Mitchell Report on Anabolic Steroids in Baseball

The Mitchell Report on the use of anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs by Major League Baseball players was released to the public today. What a monumental waste of literally millions of dollars and no doubt thousands of hours as the overwhelming majority of information was obtained from the public domain; part-time clerk George Godfrey did a better job documenting steroid use in baseball and did it for free at Baseball’s Steroid Era.

Of course, the big supposed “news” released in the report was expanded testimony by Kirk Radomski and Brian McNamee. Specifically, the extensive details provide by McNamee regarding alleged use of anabolic steroids and growth hormone by Roger Clemens.

The association between McNamee and Clemens along with allegations of steroid use by the latter was widely known for some time. Yawn.

After all, Clemens fired McNamee earlier this year and certainly there was no coincidence. Interestingly, the media and public has always been more than willing to  believe the popular, well-mannered, All-American Roger Clemens achieved his amazing late-career success and performance without the use of performance-enhancing drugs. The only speculation in the blogosphere was whether or not the Mitchell Report would give Clemens “clemency” in the matter. After all, he is a nice and friendly guy in direct contast to the “asshole” of a steroid villain, Barry Bonds who the media/public condemned as a definite steroid-user in all of two seconds.