Mitchell's Report

This Thursday a 409 page report identified 85 names that have used or have connections to steroid use. This report was submitted by George Mitchell to MLB commissioner Bud Selig. Steroid use is widespread by stars and scrubs, the report stated. This puts a question mark on some of the baseball records that have been broken and threatens the true skill of the game.

The records that have been broken will surely stand but several stars could pay the price in Cooperstown. Mark McGwire was kept out of the Hall of Fame this year because of steroid suspicion.

Huge names like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Mark McGwire and Miguel Tejada. The list consist of players who have had a Hall of Fame type career to those that have just tried to make it as an average player. They include both pitchers and position players, and have diverse backgrounds. Clemens was hugely singled out in nine pages of the report. Much of the information on him was leaked out by former New York Yankees conditioning coach Brian McNamee.

Mitchell says everyone involved in baseball over the past two decades is to blame for the steroid era. Commissioners, club officials, the players association and players share the responsibility. There was a failure to recognize the steroid problem as it came to be and construct a plan to deal with it early on. Mitchell recommended that the drug testing program be made independent to every suspected player. A list would be taken of the substances players tested positive for and the time and date the test was taken.

Steroid use is a disgrace to the sport and to those that stay fair to the game. It deprives competition and damages the reputation of players and the game. Steroids have no place in sports. This is terrible for those that look up to these huge stars now Knowing that they've used performance enhancing drugs.

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