Mitchell Report Day! Ready for Old News Repackaged as Fresh News? Cause That’s What This Roger Clemens Business Is
Baseball, Drugs December 13th. 2007, 11:17am
There’s really no news to report at this time. Will the list really “rock” baseball? The guess here is that maybe it will for a few hours … and then we’ll turn our attention back to the Patriots and their quest for immortality. Still not sure why the New York papers are so stunned to see all these connections to Roger Clemens. (This is now BREAKING NEWS on ESPN. Gimmie a break. This is OLD NEWS. Jason Grimsley sold him out in 2006.) And this “several prominent Yankees” business is so overrated. Will Giambi, Rocket and Pettitte really surprise people? Maybe people that missed the Oct. 2006 report in the LA Times will be surprised.
ESPN’s new investigative dynamic duo spoke to a few people who have seen the report, but … there’s no actual news to be found. (Here’s a popular list of names that is circulating, but we sure as hell hope it’s more interesting than that.) Speaking of names … what’s the over/under on Scott Boras clients that are named? He’s got about 20 (not sure how accurate that list is), so should we set the line at three?
And lastly, our baseball friend (we’ll unveil his revenue-sharing idea soon) actually had a 1-on-1 “serious” Mitchell Investigation draft (the kind that goes 1-2-2-1-1-2-2-1 etc), and after the jump, how it panned out:
Other Guy – Barry Bonds
The Baseball Friend – Jason Giambi
The Baseball Friend – Mark McGwire
Other Guy – Sammy Sosa
Other Guy – Troy Glaus
The Baseball Friend – Jose Canseco
The Baseball Friend – Juan Gonzalez
Other Guy – Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez
The Baseball Friend – David Segui
Other Guy – Gary Matthews Jr.
The Baseball Friend – Wilson Alvarez
Other Guy – Matt Williams
The Baseball Friend – Jeremy Giambi
Other Guy – Bret Boone
The Baseball Friend – Ken Caminiti
Other Guy – Luis Gonzalez
The Baseball Friend – Gary Sheffield
Other Guy – Miguel Tejada
The Baseball Friend – Randy Velarde
Other Guy – Brady Anderson
The Baseball Friend – Lenny Dykstra
Other Guy – Ruben Sierra
The Baseball Friend – Greg Vaughn
Other Guy – Benito Santiago
The Baseball Friend – David Bell
Other Guy – Ismael Valdez
The Baseball Friend – Scott Schoeneweis
Other Guy – Armando Rios
The Baseball Friend – Chuck Finley
Other Guy – Bobby Estalella
The Baseball Friend – Brian Roberts
Other Guy – Darren Holmes
The Baseball Friend – Brian Giles
Other Guy – Andres Galarraga
The Baseball Friend – Marvin Bernard
Other Guy – Shawn Green
The Baseball Friend – Jeromy Burnitz
Other Guy – Gabe Kapler
The Baseball Friend – Phil Nevin
Other Guy – Jose Mesa
The Baseball Friend – Richard Hidalgo
Other Guy – Roger Clemens
The Baseball Friend – Darin Erstad
Other Guy – Mickey Tettleton
The Baseball Friend – Ray Lankford
Other Guy – Jim Leyritz
The Baseball Friend – Rich Aurilia
Other Guy – Mark Wohlers
The Baseball Friend – Jay Buhner
Other Guy – Fernando Tatis
The Baseball Friend – Jerry Hairston Jr.
Other Guy – Billy Wagner
The Baseball Friend – Ellis Burks
Other Guy – Todd Hundley
The Baseball Friend – Ozzie Canseco
Other Guy – Geronimo Berroa
11 Responses to “Mitchell Report Day! Ready for Old News Repackaged as Fresh News? Cause That’s What This Roger Clemens Business Is”
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December 13th, 2007 at 11:30 am
WAIT WAIT WAIT! ESPN is repackaging old news and presenting it as something different. What is this world coming?!?!?!?! Sleeper pick=Curt Schilling
December 13th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Kenny Lofton has been receiving DHL packages full of steroids for centuries.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:36 am
who cares if baseball players used steroids before there was testing? they made baseball more fun to watch.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:39 am
1. This means nothing. All the players implicated will deny it, claim they took it unknowingly, or say it wasn’t illegal when they did it.
2. Reggie Jackson is still the straw that stirs the drink.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Wow, so this is what baseball has come to, huh. Guessing which guys ‘roided. Is it any wonder why the NFL is this country’s top sport now?
December 13th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Yeah in the NFL we don’t have to guess, they all took HGH, hence the sport is bigger, faster, and more entertaining.
Give baseball some credit for actually investigating, instead of ignoring like the other sports.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I’m fine with whatever happens so long as Omar Moreno’s fine name isn’t dragged through the mud.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Next thing they’ll tell us is that Tom Cruise is gay, Mel Gibson’s a racist, Bill Clinton is a poon hound and Dick Vitale likes Duke basketball. Wake me when the arrest Clemens, cut off his right arm, only to find that its really the mechanical arm of Darth Vader, and make him give back all the Cy Youngs and be put on public display held in Old New England style stocks at Fenway for bystanders to throw rotten vegetables at.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
“Mitchell Report Day! Ready for Old News Repackaged as Fresh News? Cause That’s What This Roger Clemens Business Isâ€
Great headline.
Sidenote, a caller on WFAN just said, “I think Doug Mankowitz will be on the list.”
The amount of idiots on that radio station today is unprecedented.
December 13th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
What happens if Manny Ramirez or Curt Schilling are on “The List”?
December 13th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
The NFL owes a great deal of its top-dog status to gambling. Ironically, like steroid use, gambling is illegal except in certain limited circumstances. If there were no point spreads and office pools, the NFL would be a lot less popular. It’s also marketed a lot better than baseball.