Comments about ‘Clemens, Bonds, Tejada named in Mitchell Report’

why are names being released before the official report is released? Will their be any RedSox named in the report by Mitchell who is a Redsox official. It does look like a hugh problem for major league baseball. Say it ain't so Joe (Roger & Andy).

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Athletes in EVERY sport in the world cheat. This isn't new, and it's not ever going to stop. There even evidence of cheating in the "honorable" sport of Sumo wrestling.

Why are names being released before the official report actually comes out? I wonder if any Redsox names will be released, with Mitchell being a Redsox official. It looks like major league baseball has a major problem. Say it ain't so Joe (Roger & Andy).

Wow...America's game? How disgraceful. Its no wonder soccer is taking over. True athletes in the worlds game.

The reason they have Clemens and Pettite's names is because it's not a legal matter, therefore anyone who testified can talk to the media.

I think this will be a huge blow to baseball. They have let it slip by for so long, without any punishment. At least the NFL suspends first time offenders a quarter of the season. That is what baseball needs to do. If a player is found dirty, thr first offense should be a 40 game suspension, or 1 quarter of the season, without pay. This 15 game crap does nothing.

Steroids have crept all the way down to the high school level and continue to stain athletic competition. The bottom line is if your peers are doing it then either you do it or they beat you out and you get cut. You can't compete with a guy or girl on steroids. That is the stark reality that drives this machine. Athletics are BIG business and BIG money so people will do what ever it takes to get a piece of the pie. You can make the decision to be steroid free but when your position in on the line what are you going to do? Are you going to turn away from millions of dollars just to be clean? Either the sports leagues enforce this stickly across the board and have a zero tolerance policy or they just turn their heads as they have been doing for the past 20 years. The owner of the Cardinals sure liked all the big sell outs at Bush stadium when McGuire was belting out 70 home runs. The owners have to change too.

Bloomberg News reports that Wally Joyner is on the list.

Football and Basketball have been more popular here than baseball. Baseball being "America's passtime" is a tired old fashioned term. Soccer is a wonderful sport but it has its black eye regarding corruption of referees (Italy for example). More scoring in international matches would help it to be more popular here in the US.

How about a zero-tolerance policy?

Let's remember that during the steroids era there were still outstanding baseball players, some of the greatest of all time.

I don't know whether the names of Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, or Manny Ramirez will surface, but it would be a shame to let their accomplishments be overshadowed by the cheaters.

Rodriguez may very break all the tainted home run records. Next year Maddux should surpass Clemens' career victory total, having achieved a lower career ERA.

It has been a great pleasure to watch these gifted athletes.

I hope we don't forget how they kept the national pastime clean while others tarnished the game.

More Scoring you say? I disagree...in Basketball for example, teams that only play offense (like the NBA allstars, or the US Olympic team) ruin the flow to the game, and no (or less) defense turns into a "showboat" of a single players abilities.

The same is true in the beautiful game of soccer. All of these cries for "more goals", or "change the offsides rule", would ruin the beauty and flow of the game.

True, Italian referees and coaches have been corrupt and guilty of match-fixing, but so is Bill Belichick of the NFL, or Tim Donaghy of the NBA, and we are talking about athletes of the game, not officials or coaches. Soccer breeds true athletes, and true athleticism, and WILL challenge the big 4 sports in the US.

If Baseball actually had a Non-Partisan Commissioner this problem would have gone away a long time ago! Bud Seileg is as guilty as the dealers who sold it to the players, he is the "Enabler" here! Baseball got cleaned up after the Black Sox in 1919 with a Commissioner who wasn't an Owner, wasn't a Player, and had only the best interest of BASEBALL in mind. Bud wants the Money as he is an owner and if a few guys "Shoot Up" to hit a few more homers and beef up and throw more stike outs, what is it to him? MORE MONEY in his pocket! BASEBALL IS TARNISHED AGAIN and AGAIN by greed and desire. That is why I only pay attention to baseball during the playoffs, otherwise I don't care. I would rather catch a high school game or little league game. The Little League World Series on ESPN and ESPN 2 is the Best and Purest Baseball You will EVER FIND BAR NONE!!! Let these Bums kill themselves young for better stats and more money for the owners. They are all LOSERS!

That would be the ideal Joseph, but in the world we live in, everyone gets chances. Plus, the players union would never allow it. I don't even think they'll allow half of the recommendations. That is the problem. The owners will need to step up and say that they want a clean game, and anyone unwilling to play clean won't play. However, the Red Sox or Yankees will sign the players, making the others owners attempt futile.

Soccer players are more athletic than baseball, football, and basketball players.

wally joyner, wallyworld, byu alum. say it ain't so. better sports through chemistry university

Anyone notice that BYU's Wally Joyner was on the list as using steroids three times and said he never used again?

Who cares anymore? Bonds is the scapegoat for the whole deal, Selig is an idiot for letting it go that far and should be fired as commissioner. The whole deal is a 'he-said-she-said' affair and does not prove anything.
And after all, steroids does not help your hand-eye-coordination. I am not saying to let it go but find ways to prevent it instead of blaming everybody.

Golf is the only real sport where the athletes don't dope, you penalize yourself for hitting it out of bounds etc. I hope Bonds and the rest of these guys are kicked out of baseball forever! Can you say asterisk?**************

How naive to think that soccer players are not taking some form of performance enhancing drugs.

To outsider: "true" athletes? In this day and age, you can't tell me that any sport, even your beloved soccer, is completely clean of performance enhancing drugs. Also, does your "true" athleticism include the fact that many soccer players are great actors. I love that many times you see players "writhing in pain", but as soon as the opposing player gets a yellow or red card, he gets up and acts like nothing happened.

In general, I don't understand why the steroid issue sticks to baseball, but slides off the backs of football where more players have died in relationship to steroid use than any other sport.