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The Mitchell report cited Theo as having some degree of advance knowledge about Gagne's possible PED usage, yet he acquired him anyway. That has to be an important focus of Selig's inquiry. If not, then the charges of an anti-Yankee bias would be lent credibility.

I wouldnt put anything past Bud Selig. I watched him bumble and stumble his way around Congress today, talking about how "he did" the Mitchell Report so people couldnt say "What are you hiding" when we all know Bud was looking to cover his own behind and put the blame on someone else. He had no problem ruining the investigation's credibility by hiring a Red Sox employee to run the investigation and he would have no problem if any anti-Yankee bias became credible by going after the Yankees and ignoring the Red Sox. In fact, he certainly had no problem with the leak of Paul Byrd name's on the Mitchell Report right before Game 7 of last year's ALCS so why would he care if Theo had advance knowledge of possible HGH use when trading for Gagne. I expect Bud will ignore Mitchell's suggestion to not punish past PED users and try to come down hard on Pettitte since Andy admitted it. You can expect Andy to be missing 50 games next year.

He can try to punish Andy, but the fact is that the players union would hit him so hard he would be forced to retire. So please, Bud, try to come after players who did HGH before MLB officially banned it. Baseball fans as a whole would welcome your public humiliation.

There is no comparison between Andy and Paul Byrd situations, but by any standard Paul Byrd should not pitch again for at least a year. Remember, he would not deny using up to and including the 2007 post season. He said it was a 'private matter.'If a single thing happens to Andy in this pr stunt, it will make any player in the future keep quiet about anything he does, especially if it's while on the DL once 5 or 6 years ago. They keep saying how good it would be if players admitted certain things, but look what has been done to Andy Pettitte. Not one word about Paul Byrd. And Brian Roberts either, which was steroids and not HGH, but it seems he would've been better off keeping quiet too.

Just from the few sound bytes aired on the radio, it seems that Congress, namely Waxman, gave Selig and Fehr a veritable pass today. It truly amazes me how the Mitchell report is being hailed as this landmark triumph in the war on 'roids, dubious credibility and all. What an utter charade. Pure window dressing until it is agreed by all parties that blood sampling will be the new standard by which players are tested.

Selig can't come after Pettitte and Pettitte knew it, no doubt, when he 'fessed up. HGH wasn't banned by MLB at the time. Selig cannot retroactively suspend/fine Pettitte for something that wasn't even against baseball's rules at the time of the offense.

It would be like giving someone a ticket for smoking in a bar in 2001.

The only people who will get in trouble are those who clearly and definitively used 'roids after '03.

This idea that GMs are going to come forward because they think certain players are using steroids is ridiculous. They can't say anything prior to signing a guy because players and agents would shut them out, and they can't say it about someone on their roster because they probably don't want to lose that player and they also don't want to be a rat, which would lose him the clubhouse.

Sometimes politicians and lawyers need to remember they are dealing with human beings in real situations. You can't ask people in baseball to guess who's using 'roids and then run to Bud Selig, who apparently loves nothing more than killing his sport to get patted on the back by congressmen.