While the report named 12 players from my hometown teamof Seattle, none of them were important or even players people would remember. Let’s look at the 116 win season and look at who played 2nd base. You know, career year, forearms the size of Popeye. Yeahhh…no juice there!

Too little, too late. That in a nutshell is what the report will probably be remembered for.

I think it’s sad. I wish we lived in a society where most audience members would stop supporting obviously corrupt (and dangerous) entertainment venues on moral grounds. But I’m not sure I’m prepared to accept a society that uses the government to try and achieve the same ends via subpoenas and jail terms, in its place. At least not without comment.

Randomly: I’m not a big baseball fan. It makes for dull television, and the live atmosphere isn’t any better than football or basketball. It’s mostly a “fun to play but not to watch” game for me.

Can I at least use the Singles Ward line on Shaun Bradley?

Who is more guilty? The juiced player, or the man who profits off the juiced player?

The cheating is really secondary. People use performance enhancing technology, such as glasses or hearing aids, for example, all the time. The problem with doping is that it is dangerous. That’s why it is against the rules.

One also has to blame the league for its hypocrisy. Actions speak louder than words. That applies especially to failure of enforcing rules.

Here’s an interview with George Mitchell outlining his process for attempting to contact the players named, and how the Players Association shot him down. He also discusses briefly how he received some independent verification of Radomski’s claims:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/jon_wertheim/12/14/mitchell.interview/index.html?eref=T1

Mitchell references the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of kids using steroids (I don’t know if that’s accurate or not), and probably a large chunk of them harbor fantasies of being professional athletes, but it’s safe to say that there are probably just a couple of hundred kids fantasizing about owning a sports team. Whose offenses are more egregious: The owners or the players? Certainly the players.

Unfortunately, there’s no way for any of these players to reclaim their innocence, if they are indeed innocent. The entire sport has been tainted, but like Track and Field or Cycling. Denials of “I never tested positive” are hollow — Marion Jones claimed that for years and the finally admitted it, and in fact, you can’t even test for HGH.

We the fans are equally guilty. I hate to bring up the name of St. Lance, but if you own a Livestrong bracelet, are you comfortable that you’re supporting someone who is innocent, despite the overwhelming probability that he’s not?