No Surprises Here With MLB Drug Report Release

We saw the players balloon up through the nineties with our own eyes while we also saw most of baseballs most hallowed records fall ultimately to nothing more than drug users as the baseball hierarchy stood by doing absolutely nothing.

Now the hammer falls and the damage to MLB is irreversible this time, unlike they strike aftermath that allowed this era to flourish as baseball closed it's eyes to the problem relishing the home run derby's that were winning back the public.

They'll run out of ink putting asterisks next to all the tainted records, the tainted World Series outcomes, the tainted All Star Games on and on.

I've written a number of times about Barry Bonds and his juiced up chase of the Great Hank Aaron's home run record, as here in a story that was picked up by USA Today, and I make no bones that I personally gave up watching the sport after years of playing all my childhood through high school along with 30 plus years of attending Cubs and White Sox games as a result of the obvious cheating going on. There are no current Cubs or Sox contained within the report and surprisingly Sammy Sosa is barely mentioned at all and many though he was juiced for the latter part of his career including myself, so this is a bit of a surprise in Chicago this morning.

It will be a long time coming before I trust the players and the outcomes of their games ever again after their obvious self serving foot dragging in this area by the Commissioner's office.

The damage done to the sport and it's legacy is irreparable in my opinion, at least until all the guilty parties are removed from the league at once and Bonds' tainted home run record stripped and returned back to Aaron at the very minimum along with other broken records by tainted athletes.

So it's a sad day in Mudville indeed for the once great national pastime..it's been headed downhill for a long time like everything else in the world and our declining society as a whole at the moment. This anything goes for the almighty dollar world in which we now live.

MLB Drug Report Hits Clemens the Hardest:

My Way News - "NEW YORK (AP) - Seven MVPs and 31 All-Stars - one for every position - and that still wasn't the worst of it for the long-awaited Mitchell Report. That infamy belonged to Roger Clemens, the greatest pitcher of his era. The Steroids Era.

Seven-time Cy Young Award winner, eighth on the all-time list with 354 victories, an MVP and All-Star himself and once a lock for the Hall of Fame, Clemens now has another distinction: the biggest name linked by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs." continued

Mitchell: 'Wide-spread' Steroid Use In Baseball

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