Thursday, December 13, 2007

Someone Dropped A Bomb On Baseball

George Mitchell, a former US Senator from Maine finally came out with his report on steroids in Major League Baseball. It was quite a long list of names including MVP's, Cy Young winners and All-Stars among the numerous insignificant players. I was looking forward to it this morning as I was talking to a younger manager at Herbs. He was interested in seeing who was on the list, as was I.

Anyway, here are random thoughts randomly ordered.

When will some one be honest, be humble, and come forward and tell the truth? Step up someone!

Why does a former United States Senator, George Mitchell, hand names to the public and those players still deny what they did? Is the stereotype of athletes being stupid coming true here? They all "didn't know" what they or others were poking them in the butt with? I will not purchase that argument. I don't think that you should either.

Well then. If we should assume that all athletes are so dumb that they just do what they are told then why do we have so many loud mouths and irresponsible athletes out there shooting at, getting shot at and doing stupid things. Should the investigation move to the training staffs, athletic trainers and doctors of the teams? Should we do two years of researching and interviewing to find out motives and interests of every doctor and trainer?

ESPN Baseball Analyst John Kruk said that the players names should all be kept in house. (within MLB, I'm assuming but "in house") How does Kruk think this should be in house? There's onflict of interest with drug testing "in house" as he wants. It can't happen fairly. Why should the names NOT be released? I need to do some further thinking on that one.

I think Kruk just might want to protect his friends from the union. I don't know. I haven't been a MLB baseball player nor will I ever become one or probably ever understand them completely. But I do know that releasing the names might make one or two of these guys accountable to someone or something.

Do any of these guys have charity organizations set up? What's that organization looking like now?

It was a "soft" report. I still feel, or the media still feels, that this aren't proven facts. It seems to be reported recollections of conversations and memory. Tony Kornheiser is troubled with the lack of proof and so am I as he stated on his TV show on ESPN, Pardon The Interruption.

There are 78 names on this list and not one of them will man up and tell society what really happened? AT LEAST in his own personal case?

Most players listed were marginal players, let's be honest. There were some pretty darn good players on this list, however, they would not make a great All-Time Team. They could field a team, and a pretty good team but you've got a ton of Mark Carreon's, Steven Randolph's, Adam Riggs, Bart Miadich's in there. Who are they? I know of David Segui, Hal Morris, Ryan Franklin, Chuck Knoblauch, Jack Cust are though. Evidence suggests that with or without enhancement, they're still a pretty normal group of players. Steroids didn't bring them to greatness, it seems it just kept them in the game longer or productive for another couple years. So then, the question presents itself, why did you take steroids? Or why at least is your name associated with steroids? Can any one of these fine gentlemen tell us anything new and informative?

As my brother in law would say, "craziness!" Can't wait to hear more about it and read some of this 409 page pdf I have on my desktop.

See all of the players here.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

what do you think about the listed players or others not being included in the hall of fame?

Megan said...

i don't know if they can or will every get a handle on all this steroid stuff. Do they really even care (MLB top men)? It's dumb. But will be interesting now to see the ones who have true talent.