The Bombshell Hits Today: Proving MLB Is A Joke

If you follow sports and unless you are living in a cave you know that the Mitchell report is coming out today and is going to name names. Just listening to the radio talk this morning already some things are being 'leaked' out. Whether or not they are included in the Mitchell report or not, but one such rumor is that Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were on steroids as well as many more Yankees... in fact, the word is that A LOT of Yankees were on the juice.

Of course, that could be just the tip of the iceberg and really does prove once and for all that MLB is a freakin' joke. With baseball's biggest stars all being named as juicers the likelihood that any actual 'punishment' towards any of them will be unlikely because they are too numerous to punish and what is the spineless Selig going to do? Wipe the books of 60-80 of baseball's stars? Of course not. He will come out and say that because so many cheaters were found and many weren't found that no action can be taken and the stats of all these cheaters will remain intact because it was just cheaters playing other cheaters so everything is relative.

Then we fast-forward 5, 10, 15 years from now when these players will all be up for Hall Of Fame induction... because no punishment was issued, their stats and records able to stand and because of that, have to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame. And then you go to the most notable cheater, Barry Bonds...how can baseball do anything against him? All he allegedly did was perjure himself and obstruct justice (as well as use steroids), so how is he any worse than any of the other cheaters? He isn't at all...

In the end, I have the hunch, that Selig will come out and verbally admonish all the cheaters and say that this was a dark time for the MLB. But the end result will be nothing but the proof that players cheated and nothing else...whoopie-fucking-doo. It means that the cheaters will get away with cheating and I even have the feeling that a campaign of 'acceptance' will begin that will try and get fans and the public to accept the cheaters. In the end, Selig and MLB will try and sweep this under the rug and in 10 years from now the only way anyone will know who cheated or not will be by looking at the unbeatable records the cheaters set during the steroid era.

I also foresee ESPN loving every second of this and I see ESPN taking it's typical approach towards this controversy...at first, today and in the short-term, ESPN and it's "analysts" will all be appalled at the extent of the Mitchell report and call for radical action. Then in a month, maybe two, they will be part of the p.r. campaign to get people to forget about it or to accept it...and of course they will because ESPN has MLB on it's airwaves and needs to save it's product. If this was the NHL, ESPN would call for the league to fold or expelled from the U.S.