What I think about it is that it's a witch hunt, pure and simple. Baseball, for years and years, not only looked the other way but actually rewarded players who used artificial substances. And now, retroactively, we're going to call the players cheaters and absolve the holier-than-thou owners? Mitchell, in his press conference (there are advantages to being off work due to snow) was quite clear that the focus now should be on better testing and education going forward and not on investigating every name that's ever been mentioned. But I fear that the public focus is going to be on the names. And, worse, a fake list was circulating on newsgroups and bulletin boards earlier today, easily recognizeable by a typo in one of the player's names. So anyone who's on the fake list but not mentioned in the Mitchell report is likely to be tarred with the same brush.
ETA Not all of the players named were named for steroids. Some were implicated in use of Human Growth Hormone, and there might have been other substances as well. Furthermore, the terms of the report don't differentiate one-time use from chronic use.
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Date: 2007-12-13 08:27 pm (UTC)ETA Not all of the players named were named for steroids. Some were implicated in use of Human Growth Hormone, and there might have been other substances as well. Furthermore, the terms of the report don't differentiate one-time use from chronic use.