Comments on: Selig should be careful with punishment

By: Zach (on the Port Jeff Ferry)

Zach (on the Port Jeff Ferry) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:26:15 +0000

awesome job yesterday pete! Your blog alone makes the purchase of my iPhone worth it. Get some rest.

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:55:21 +0000

Tucson, I don’t think anyone — the fans, Selig, the owners, players — believe the report covers everyone. They are not trying to delude anyone. They are simply saying we looked into it — long and hard — and this is what we came up with. It’s the best they could do without subpoena power and cooperative parties. And as a fan, I’m satisfied with what Mitchell did as long as they use the report as a springboard to more diligent and stricter monitoring, testing and policies. And I believe they will. This is no PR ploy. It’s an attempt to understand the past better and put the game into better context. They succeeded.

By: DC

DC — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:41:37 +0000

Why didn’t the Mitchell report go after Selig? His office knew what was going on for years and did nothing. Now after this report, Selig will turn into General Patton.

By: DC

DC — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:38:20 +0000

What should now be investigated and how the feeble report, based on the info given by a club house guy facing prison, cost over $25 million to generate. Maybe Mitchell should now be investigated. $25 million to interview one low life a photo copy checks?

By: Tucson Ken

Tucson Ken — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:26:23 +0000

I have no reason to attribute bad motives to this investigation, however it is clearly hugely incomplete & that many MULTIPLES of those cited are truly involved. I feel that those cited more than likely are guilty in varying degrees, but that it would be a travesty of justice to PUNISH only this tip of the iceberg, while SO MANY MORE who were involved but not cited get to skate, unblemished. Based on the results of the % who have been caught in anonymous positive testing over the years we KNOW these folks represent only a small % of the REAL #.
Selig would be tickled pink to have us believe that this is it when in his heart he knows how much more pervasive & prevalent it was, with the TACIT APPROVAL & BLESSING of ALL those involved in MLB for many, many, years. Selig & everyone deserves punishment as much as the fools shooting up.
Declare AMNESTY for all past transgressions & MOVE ON & try & ensure a different future if you really want to end the “Steroid Era”.
Personally I believe it is a losing proposition unless you keep BLOOD samples from all for FUTURE repeated testings for newer drugs that are constantly being developed by chemists trying to stay one step ahead of the testers in any case.
CYCLING gets all the bad press because they have been SERIOUS about catching folks for years. IMO, MLB & NFL testing has been a joke for years, & that has only made folks more likely to fall prey to temptation & try to keep up with their competition.
Don’t buy this weak PR ploy as more than window dressing to take the heat away from Selig & his cronies. THEY created what they wound up with by their very
inaction, & they can not be allowed to punish a few in hopes of DELUDING the public into thinking abuse was on a much smaller scale than it truly was & these FEW represent a renegade culture when it was far more widespread.

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:35:47 +0000

**Beyond that, suspending players based on hearsay evidence is tricky business.**

The players implicated in the report with simply hearsay evidence are very few. I believe less than a handful. There was MUCH MUCH MORE than hearsay evidence on most of the players including Clemens and Pettitte. Further, Selig is not likely to discipline the few players implicated with simply hearsay evidence. For anyone to try to distort the nature of the report with such characterizations belies their own biases. I realize the author is the Yankee beat reporter, but I would expect more objectivity out of a journalist instead of a “circle the wagons” mentality.

By: BJ

BJ — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:31:15 +0000

**Canceled checks mean nothing unless there is a specific statement on the check saying what it is compensation for.**

Not true. In a court of law they are evidence that a jury would believe unless the defense could credibly impeach it. Good luck explaining to a jury why a baseball player would be repeatedly sending checks for hundred and thousands of dollars to someone like Radomski and then shortly thereafter receiving courier packages (backed up by receipts).

By: E-ROC

E-ROC — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:44:05 +0000

rolloff–Tell me what HGH does to the body.

By: rolloff

rolloff — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:31:10 +0000

What drug would Brian Roberts be on?

Have you ever heard of HGH????

By: E-ROC

E-ROC — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:22:15 +0000

LOL @ Brandon.