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After taking some time to digest all the pertinent information that was given to us by George Mitchell I say, is this what we were waiting for? To hear a bunch of names that don’t play anymore and the majority of them either at one time plaed for basically three teams, NY Mets and Yankees and the LA Dodgers. Yes the big fish that got caught in the net was Roger Clemens that was a coup for me, see ” Who is this Man”. A story I wrote sometime ago. I had always figured that Clemens had been on something but everytime I would bring up his name someone would bring up Nolan Ryan. A good 70% of the list either is not playing anymore or are marginal players. Come on!!!! We had to wait all this time for this. It took 40 million dollars to uncover this. I can’t believe it. I mean Mitchell had zero power to make these guys talk to him. Jason Giambi ( his brother also made the list) only talked because Bud Selig told him he wouldn’t be punished if he did. One shocker I will say was hearing David Justice. That truly was a shock. But guys like Gary Sheffield, John Rocker, Eric Gagne and Miguel Tejada were not a complete surprise at all. You heard rumors about all of them. Rocker of course was a head case, Sheffield used to train with Barry Bonds, Gagne hasn’t been the same since all this has come to light and Tejada has been a bust in Baltimore. We already knew about Rick Ankiel, Paul Byrd, Jose Canseco, Troy Glaus, and Jose Guillen through the regular season ( even though Guillen just signed a 36 million dollar contract with the Royals). I never once with the exception of Justice sat in my seat watching the press conference say that was a shock. Even Andy Pettit’s name coming up wasn’t a shock he was outed by Jason Grimsley, another name on the list. This to me took entirely too long and was entirely too short of a list. I will say this though a name I thought for sure would be there was Ivan Rodriguez. I personally had questions about him myself. Lenny Dykstra made the list but when was the last time any of us seen “nails” play. Two names that didn’t appear tells me this is a incomplete list Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Mr. ” we need to talk about the future and not the past” and Mr. ” baseball ahs been bery bery good to me”. Please. This was a complete waste of time. Then to hear that no GM’s, Owners, nor Team Presidents were talked is a complete an utter farce. I mean come on!!! You are going to tell me that not one Owner or GM knew what was going on? I beg to differ. Jose Canseco came up with a better list than his. This list of names is such a travesty I will not print all of the names. The fact that this was a 400 plus page report to me is crazy. Bud Selig and baseball have done it again. This sport which at one time was truly great continues to dissapoint.