I'm not saying that Mitchell is going to be biased; but only Selig would pick a guy who's impartiality can be called into question to run this investigation.

I'm interested in what kind of hard evidence the report will have.

Friction and fractures erode faith in Mitchell's investigation

Interesting quotes from owners down to trainers about their mistrust and ignorance of the investigators. MLB and Mitchell trying to explain away the obvious conflict of interest. How the investigators wanted trainers and strength coaches to speculate about users. How they leaned on Kirk Radomski to spill the beans because that's all they had. It doesn't paint a pretty picture of a well run and impartial investigation.

Whatever, it will tell us what we already know, point fingers at the unfortunate few who could be traced to the few leads they got, probably leave the Red Sox mostly unscathed (at least that's my expectation). The best thing it could do is give a meaningful path to addressing the issue, if MLB and the player's union actually wish to.

It's just more ammunition for politicians to come back and hammer the union and force them to testify for not being more cooperative and forthcoming in Mitchell's investigation.

Selig names a well-respected former Congressman that resides on the Boston Red Sox Board of Directors simply so that he can claim to Congress, "Look, I did what you told me!  It's all the union's fault we still have PEDs!"

Bottom line--both were outstanding players who probably would have deserved to be in the Hall even if they didn't roid it up. It still will be interesting to see if people demonize Clemens to the extent they did Barry.

This report is supposedly 400 pages long, with tons of exhibits. I think it amounts to more than a "witch hunt". I guess we'll see once it's released.

I say FINALLY. I say this needs to bring the discusison front and center and maybe, just maybe, some of the folks in MLB (paticularly the players' union) will realize that this crap is detrimental to the game and has a negative effect on impressionable young people.

Of course, Bud is just looking to duck the issue as usual:

Yeah, Bud, now that the report's released, your job is done. Never mind any follow-up, or the fact that this all happened on your watch.

It's just a question of arrogant self-entitlement against drunken limp-dicked self-loathing--DaBB

http://files.mlb.com/mitchrpt.pdf

"According to McNamee, the Yankees hired him because Clemens persuaded them to do so."

He is coming off as a smarmy asshole.

In other news, the report is an insufferable douche bag of a report.  Did we really need 150 pages of material before we even get to the players involved?  Do we need to know the history of steroid use for the purposes of the report?