C'mon man - w/o any evidence none of us wanted to 'believe' Sosa and McGwire were taking steroids (how many writers have been apologizing for not covering that era w/o their fan cap on?) - but the facts are that they were - and McGwire and Sosa put themselves out there when they acted like dipshits at the congressional hearing.I'm also tired of hearing about Mark McGwire. Where was the witchhunt when he and Sosa revived the game in 1998? I think everybody was a McGwire or Sosa fan then. Now MLB and fans throw them under the bus. Congrats on being huge hypocrites.
I'm tired of the Mitchell Report and it really has done nothing for the game. There was nothing groundbreaking about it. People we suspected (Gagne, Teajda, Clemens) were "confirmed" and some others that we didn't (Petitte) were vilified for not doing too much. I also doubt that the Mitchell Report is going to turn fans away from the game or anything of the sort. Peoples asses are still going to be in the seats, people are still going to be watching baseball, still going to talk about baseball, still going to do exactly what they did last year.
MLB funded the Mitchell Report - so I can't believe they were trying to invest in something that was going to ultimately hurt their business. That would just be idiotic. If the goal of the report was to get a detailed report of the history of steroids, then this is a colossal failure. But, working for a major sports league, I can promise you that that was not their goal. The goal of the MLB - and God I hope this is the case - was to continue to raise the level of awareness that the league acknowledges the problem, and is working to fix it. If the league is able to pass any of Mitchell's action steps through the player's union, then this has been a victory for the league's fight against steroids.
