Drugs, Baseball and Congress.

Everybody knows the story of the Mitchell Report, a senator is sent to investigate steroids in baseball. He comes back with a list of names totaling less than 100. Everybody lauds it as a success, but wait examine it more closely. People are calling this a perfect example that baseball has a drug problem but if that’s so why were there so few names and so few sources (he had only two main sources). And hold on isn’t Mitchell a member of the Red Sox front office convenient then that no major Red Sox of any era appeared in the report. Everybody jumps all over names like Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, and Jason Giambi saying “look these were the stars of the game and they were on steroids well this taints everything about baseball for me”. Come on people if you honestly thought that those four were not on steroids then you’ve been living in a box for the past decade. For Bonds, Canseco, and Giambi just look at the photos of them in their early careers and then later for Clemens look at the stats they decline almost to a point of mediocrity before he came to Toronto, by the way thanks Roger for using us as a financial pit stop, then all of a sudden, BAM, his numbers are incredible again. Then read Mr. McNamees statement which tells that he gave the steroids to Clemons in Toronto, which of course Clemons denies. It’s not a small coincidence that his numbers jumped. Face it folks this era will always be known as the steroids era despite our best intentions Bonds still broke Aaron’s record whether he cheated or not so let it go baseball will attempt to clean up probably fail eventually everyone will just accept it because when everyone is doing it nobody gets an advantage.