Need some comic relief? Check out yesterday's entry at MNGameday blog. Bat-Girl is back -- she wrote a text-message exchange between Theo Epstein and the new Twins GM that I'm sure would be music to your readers' ears. Great stuff.
I heard this morning that some congressional commmittee is going to hold hearings on the Mitchell report. I ask a simple question: Why? Politicians, in my view, have nothing positive to contribute in this matter.
I heard the Tek thing and Immediately thought of you. 
Was glad it got corrected.
Don't sweat Mo, he did it at the end of his career in NY when he was tripping out of the dugout. Boston Mo was clean.
The thing that I think is being missed by some is that these were players who they could verify had taken roids or HGH based on the Nazi-like record keeping of a single supplier. There were other suppliers who were less meticulous. A player not on the list is certainly not now proven clean.
This episode will be Bud's legacy. He can change how he is perceived by history by actually doing something in response. The player's association sounded pathetic in their response last nite; this may be Bud's opening.
As for Congress, they can step in because Baseball has anti-trust protection. The MLBPA has to be careful because if they don't back down to Bud on this, Congress can step in and destroy both the owners and the players.
The downside of all of this is that from now until after next WS all we'll hear about baseball is "roids this; HGH that."
The anti-trust exemption is a flimsy excuse, a pretext, for congressional grandstanding and showboating. The congresspersons will be able to display their sanctimoniousness and their preening self-indulgence and accomplish exactly nothing of substance.
That's probably true, but Congress was pissed after the last set of hearings. This topic may be more interesting than the election so Congress may stick their nose in deeper.
Congress can coast on ending a stupid war costing a trillion bucks and killing people to boot, so what will make them get serious about improper use of pharmaceuticals in baseball? I don't see angry people in the streets or yellow ribbon stickers on cars saying "Support our national pastime, clean up baseball", or "Keep gonads full-size - ban fake hormones". Maybe I don't drive in the right neighborhoods. I don't know that a few hyped-up blog watchers like me can twist their arms to do anything.
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