Comments on: Buy me some peanuts and HGH

By: perry

perry — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:58:47 +0000

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By: torrey

torrey — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:47:26 +0000

good column, Pete. It would be nice if more voices started saying the same thing.

On another note, I wonder if Andy could say that the date is too close to spring training, and he needs a different date which does not interfere with his profession.

By: Jones

Jones — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:31:49 +0000

Mitchell Report = Counterproductive waste of time and money. Selig should resign.

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:37:10 +0000

Although it pains me to say it, Peter and the media in general are merely doing their job. They shouldn’t be scrutinized for as much…its what they get paid to do.

It is ridiculous that Congress would change the date to the day before pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training. How silly is that?

Does Pettitte have to go? Would he do better to go or does it really matter at this point? He admitted it. If I am Pettitte, I focus solely on baseball and my family and that is it. Screw Congress, screw Mitchell, and above all, screw the Boston Red Sox.

By: JoeT YANKEES

JoeT YANKEES — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:29:03 +0000

Pete i haven’t been here long but this is definitely the best post i’ve seen on here

it happened, everybody knows it happened, getting a red sox executive to talk to the Yankees clubhouse guy doesn’t prove anything……… get over it and play ball.

By: Annie Savoy

Annie Savoy — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:11:28 +0000

Seems like ‘Old Yanks Fan’ is one of very few posters here who understands what has happened here. Selig was put on notice to get things cleaned up or Congress will revoke the anti trust exclusion.

I’m also amazed by those who want to sweep it under the rug, and by so many of you who condone lying.

Please watch the hearings.

By: MelkMan28

MelkMan28 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:37:12 +0000

Does anyone else think it is ridiculous that only Yankees are being singled out in this congressional hearing? I understand Clemens being asked to testify, but why Pettitte or Knoblauch? Pettitte only did it a couple of times and he admitted it. What more do they want from him? And out of all the other players named in the Mitchell Report, what makes Chuck Knoblauch so distinguishable? It’s bad enough the bulk of the Mitchell Report was biased against the Yankees. I guess like Mitchell, most members of Congress are also Yankee haters.

By: Bronx Liaison

Bronx Liaison — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:03:08 +0000

LOL @ Rebecca

I concur.

By: Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Save the Three Musketeers!

Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Save the Three Musketeers! — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:25:05 +0000

http://us.cnn.com/2008/TECH/01.....index.html

Okay , the idea of Curt Schilling as a gamer… *shudder*

By: Old Yanks Fan

Old Yanks Fan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:19:19 +0000

Pete – People have known now for years that PEDs were a serious issue that needed to be resolved. The congressional hearings with Mark, Sammy, et al, certainly drove home that it was not just a small sports story. And while since then, the testing and punishment process was made stricker, it was just a drop in the bucket compared to what could have been done to try and rid the sport of PEDs.

What new has come from the Mitchell Report? Nothing really. We got some names, but we knew that they, and many, many others existed, just not exactlty who they were

What should be well known, has been expressed here, and expressed many other blogs, is that Selig used to report as a smokescreen to draw attention away from his own incompetance in addressing this issue long, long ago. The ‘big names’ are simply a distraction for the press to play with, as we are seeing know.

What bothers me is that the press, the professionals, the people who make a living writing about the game, have not seriously called out Selig, and Fehr. Why should Buds ‘criminal behavior’ be all over the blogosophere, but get so little atttension from professional writers? Why is the press sitting by and letting Andy, Roger, Bonds and everyone else take all the heat for a systemic problem that was Buds job to deal with. Why are so few calling for Buds resignation? Why is no one holding him accountable? Why is there not more discussion about the ‘Mitchell Witch hunt’ offering very little in terms of real progress in addressing this issue.

Pete – Don’t you think your profession has some obligation to be straight here and call Bud out? Maybe it won’t sell as many papers of generate as many hits, but the fans and the players deserve to hear Bud, and Fehr, and the owners and baseball establishment get their deserved share of the blame.

I think the press has been terribly negligent in their reporting of this issue.