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I just pray that Alvaro Espinoza is not named. You need some illusions to get by.

So, Yankees fans, how are you going to feel if any of the "beloved" Yankees are fingered in this report?
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Somewhere between apathetic and indifferent... Never was part of the "torch and pitchfork" crowd, and I don't plan on joining them anytime soon.

Given the interviews linked by River Ave Blues today, it seems like anyone "named" by the Mitchell Report could be completely on the basis of guessing and speculation. It's the Red Hunt all over again... and the goal is simply to churn up big names. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if there are Yankees on the list, especially considering Mitchell is on the Red Sox payroll...

Further, I really don't care if anyone took performance enhancing drugs before they were banned. Good job gaining an edge and helping my favorite team win, I say.

Red hunt? Except that Senator Joe McCarthy was right, as was HUAC. If you had bothered to read the articles after the breakup of the USSR, when the KGB files were released, that proved McCarthy was correct.

How anbody can be sanguine with absolute cheaters is beyond me. Sticking needles into their nether regions for gain & fame. Not to mention likely shortening their lives. Or did you never read about the death rates for Soviet athletes who were on PED's?

How anbody can be sanguine with absolute cheaters is beyond me. Sticking needles into their nether regions for gain & fame. Not to mention likely shortening their lives.
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"If there was a pill that could guarantee you would win 20 games but would take five years off of your life, players would take it." - Jim Bouton, Ball Four

To anyone who makes the claim that steroids are performance enhancers, I say prove their case.

Prove that any player's use of steroids improved his stats above any effect that opposing pitchers (or hitters) use of steroids decreased the players stats.

If it really is the case that steroids do increase players stats, then this should be an easy case to prove.

The Mitchell Report is the biggest waste of time and money since the Whitewater Investigation. The only people who even care about this list are miserable folks like Chris Russo, who doesn't give a damn about the game and just wants ammo to attack people he doesn't like. It's getting downright revolting how the media is licking its chops, waiting on the names so they can "shame" players. Frankly, who cares what went on in the past? What's the point of revisiting that? People did steroids -- we know. It's time to move beyond that.

Also, if you've read reports on how this investigation was done, apparently a dozen investigators were out there talking to strength coaches and simply asking them to "guess" who was on 'roids. So is some player going to get listed just because a trainer thought he had too much acne on his back?

This is just another example of Bud Selig trying to cover his ass and rewrite history. He needs to look to the future and make sure steroids and all PEDs are out of the game -- it's time for him to accept that he was the "steroid commissioner" and move on already.

Red hunt? Except that Senator Joe McCarthy was right, as was HUAC. If you had bothered to read the articles after the breakup of the USSR, when the KGB files were released, that proved McCarthy was correct.
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By the way, Don, congrats on being the only person I've ever seen defend Joseph McCarthy (outside of Ann Coulter).

"However, there are few, if any, cases where McCarthy was responsible for identifying a person, or removing a person from a sensitive government position, where later evidence has increased the likelihood that that person was a Communist or a Soviet agent."

Red hunt? Except that Senator Joe McCarthy was right, as was HUAC. If you had bothered to read the articles after the breakup of the USSR, when the KGB files were released, that proved McCarthy was correct.

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If you had bothered to, uh, I don't know, read those articles correctly, you'd realize you're wrong. Yes, the State Department had a red "problem"--in the early 1920s. McCarthy stirred up fears about a problem that had been largely purged before WWII, made up names to name, and struck gold once with Alger Hiss (and that itself was mostly bad theater). Any communist spies operating during McCarthy's time had nothing to do with the limited intelligence information available to a Senator from Wisconsin--for instance, the list "grew" by about 200 names during a bender in Vegas, no doubt an international intelligence hub. Saying McCarthy was right is really stretching the credibility of the word.

McCarthy also hold the noble distinction of having fired the most bullets during WWII. This is completely a function of his having known there was a record and demanding to be flown out into the South Pacific where he'd fire his plane's machine guns into the water. Plus he forged his mission records and faked a war wound.

Oh, and thanks for your wienery, blow-hard rhetoric--I still can't believe I'd "never" read those articles!!! Hope those two sports management "classes" you did at JuCo really helped.

If some Yankees are mentioned ,I wouldn't be surprised BUT with Mitchell guiding this investigation I wonder how many Red Sox show up on the list.It is amazing that someone that has such a conflict of interest can be involved in this weighty matter.If we see 10 Yankees and all but one token Red Sox you will see an outcry from Yankeeland...no doubt.