Mitchell Report...

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(12/13/07) NEW YORK (AP) - Roger Clemens, Miguel Tejada and Andy Pettitte were named in the long-awaited Mitchell Report on Thursday, an All-Star roster linked to steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs that put a question mark - if not an asterisk - next to some of baseball's biggest moments.

Barry Bonds, already under indictment on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroids, also showed up in baseball's most infamous lineup since the Black Sox scandal.

The report culminated a 20-month investigation by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, hired by commissioner Bud Selig to examine the Steroids Era.

It was uncertain whether the report would result in any penalties or suspensions.

Several stars named in the report could pay the price in Cooperstown, much the way Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year merely because of steroids suspicion.

"Former commissioner Fay Vincent told me that the problem of performance-enhancing substances may be the most serious challenge that baseball has faced since the 1919 Black Sox scandal," Mitchell said in the 409-page report.

"The illegal use of anabolic steroids and similar substances, in Vincent's view, is 'cheating of the worst sort.' He believes that it is imperative for Major League Baseball to 'capture the moral high ground' on the issue and, by words and deeds, make it clear that baseball will not tolerate the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs."

Eric Gagne and Paul Lo Duca were among other current players named in the report, both linked to Human Growth Hormone.

"We identify some of the players who were caught up in this drive to gain a competitive advantage," the report said. "Other investigations will no doubt turn up more names and fill in more details, but that is unlikely to significantly alter the description of baseball's `steroids era' as set forth in this report."

(12/13/07 News 12 Westchester)

this is a huge reaon why i'll watch the sports, but i could care less about who plays on which team. these players are "role models" to young athletes all over the world, but in reality they really are a bunch of losers, who pop pills and stick needles in their butts...

the end justifies the means...

take the title away from Bonds...

[NJMedic 96]

this is a huge reaon why i'll watch the sports, but i could care less about who plays on which team. these players are "role models" to young athletes all over the world, but in reality they really are a bunch of losers, who pop pills and stick needles in their butts...

the end justifies the means...

take the title away from Bonds...

I'll admitted Bonds has a crappy personality that has caused more people to dis-like him and has done nothing to help him in the court of popular opinion but what about Clemens and Pettite and all the other players named in the Mitchell Report? Should Clemens be barred from the H of F? Should his records be prefixed with an *?

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I'll admitted Bonds has a crappy personality that has caused more people to dis-like him and has done nothing to help him in the court of popular opinion but what about Clemens and Pettite and all the other players named in the Mitchell Report? Should Clemens be barred from the H of F? Should his records be prefixed with an *?

pretty much yea...

my Bonds comment was a generalization that no one w/ performance enhancing drugs in their system should recieve ANY credit for their career

[IzzyEng4 427]

If they get in, Pete Rose should be in!!!!!