After hearing and reading all the hubris over the Mitchell Report, I figured I would add my two cents. So as I read the stories in the fish wraps and read articles on the web and listened to the wailing of media and some fans crying “Say it ain’t so Rocket Man” So please allow me to purge my brain with this stream of thoughts:

·        Has anyone heard from Suzyn Waldman? Is she in her garage with the door down and the engine running OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!!!!!

·        I don’t know why I’m not all bent out of shape about players taking PED’s to get an edge or why I’m not thinking of them as cheaters. As much as I despise MF Clemens I can see why he took the juice as his career was on the down side. In fact fromer Red Sox GM Dan Duquette has every right to give a big middle finger salute to Red Sox Nation as he was 100% right when he said MF Clemens was on the downside of his career as we see when he was shipped to Toronto and he started juicing he got himself back in the game.  But take a look at this list, talk about your C and D List ballplayers. Most of these guys juiced up just to stay from being career minor leaguers. Last night on SPORTSTALKNY host Mark Rosenman brought up the name Kevin Baez. Baez was a Mets farm hand (shortstop)in the 90’s who got just about a cup of coffee in the big leagues. Baez could never make that jump from Triple A to the ML so maybe if he used a PED he would have and had the opportunity to make at least 1 or 2 million a year as a backup infielder. But he made the choice not to. Some guys like Mark Carreon, and Matt Franco did and it looks like it was the difference in playing in the big leagues than the bushes. When I was in high school, after graduation my baseball coach told me of a try out camp the Philadelphia Phillies were having in Central Park. I knew I had no shot but I went anyway. When I got to the field and saw kids my age 6’2 or 6’3 with speed and power (the three things I lacked) I knew it was time to take the test for the NYPD or FDNY.  So I can sympathize with a player doing by what ever means necessary to make the jump.

·        Now don’t take that as me condoning taking PED’s as I don’t especially teenagers who I worry about more than pro athletes as I see the kind of pressure parents put on some kids  to become the next Jeter or Wright instead of wanting them to be the next John Grisham or Jonas Salk. This talk of athletes being role models is a crock of shit. A child’s role model should be his parents if it’s not you have a real serious problem.

·        How about Paul LoDuca named in this report? I have to admit at first I was taken aback by it but then I thought about it and I said “of course it makes perfect sense”. No so much that the Mets treated him like an Amish kid leaving the family farm but that as a catcher you need something to rejuvenate your batter body come August and September so HgH is the way to go for that.  Another guy giving out a one finger salute is former Dodger GM Paul DePodesta who was raked over the coals for dealing the heart and soul of the Dodgers to Florida. In the report it mentions that the Dodgers knew of LoDuca’s juicing and when he came off it his production went way down so when he went to the Marlins they knew he’d go back on a cycle of drugs just to show them they made a mistake. I guess he was off them last year as he broke down like a cheap claming horse. Very shrewd there Omar.

·        I am a proud union member (Communication Workers of America Local 1180) and I support every union in this country (The one time I was proud to be a Staten Islander was when Wal –Mart was forced to not open on the Island as they are anti union and SI is a very big union boro) but the union works for the workers not the other way around. Some big name, high profile players need to call a meeting of the rank and file and work out a way to negotiate a drug testing plan that preserves their rights and protects the game. The rank and file has to tell Fehr and Orza what they want and stop these to lawyers from making them look like assholes. The last thing baseball players need is another trip to Capital Hill.

·        Which brings me to Congress. Please Henry Waxman and Tom Davis go away. If you guys have no other important business in D.C. then find a public rest room to hang out in. No more dog and pony shows as a tax paying American I beg you STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

·          Yes I know for a guy who said he didn’t care about the Mitchell Report I have a lot to say about it (910 words)  so I’m full of shit just like the players.   

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