Dear Roger Clemens:

[yendi]

Thank you for your application. It was very amusing.

Love,

The MLB Hall of Fame (five years hence)

Seriously, the Mitchell Report is simply fascinating to read, along with the assorted denials, dodges, and bullshit. Selig's attempts to present himself as a strong and blameless leader, alone, are worth watching.

The Mets fan in me is happy to see that it's mostly ex-Mets (and given the supposed leaks of the report to teams, I'm a lot less surprised that Paul Lo Duca wasn't asked back). Then again, the vast number of players who used to be in the organization is disappointing. And there's nothing to say that this isn't the tip of the iceberg.

I'm surprised at Pettitte,and at Matt Franco (being Kurt Russell's nephew used to stand for integrity, dammit!). Not at Segui or Tejada. Dykstra and Hundley were so obviously juiced, their names are almost superfluous. And I do feel a sense of schadenfreude over the naming of John Rocker.

Biggest name I expected to see but didn't: Pujols, of course.

Overally, I'm still processing all the info, but I'm fascinated.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

My only remaining question...

Why did these guys write checks to their drug dealers???

[montykins.livejournal.com]

Why did these guys write checks to their drug dealers???

And not just checks! Paul Lo Duca wrote a nice thank-you note on Dodger stationery!

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

well, rondell white wrote his for "bought something" in the memo on the check. nice and subtle, that one.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

Overally, I'm still processing all the info, but I'm fascinated.

I'm not. The primary source for most of what's in the report is an ex-Mets clubhouse guy who's trying to get his prison sentenced reduced. There are no test results, and all the report says is what players were doing years ago before MLB instituted the current steroid policy. Yawn and yawn.

[alice-q.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

And a second cluster is guys who were taking HGH while they were rehabbing, presumably because they thought it would help them recover from injuries or surgeries.

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

I could have told you Pujols wouldn't be on it. The most dangerous stuff he puts in his body comes from his restaurant (portions that could feed an army).

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

He is still a Hall of Famer.

So is Barry Bonds.

I do not buy that argument.

Then again, I would vote for Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

If it's an issue, then every reporter who snorted coke needs to take himself off the BBWA election committee.

Oh, and I have a little trouble with the only source being a guy who is trying to save his own ass.

Yeah, I am eccentric.

[texmorgan.livejournal.com]

Barry Bonds is going to jail not to the Hall of Fame. Idiot should have plead guilty and gotten a deal.

[texmorgan.livejournal.com]

I already posted about this but I think the Astro's might have just got handed the worst trade ever if action is taken against Tejada.

[slitterst.livejournal.com]

Someone in the Orioles front office must have earned a nice Christmas bonus for completing that trade in the nick of time.

[yendi]

This is the Orioles. They can't make a trade that doesn't come back to bite them somehow.

[slitterst.livejournal.com]

True.

[allroads.livejournal.com]

Pete Rose looks like a saint compared to this people. Maybe they should reconsider that whole out of the Hall of Fame thing.

[yendi]

Well, except that Pete bet on games in which he played, leading to the possibility that he didn't just cheat to win, but cheated to lose.

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

i'm just glad that the brian roberts news came out before we got him...even though it was a one time blah blah blah. perhaps because i haven't been following baseball as long as others, but i recognized like maybe 15 names on the list. shouldn't there have been more active players for this thing to be a such a Big Deal (TM)?

then again, sucks to be the astros and the brewers. nothing beats getting a player and then finding out he did the roids...

[yendi]

then again, sucks to be the astros and the brewers. nothing beats getting a player and then finding out he did the roids..

Except for the Mets, who found out a player did the 'roids, and signed him to an insane contract anyway (thankfully, we traded Mota away).