Tell Me Something I Didn't Know

With the Mitchell report being released yesterday, it was the hot topic of conversation for sports media and national media outlets everywhere. Why was this story such a surprise? We all knew it was coming and we all new there would be big-time names and potential future Hall-of-Famers on the list.

This doesn't change what has happened over the last number of years. To see Barry Bonds or Sammy Sosa go from looking like virtual skeletons to having Schwarzenneger-type guns, we all knew this was happening and that it was rampant. The performances and pictures told the true story.

What some are looking at correctly, is why this report was even completed or came out. This report was basically a way for Bud Selig to try and rehab his legacy as he begins his exit as baseball commissioner over the next number of years. Nothing positive came out from this report for Baseball, it's players, or it's history. But, Selig can now say he did his best to curb these issues.

I call B.S.!!!

This Mitchell Report is just a front for him to say that he tried his best to stop it. He is as much responsible for all of this as are all the players, trainers, GM's, and other commissioners who let this get so bad. There were scrubs like Adam Piatt and FP Santangelo using perfomance enhancing substances just as much as Bonds and Roger Clemens. Sure, a lot of the information in the report is hearsay from trainers or former teammates, but to see some of these athletes bodies changing enormously from 25 to 45 for the better, thus becoming almost superhuman playing their best baseball in the tail end of their careers in their 40s, showed how obvious it was that there were performance enhancing drugs involved.

Shame on you Mr. Selig for using this report as a cover for your real intent to help save your image.

Baseball is a joke and has been for quite sometime, and all it takes is to look at the leadership and see why.