVEN in the checklist. Thats sufficient data to assert that there are so plenty extra human beings nd the sellers who talked werent rats they have been forced to by utilising the feds nd Mitchell is credible so do no longer say he's making an attempt to guard purple Sox their sellers in simple terms werent got here upon
2016-10-11 05:26:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have checked the names on wikipedia and have only been through about 100 pages of the actual report, a very interesting read but not a whole lot of substance to it. I like his recommendations...It hink he places blame all over which is good...I agree with him that we will never have a full list.
2007-12-13 08:35:57 · answer #7 · answered by bdough15 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah the tool that's going around posting the list with Kerry Woods, Pujols...etc. As you know, they're not on there. I've searched by team, by name and skimmed it myself. Read the actual report people on the MLB's website people! http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/mitchell/index.jsp
2007-12-13 06:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by JenEstes 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are stupid AND ignorant. They just name people that they want to be on the list. They see great players like Pujols and A-Rod and think just because they are so good they must be doing something illegal! It's lame...
2007-12-13 06:50:33 · answer #9 · answered by rend 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because too many people go by assumptions based on things they think they know instead of taking the time to makes sure they're factually correct.
2007-12-13 06:47:10 · answer #10 · answered by Phil M 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋