Update 5: Well, if Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman is to be believed, the title of this post may be accurate once again! Apparently the deal has Manny Ramirez (I hold him personally responsible for this whole mess) going to the Dodgers, Jason Bay heading to the Boston Red sox, and the Pirates getting 4 prospects [...]

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Roger Clemens reportedly claims in his 60 minutes interview that he was injected with Lidocaine and vitamin B12, not steroids and HGH. According to ESPN, Clemens tells the interviewer:
“Lidocaine and [vitamin] B-12. It’s for my joints, and B-12 I still take today,”
However, in Clemens’ previous video denial he stated:
“Let me be clear, the answer is [...]

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Roger Clemens has posted this video denial on YouTube promising to defend himself vigorously and to finally answer questions in an interview with Mike Wallace after Christmas.

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Merry Christmas from the RumorMill.

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If you still need a reason to believe that the phrase “in the best interests of baseball” has become meaningless, this report from the AP should offer all the proof you need. It begins:
Bud Selig could be baseball commissioner for life if he wanted. His backing among owners is as strong as ever…
And includes several [...]

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Curt Shilling has an interesting (if overly long) post on his blog about the Mitchell report and the players named. A few excepts:
I’ve always had huge amounts of respect for Andy Pettite, as a competitor and as a person. Someone who’s made his beliefs as a Christian very public and always been the big game [...]

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UPDATE: Here’s the names (alphabetically) from the Mitchell report as provided by ESPN:
ESPN also has a copy of the report available as a PDF file here…

Chad Allen
Rick Ankiel
Mike Bell
David Bell
Gary Bennett, Jr.
Marvin Benard
Larry Bigbie
Barry Bonds
Ricky Bones
Kevin Brown
Paul Byrd
Ken Caminiti
Jose Canseco
Mark Carreon
Jason Christiansen
Howie Clark
Roger Clemens
Paxton Crawford
Jack Cust
Brendan Donnelly
Chris Donnels
Lenny Dykstra
Bobby Estalella
Matt Franco
Ryan Franklin
Eric [...]

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There’s little doubt that this date in baseball will long be remembered for the release of the Mitchell Report but, ironically enough, it was on this date in 1996 that Roger Clemens, who is named in the report as having used steroids, signed as a free agent with the Toronto Blue Jays spurning both the [...]

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CNN briefly had a headline on their front page stating players would no longer receive 24 hours notice of drug tests. If true that implies that players have been receiving such notice in the past. So much for the integrity of tests. As of now, the headline has disappeared and the “developing story” link to [...]

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The most important recommendation to come from the Mitchell Report is that baseball submit itself to an independently developed, run and managed drug testing program, similar to the program now  in place for Olympic sports. For that to happen both the players and the owners will have to give up a lot of power. It’s [...]

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