This means that there may be those who have been accused but not involved and those who have been involved but whose names were not released. To me this is worse than the scandal itself. Either name EVERYBODY or NOBODY except those – like Jason Giambi – who came forward and admitted their involvement. Throwing out some names and not others gives the appearance of guilt where none may actually exist and the appearance of innocence which may very definitely be undeserved (neither McGuire nor Bonds is ‘outed’ in the report, so I’m reliably informed!). What sort of ‘justice’ is this??

First, our entire society has abandoned moral absolutes in favor of ‘what works’. Nothing is REALLY ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ all the time (maybe MOST of the time, but….), after all, we’re told that what’s ‘right’ and ‘good’ for you might not be the same for me, so ‘live and let live’, don’t force your morality on me, and so forth. This world view excuses cheating, lying and a whole lot of other things in a lot more important world venues than a silly game.

And speaking of ‘silly game’, what’s up with America’s fixation with sports? Like the Roman mob, Americans are kept quiescent in the face of assaults on our Constitutional liberties (AND our Constitution) with a 24-7 diet of stupid games which have become more important to many than their actual lives! Gone are the days of church on Sunday morning (soccer-baseball-lacrosse games for the kiddies) or Sunday family dinner (gather round the TV for baseball or football, depending). For those of us who have no use for ‘sports’, watching America’s fixation with whose playing whom and the ‘point spread’ is both nauseating and frightening.

Let’s face it. Athletes, like film stars and politicians, want to give the ‘fans’ what they want. That’s where ‘success’ lies; that’s where the money is (always follow the money) and that’s where ‘fame’ resides. The fans are the LAST ones to claim ‘foul’ for they would have been the first ones to complain and stay away in droves from games featuring ordinary people. Juice the ball, move the fences in, lower the mound, all to create the offensive excitement that fill the seats. Owners, players and various league officials do what the FANS want! And since honesty is now subjective rather than objective, any cry of ‘wrongdoing’ or ‘foul’ is as dishonest as the player who took the dope and the manager, owner and league officials who looked the other way! It’s a long way from the ‘Black Sox’ scandal to this tempest in a teapot.

I would suggest that the best thing that might come out of all this is for Americans to get their heads out of their collective television sets and TURN OFF THE SPORTS! Get a life! Who cares what idiot took what ‘performance enhancing drug’? He did it because that was the way to success – and success pays off. Indeed, these cheating players are far more honest than most today. They put their own bodies on the line (steroids are dangerous!) to EARN the money that they get for performing an apparently appreciated service while cheating politicians, CEOs, Union bosses and the like are busy taking money from our pockets without either danger to themselves or a return to the public! Who, then, is the REAL cheat!

Frankly, the fact that this nonsense can so enthrall a nation facing huge problems in the REAL world says more about the moral and intellectual failings of the American public than that of a few men involved in a meaningless game.

P.S. If Clemens was not using steroids or hgh why did he refuse to talk to George Mitchell. I would think he would have cooperated with this request instead of letting himself get used by Don Fehr’s machinations.

As has been pointed out, the only Yankee championship team that would have been affected by this would be the 2000 edition, and really, that’s Clemens. The original accusations happened when Clemens was a Blue Jay. Besides, as the Yankees beat a juiced-up Giambi in 2000 and 2001, etc., you can see where your reasoning would lead, unless this is your desperate attempt to win pennants for Cleveland and Philadelphia in retrospect. I don’t see Jeter, Martinez, O’Neill, Bernie Williams, Rivera, etc., mentioned.

I’m no fan of Clemens, and I have never liked Giambi. So this is not a case of blind pinstripe pride. Nor am I going to wax nostalgic about the integrity of a game which was once segregated in those good old days (talk about tainted numbers).