The Mitchell Report Was Long Overdue

I think its cute the way each ESPN analyst (I guess you could call them that) today, one right after the other, were so quick to dismiss the Mitchell report. Inane useless analysts like Jayson Stark and Gene Wojciechowski,  and all the ones making spot appearances today to voice their opinion like David Cornwell. It’s the support of useless gutless opinions like theirs by ESPN that is the reason commentators with real guts like the Kansas City Star’s Jason Whitlock, are dismissed by ESPN has analysts. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve often thought of Whitlock’s editorials has tabloid trash, but at least he has the guts to tell the truth sometimes even if he’s wrong a lot of the time also.

The Report in question is the one by senator George Mitchell released this week, the one commissioner Bud Selig asked to be done, the one that is based on 2 years of investigation, more than 700 witnesses, and eye-witness testimony. To all baseball fans though it comes has no surprise, a quick look at baseball statistics over the last 20 years or so gives an almost exact reveal of when the drug abuse started and then began to decline. Or if you want to believe players like Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are Gods whose body’s suddenly rejuvenate in their mid to late 30’s then I’m sure you will go on believing that, also I have some land I would like to sell you.

So yes the ESPN analysts are right, the report is no big surprise, but they are wrong when they say it wasn’t necessary and that’s where reality and fact differentiate, because the fact is the report was not only necessary but long overdue. Also long overdue is the firing of Donald Fehr as the player’s union representative, and if the players had any leadership or sense at all, they would fire him immediately. To stand there at a press conference and act innocent like steroids never existed, to act like the players are the victim, is calling baseball fans stupid. Then again, fans continue to give these greedy overpaid players and owners their hard earned cash despite the obviousness of steroid use now and in the past two decades.

Fehr did say the report was right about calling for immediate and better oversight of many things involving the use of steroids in baseball, saying in hindsight it seems obvious. Well no shit Sherlock! If everybody is right and this report was unnecessary THEN WHY HASN’T ANYONE DONE ANYTHING!! ooohh…. Baseball started random steroid tests during the season a couple years ago,…. wow, that was really something. It’s such hypocrisy, everyone is a victim and this is all unnecessary, that kind of attitude is so stupidly redundant and useless.

So baseball fans, especially ones with kids, wake up and boycott baseball events and merchandise until a widespread intense overhaul of steroid use in baseball is implemented. Well I guess if you want to watch 40 year old players fry their brain and create a culture of drug use which will dominate sports until who knows when and get paid $20 million a year to do it, I guess that’s up to you.