Mitchell Recommendations

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 not something anyone expects to see happen without a lot stronger push than they got from Mitchell today.Where might the push come from? While I hesitate to see the government get involved again, it was Senate hearings that got the ball rolling on this report. So maybe Congress can gently remind the players and owners that they both benefit from baseball's anti-trust exemption and force a little integrity into the sport as the price for leaving the exemption place.