Friday, December 14, 2007

First Glance at the Mitchell Report

When you consider how many steroid users in baseball got their stuff from Kirk Radomski alone, it becomes apparent that this is but the tip of the iceberg. It's also quite staggering to see how many people left such and obvious paper trail - gives the impression that players weren't that embarrassed to be steroid users. Or that baseball players are the biggest idiots in the world - Larry Bigbie wrote "supplements" on the subject line of a check. What a moron.

The evidence itself ranges from hearsay to damning.

Clemens stands out in particular because his section is so long. Most damning is that he was particularly close to Brian McNamee, even convincing the Yankees to hire him in 2000. McNamee's story is that he stuck a needle in Clemens' butt multiple times to give him steroids.

The inclusion of checks, priority mail packing slips, etc, shows how much of a paper trail Radomski kept. Do all steroids dealers keep such extensive records? Seemingly, Radomski felt if he had to go down, he'd take everyone else down with him.

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