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Let’s look and what you got for your 20 million dollars. A document that’s 409 pages long seems impressive, it must be packed full of top notch sources, players incites, team official documents, and thousands of hours of depositions from meetings with players.

Guess what? You got squat!!! No, no current players with the exception of Jason Giambi would even talk to you. The MLB Players Union wouldn’t cooperate with you. The teams didn’t release any current test they have, and list of names that we already knew.

Roger Clemens did steroids, what a surprise, 40-year-old pitcher that still throws 90 plus on the gun. Pitching 200 innings a season, sub 3.2 ERA.

Jose Canseco the guy who wrote a book entitled “Juiced” back 2001.

Canseco was written off a disgruntled ex-athlete whose career was over.  Canseco said in his book that 85% of the players were using steroids. He named several players in his book including:  Jason Giambi Rafael Palmeiro Ivan Rodriguez, and Juan Gonzalez. Funny thing about the Mitchell Report. they site Jose Canseco book “Juiced” in their report as one of the sources. In an ironic twist Jose Canseco was denied entrance to the press conference when MLB disclosed the findings from the report. 

Eric Gagne what another surprise, an average pitcher who’s career took off as a closer.  In a strange twist once the drug testing policy started to take hold, the last three seasons he is always hurt and when he pitches his ERA has been terrible, 6.75 last season with the Red Sox.

Barry Bonds is on the list. Do I have to say anything about Mr. Bond’s career and physical chances? I will say this though. Everyone wanted to kill Bonds for “cheating the game” I think a lot of hypocrites out there should practice some balanced journalism and start killing some of these other ballplayers.

Let look at the Mitchell Report top sources:  Brian McNamee, a former trainer for the New York Yankees and former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski.

Radomski pleaded guilty to illegal steroid distribution earlier this year, agreeing to participate with former Senator Mitchell only as part of his plea bargain.

Brian McNamee who was essentially the personal trainer of Andy Pettie and Roger Clemens, Brian McNamee services were not retained after 2002 after he was questioned by police in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a woman in a hotel pool late in the 2001 season. Police said the woman ingested the date-rape drug GHB. Charges were never filed against Mr. McNamee.

So at a rate of basically one million dollars a month you got a report derived from an ex-personal trainer, an ex-club house attendant, and an un-factual book that MLB wouldn’t even acknowledge its author presence at the press conference. Where are the informants from other teams? (Mets and Yankees fans must be pissed) Also did I forget to mention that this report didn’t name Mark McGwire or Sammy Sosa.  That’s some top-notch investigative work Mr. Mitchell.