Comments on: Report: Bonds, Pujols, Clemens, McGwire, Sosa, Pettitte, Damon, Giambi on Mitchell’s steroids list; Update: Pujols, Sosa, Damon cleared?

By: Jon Swift

Jon Swift — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:02:03 +0000

When Steroids Are Banned, Only Cheaters Have Them…

The real heroes in this story are the players who were not afraid to take steroids because of some old-fashioned notion of fair play….

By: Vaporman87

Vaporman87 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:51:39 +0000

Who is McGwire? I know of Mark McGuire.

By: Michelle Malkin » End the baseball freak show

Michelle Malkin » End the baseball freak show — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:58:18 +0000

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By: faraway

faraway — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:51:38 +0000

Barry Bonds was the happiest man in America yesterday when the report was released.

By: faraway

faraway — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:50:34 +0000

BASEBALL*

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:13:44 +0000

Remember the Cardinals’ comeback against Houston in the NLCS? Pujols coming to bat in the 9th against the Astro closer, with the bases loaded?

I actually felt sorry for the pitcher; there seemed to be no doubt of what was about to happen. First pitch fastball.

I don’t think the ball has landed yet.

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:59:56 +0000

Update: The plot thickens. MLB officials are disputing the report of who’s on the list but WNBC is standing by it. One hour until we know for sure.

WNBC F’ed up. Somebody was emailing that list around today and sending it from multiple addresses trying to get stations to run with it. They were claiming it came from Bloomberg. WEEI in Boston had it and refused to run with it until Bloomberg would confirm. Finally WEEI got Bloomberg on the phone and they denied the report. Then, WNBC and MSNBC ran with the very same list. Sounds like they got suckered because they did not do any checking before they ran with it.

By: Iblis

Iblis — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:43:20 +0000

No Manny, Pedro or Ortiz? I call BS.

By: a capella

a capella — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:22:51 +0000

If androgens are illegal because they enhance performance, why don’t lidocaine and intra-articular cortico-steroids fall under the same heading? Don’t drugs which allow an injured player to keep playing at his pre-injury level enhance his performance or his longivity? For that matter, if one is a purist, how about analgesic balm or Tylenol? We’re still interfering with what that player’s ability to perform naturally. If keeping the playing field level is the objective, it seems strange Bonds and others are allowed excessively protective lead elbow pads so they could dive in after outside pitches, or that the pitching mound height was decreased arbitrarily so more balls would go out. MLB has a PR problem because the steroid messiness was leaking out into the public eye and screwing up all those stats we love. So, they hired Mitchell.

By: MaiDee

MaiDee — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:06:18 +0000

You can tell from the non-cooperation of the Union and of its players that the 80 named were a mere (perhaps 5%) “tip of the iceberg” so don’t automatically assume that any non-named player is a “good guy”.

By: RightWinged

RightWinged — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:48:24 +0000

I don’t see anything about Varitek in that report, yet I saw his name (and picture) on Fox News repeatedly today, as someone included… WTF?

By: pullingmyhairout

pullingmyhairout — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:37:12 +0000

These guys using what was at the time a perfectly LEGAL drug??? with no damage to themselves??? Who cares…

Romeo13 on December 13, 2007 at 12:57 PM

It matters because steroid use puts the players at an unfair advantage. It makes their accomplishments false – and under the banner of these false accomplishments, they re-negotiate multi-million dollar contracts. It doesn’t really matter if steroids are legal – they were banned in the early 90′s from baseball for a reason – and that was to ensure that the playing field remained level. And these guys ignored the ruling, used the drugs and cut corners to win World Series, get into the Hall of Fame and to further enrich themselves.

These players should be ashamed of themselves.

By: Henry Bowman

Henry Bowman — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:30:08 +0000

The report indicates that Jason Giambi started using steroids early in 2001 [while with the Athletics] and then quit using steroids immediately after the all-star break in 2003. Giambi started playing for New York in 2002.

By: EnochCain

EnochCain — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:22:40 +0000

SillyRyno on December 13, 2007 at 3:53 PM

Investigations have been berry berry good to him.

By: kcluva

kcluva — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:59:34 +0000

Of course Clemens too….but we all know it was after he left the Red Sox!

By: kcluva

kcluva — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:59:03 +0000

Mo Vaughn is the only one in the history of the Red Sox to use steroids! Of course, that was after he signed with the Angels!

What a sham list. Every other name on that list is a former or current Yankee.

Lead Investigator is a part owner of the Red Sox.

Conflict of interest? In baseball? No way!

Next thing, they’ll name an owner of a team as Commissioner. Oh wait….

By: DrW

DrW — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:55:15 +0000

they only guy i really care about is Bonds. i despise him not for taking steroids. not due to his race. not due to the teams he played for …in fact I grew up a Pirate fan.

I hate him because he’s the biggest prick.. evah! In fact, he still owes my two cousins greg and barrett several hundred dollars that they earned cutting the grass at his house in the early 1990s. Can you imagine what jag off a guy has to be to stiff two cute squeeky voiced twins who busted their butts all summer cutting your grass..and then offering them 2 tix to a Pirates game instead of payment in full. F Barry Bonds.

By: SillyRyno

SillyRyno — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:53:29 +0000

Sosa = David Copperfield/David Blaine/Criss Angel

How they’ve never found ANYTHING on him considering how hard people have been trying, is simply amazing.

By: Hening

Hening — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:42:57 +0000

Did they test Steinbrenner?

By: infidel4life

infidel4life — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:37:26 +0000

No way Sosa did it w/o ‘roids. He blew up bigger and faster than Bonds did.

By: davod

davod — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:36:53 +0000

I just hope this list has not been obtained using the Woodward methodology. If you don’t talk to me I will find someone who will talk about yo and you will look bad.

By: Spirit of 1776

Spirit of 1776 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:31:18 +0000

No Sosa? Um, riiiiight, Sammy’s clean.

By: dedalus

dedalus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:20:59 +0000

Mo Vaughn

Did he need to bulk up? Maybe he meant to include Vaughn as part of the Slim Fast investigation.

By: SouthernPride

SouthernPride — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:05:08 +0000

Typical democratic list! Mitchell didn’t list Hillary as being on steroids and well, you tell me. Is she a ‘roid user or not? DUH!
I also heard she is coaching John Edwards on ‘roid use to help make his voice deeper.

By: SillyRyno

SillyRyno — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:01:28 +0000

OFFICIAL, some of the names:

All Stars that were listed:

Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Gary Sheffield, Miguel Tejada, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite, Brian Roberts, Lenny Dykstra, Jason Giambi, Todd Hundley, Eric Gagne, Chuck Knoblauch, David Justice, Mo Vaughn, Denny Neagle, Mike Stanton, Paul Lo Duca, Fernando Vina, Kevin Brown, Brendan Donnelly.