What are your thoughts of the Mitchell Report?

Question

Do you think the Report provided evidence to punish these players?

Answer 1

No one is a bit surprised that a professional athlete who is paid millions of dollars to play a sport well will use any type of performance enhancing anything to boost his career. And people want exciting games. Fast pitches, far hits and fast runners are what sells tickets. No one cares how they get the results. We all stand here and say "They shouldn't do that. It's not right, blah, blah, blah. But at the end of the day, we rather watch an exciting game with the Barry Bonds hitting home runs, and Roger Clemens pitching as fast as a man can throw a ball than games without them.

Answer 2

It's junk. For the amount of time Mitchell spent on it, you would think there would be a lot more involved than just focusing on a couple of clubhouse guys in New York who just happened to get caught.

We kept hearing how a lot of big names were going to come out, but outside of Clemens and Pettitte, most of them were average or retired players.

I'm sure that there is sufficient evidence to suspend some of these players. There are checks that were written to these guys that could be used.

I think that for Yankee haters, the report is great, even though a lot of the guys named barely played for the Yankees, or played for the Yankees when they were not winning. For Yankee haters they could say it taints the dynasty of the 1990s, which is wrong.

This is not a groundbreaking report. There are steroid dealers and HGH dealers all over the country who provide to MLB players, not just these two guys. Naming retired players and basing a report around two dealers does nothing.

Answer 3

I think it was a good read. But all it did was just confirm what was already widely known or suspected. I see alot of people saying that it doesn't really prove anything and all it is is just some hearsay from people who were just trying to avoid jailtime. But, if it was just B.S. then why did Petitte feel the need to come clean so quickly? I mean we already have a growing list of current and former players who have fessed up. Bonds, Sheffield, Giambi, Petitte, Caminiti, Dykstra, Canseco, and Palmeiro all have admitted to juicing. Not all of those players are Hall of Famers but they were all certainly all-star caliber players at one time or another. Unfortunately, I don't think much is going to come out of it because the players' "union" will come to their rescue once again. It is one of the biggest organized crime syndicates around. The commissioner is powerless so hopefully the DEA will step in and make some arrests. That will be the only way to get thru to some of these players.

Answer 4

We knew about the big players, no one cares about the small ones.

He only used evidence from like 2 suppliers, and got information from sources that might be unreliable.

It's a bunch of crap until there is better evidence.

Answer 5

It' not worth the paper it's written on. There is not one piece of concrete evidence. 409 pages of innuendos, "He said, She said".

Mitchell has, just by naming names potentially ruined the lives and careers of a number of players. It's wrong and it should have never happened.

The only way to prove their innocence now is to file law suits against those that ratted them out. It's unfortunate but it's the only way.

You know the perception in today's society, you are guilty until proven innocent.

Answer 6

it is "handy" how they only occurred to point the Yankees maximum prominently, possibly for the marvel cost or perhaps to destroy the final decade of yankee fulfillment in human beings's minds. i won't be able to bounce to conclusions, I do believe in harmless till shown responsible. It became into extraordinary regardless of the undeniable fact that once I study the story on the Fox activities information superhighway-website they have been merchandising some pink Sox merchandise, i understand because of the fact they are "chumps" oops I advise Champs, yet no well-liked pink Sox participant became into named interior the article.

Answer 7

The report is one of the best things to happen in baseball

It clearly shows that Evil Empires will do evil things to win. The Yankees should stripo of every game they one while the cheaters played

Answer 8

I think of it the same way i think of Consaco's book...just a lot of talk about what people supposedly did and not much evidence..

Answer 9

Think its very important.. but unfortunately there are just too many silly people who just won't care if their favourite ball player is a druggie.

That is the really sad part.

Answer 10

It will be white washed, and it is funny that some Yankees fans, with two roids/HGH/CHEAT users in their starters, already want to forget the report.


AND THE DAMMED CHEATS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM BASEBALL LIKE "SHOELESS" JOE AND PETE ROSE!