The Mitchell Report Is Coming

heard the same thing, Mix of old and current Yankees

Giambi
Grimsley
Chuck Knoblach
Chad Curtis

Possibly Clemens and Pettitte, both were lsited in the Grimsley affidavit

Giambi and Sheffield is no real secert is it? particularly the former.

I doubt it's going to be a bad day unless A-rod / Posada / Cano /Pettitte / Wang or some of the kids name pop up, Abreu might... but not that likely either.

They shouldn't have had someone on the freaking Red Sox payroll leading the investigation. Not that Mitchell is not trustworthy, but how do you allow such a blatant appearance of impropriety? Seriously, how stupid do you have to be? If there's a glut of Yankees and only one or two scrub Red Sox on the report everyone is going to question its findings.

My dark-horse has been Posada all along. He was on Monster Garage on the discovery channel 3 or 4 years ago and his arms had a diameter of like 1 foot.

Abreu wouldnt surprise me either.

of course ny teams are gonna be singled out...all of mitchell's findings came from the met's clubhouse assistant. mitchell even admitted in the report that without that guy, the report woulda been pretty small. so, of course the report will centralize around ny, but in my mind will not canvas all of baseball like it should have.

You're most likely right NJ there will be mostly NY linked players for the reason you stated. If the Astros club attendant rolled then it would be filled with players that passed thru houston. Thats a bit different than singling out the NY teams. All this report will do is embarass a few mid level players - give us names we already know about or don't care about and possibly kickstart a senate investigation with subpeona power which will get " all baseball" much better than the mitchell report ever could. My guess for saddest entry on list - my man Kerry Wood ( god i hope not lol )

I think the investigation stinks of bias, Ok so a member of the Red sox Board is running the investigation? I am willing to be there are only a couple of scrub names from the sox on there. Garciaparra being the biggest name.
If this is the case and the sox come out looking a little too clean is this going to raise eyebrows?
What I am implying is if the sox are the team with the least amount of names will it look like George Mitchell left them off to make sure his paychecks keep coming after this report?
and will anyone be surprised if Carl Pavano is on this report?

last thing, here is my rant on this whole investigation, before it comes out (http://myespn.go.com/jnr98):

Some thoughts before the storm...

No name on the Mitchell Report will surprise me. Not one. That's a sad commentary on the players of the last 12-15 years. Also sad: I know I am not alone.

Some names would disappoint me if they are on it. Just so long as Jeter's name isn't on it. Not that I expect him to be a saint, but it would just tarnish everything that I have thought about him, everything I have told my boys he's about. Do I want them wearing his jersey if he's named?

How do I explain to young kids that their favorite players (they like lotsa guys from lotsa teams thanks to The Bigs on the Wii) have been cheating? Anyone have an idea?

Re: Mitchell himself: I don't think anything he reports, short of a phone book full of names, will carry any weight. A collective "so what" or "is that it" will be heard across the land. And sadly, because I think he's done this on the up-and-up, he going to be accused of conflicts of interest due to his RedSox affiliation...someth ing he should have resigned from prior to starting this endeavor. If Papi and/or Manny was on that list, I wouldn't be upset, mind you.

Re: Bud: He needs to stand up and shoulder the responsibility of not doing enough soon enough. He knew it was an issue in the mid-90's and should have screamed from the mountaintop more often.

Re: Union leadership, Fehr, etc.: You BETTER take some of the heat, too. Yes, your job is to protect your constituency but this would have been protecting them, also.

And for the love of all things holy, will any named player stand up and take responsibility for their actions? Enough of this "unknowingly" crap. Be a man. You're man enough to cash the check. Be man enough to say you took stuff to get in the game or stay in the game. We can handle that. Just take responsibility for yourself.

That's it for now. More sometime tomorrow afternoon, if possible.

Ok the name I think will be on the list that no one has said is Larry Walker. Anyone wanna throw some names out people might not expect?

Tim,
Did your Yankees tip come from a "trusted New York sportswriter?"
As we all know, trusted New York sportswriter, are not to be trusted, are sometimes not from New York, and are often not sportswriters.

I also predict the Mitchell Report will be 50 pages of how Kevin Mitchell used steroids.

David Segui who was named by Jason Grimsley, says he will be named in the Mitchell Report.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-segui1210,0,2089074.story

I hope this is good day not a bad one when we look back at it. I hope it's the day that players in all sports realize there will be serious consequences for using performance enhancing drugs (though it'll probably be a paper tiger). That they have to take more seriously their impact on an impressionable younger generation of players. My kid's only 2 so I haven't had to have that talk yet about not really being able to look up to pro athletes anymore because of the cloud of all this.

What still bothers me most though is that the MLB powers that be (Selig and the other owners) that rode the backs of McGwire and Sosa to bring the game out of the ashes of '94 haven't and won't accept any responsibility for the mess THEY created. Remember "Chicks dig the long ball"? The whole marketing pitch of the game banked on the enhanced performances of those two guys. Now, they want to throw those guys under the bus and act like they were just naive? Bull crap. They owe those guys big time for the financial windfall the game is experiencing right now and they've turned their collective backs on them. Shame on you Bud.

My solution is and will always be, accept the last 20 years '88-'08 as the steroid era. Build the Bud Selig memorial wing on Cooperstown where you can feel free to induct Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, Palmeiro, etc....without any stigma. I'm sorry for guys like Jeter and Greg Maddux, who by physique alone, you can tell didn't juice. You guys are stuck in the "new" wing.

Let me get this straight. Not one person in the major media outlet has seen the report or even heard a name leaked out, but this little blog supposedly has contacts that have?

I call bullshit.

The Rocket is on this list, you watch.

If they are only naming those who have been implicated or named by others, then yes, Clemens will be on the list. No new news here. Check out www.baseballssterioidsera.com for a whole listing of those Admitted, Implicated, and Tested Positive.

Brandon Fahey of the Orioles is probably wholed up in some dingy motel in anytown, usa...registered under an assumed name, hiding from the inevitable media crush that will divulge upon his home at 2pm this afternoon.

TimmyGUNZ, there have already been 5-10 reports sourcing people with knowledge of the report. My guy didn't claim to see the report.

Wow, Yankee fans have got to be the most paranoid fans in sports. Everything is a conspiracy with you people. Games are lost because of umps, bugs, the phase of the moon, et al. If Yankee players are found on this report it's because of Mitchell's affiliation with the Sox. You're all very fragile, aren't you?

For some reason, I don't think Brandon Fahey is the focus of everyone's attention today. Just a hunch.

And FWIW, Tim is not anti-Yankee biased.

ESPN is now reporting Clemens is in it.

I'm not surprised. And is this a bad day for Yankee fans? Do Yankee fans even like Clemens?

I'm a Yankee fan and I am not surprised. Did I like him? Tough question. I rooted for him. Then again, I root for laundry.

"For some reason, I don't think Brandon Fahey is the focus of everyone's attention today. Just a hunch."

I must be thinking of the Ephedra Report...Fahey, Casey Fossum, and crazy Otis Nixon...check their teeth for stomach acid.

"I think the biggest shock is going to be the number of pitchers on the list. People don't think of pitchers when they think of roids, but the fact is they are helped MORE by them than by hitters..." - chrishickman

I agree 100%. The big sluggers naturally get the brunt of the scrutiny, but the pitchers have been just as dirty, if not moreso, all along.

IF that's the list for Ephedra, isn't that an advertisement that it doesn't help much? ;)

I'm a Yanks fan and there will be Sox on the List. Clemens was a Sox. So was Canseco. So was Paxton Crawford. Let's all stop crying about "bias" and realize that this was prevasive and while many players were on the Yanks, they were also on many other teams. Sheffield's toured the MLB. Giambi was an A when got hooked. Jeremy Giambi was on the Sox too. Enough, fellow Yanks fans, crying about Mitchell.

Thats not what I said jnr98. But for Yanks to accuse Mitchell's bias for them having so many possible names is ludicrous. Its widely known they have had a number of roid users in recent history. How many is not known, but they have had more than their fair share of them. Just be glad this list isn't going to name everyone because I'd love to have seen Jeter's name and then all the Yank fans who prop him u pas a God to their kids would look really foolish, which they should be anyways.

Clemens didn't use roids as a Red Sox player, his career was going down the toilet before he left and all of a sudden resurrected his career.

The reason that many prominent Yankees will be named is because they were succesful team during the time of steroid use. The unfortunate thought about this is that if a clubhouse attendent on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays gave up 8 players, would it be as big of a deal.

This is baseball and baseball was flooded with steroids. It doesn't matter who it was and how succsful those players were on whatever teams-

The focus has to be on the issue of steroids, not the issue of who was doing them. Everyone was using steroids.

Hank Aaron on Steroids...

http://www.protrade.com/content/DisplayArticle.html?sp=S8687c664-c2d1-11db-9291-83f05e1a00a7