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Mitchell Report Finally Arrives

A few months ago I posted this entry on the steroids scandal in baseball where I implied that Roger Clemens may have been juiced as well. While George Mitchell’s recently report does not confirm any of these superstitions, it does reinforce my argument that hitters such as Barry Bonds were not the only ones using performance enhancing drugs. What makes Clemens’s case seem so egregious if confirmed is the complicity of owners who kept on bringing him back to outlandish salaries over the past three years even though simple logic suggests that a pitcher of his age and skill set should have seen their skills severely diminished. It goes without saying that baseball's troubles will only get messier over the next few months before it gets better. Still, one has to be disheartened that in spite of all the controversy and sportscasters claims that fans will turn on the sport and these athletes, baseball posted 6 billion dollars in revenue this past season. Therefore if anyone wants a reason why owners have done very little to curtail the permeation of steroids in their locker rooms, we now know that they have 6 billion reasons.
Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 08:36PM by Registered CommenterFerentz in , | CommentsPost a Comment

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