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 pitcher as well. He says he did this one time to recover from an injury, I believe him.
So as a fan my thought is that Roger [Clemens] will find a way in short order to organize a legal team to guarantee a retraction of the allegations made, a public apology is made, and his name is completely cleared. If he doesn’t do that then there aren’t many options as a fan for me other than to believe his career 192 wins and 3 Cy Youngs he won prior to 1997 were the end. From that point on the numbers were attained through using PED’s.
At the same time I pray that ANYONE in this report that is innocent, steps up and clears their names, now, today. No one has, and through today no one has done anything but issue a crafted statement in someone else’s words denying their guilt or association in any of this.
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It’s nice to see a player taking a stand but I’d rather see him lobbying his fellow players and the Players’ Union than posting about it on his blog. As long as the Union stands in the way of Olympic style drug testing and fight suspensions of guilty players, the Commissioner’s Office will continue to use them as an excuse for doing nothing.
The truth is that both the commish and the union want to stick their heads in the sand and have this thing blow over while they continue to make record amounts of money at the fan’s expense. I know a lot of people don’t like Congress getting involved but personally I’m glad they are. That’s the only time we see any action out of these two greedy institutions!
Good point. It makes you wonder when NO ONE is willing to come out and support strong testing procedures.