My Last Mitchell Report Posting
Throughout the last year or so, many of us have touched on-at least with some regularity-the Steroid Investigation in MLB. I have never hidden my feelings that the report is pretty bogus, and there are serious flaws in the system.
Among them, a person with a financial interest in a team heading the investigation. None the less, MLB did need to do something and you have to credit them for trying-regardless of how flawed the report is.
That of course is the $64K question...how flawed is the report? I am confident the information in the report, as it has been laid out, is accurate. There was such a desire by the players union (with a little change being a good thing from time to time, maybe now would be a good time for them to consider moving Don Fehr elsewhere) to not allow players to talk to the investigators, and with MLB continuing to do everything except own up to their portion of the responsibility, there is no way of ever knowing how tainted the Mitchell report is.
I am not usually the guy who advocates for government investigations, but I think the US Congress should bring in anyone who appeared in a Major League game between 1990 and 2007 and see what shakes out. Then maybe everyone involved on a league and union level will be forced to actually make changes that impact the game.
I concur, The Mitchell Report was a sham. MLB having proven incapable of investigating themselves in any meaningful way, Congress needs to intervene. The one thing Mitchell got right: this issue affects our youth. That is justification for government interest.
Michael Norton - Some Clubhouse
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