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Houston is gripping right now. "Innocent until proven guilty! Innocent until proven guilty!"
But you didn't extend that courtesy to Bonds, did you?
"That's different! He's a n..... not nice guy!"
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3153129
A former New York Yankees strength trainer says information he provided to the George Mitc investigation regarding supplying Roger Clemens and Andy Pet te with steroids is included in the Mitc report scheduled to be released later today, a source close to the trainer told ESPN The Magazine's Shaun Assael.
Brian McNamee, who worked for the Yankees and as a personal trainer for Clemens and Pet te, also told investigators that on at least one occasion, Clemens was in possession of steroids from another supplier, the source said.
The source said McNamee told investigators he supplied Clemens with steroids while Clemens was with the Yankees, and prior to Clemens joining the team.
Randy Hendricks, Clemens' agent, did not immediately return a message seeking comment, according to The Associated Press.
Also, The Bergen (N.J.) Record, citing a baseball industry official, says "several" prominent Yankees will be named in the Mitc report. The paper said the source spoke to a third party who had seen the final report.
"It's going to be a rough day in the Bronx," the paper quoted the source as saying.
Mitc plans to release his report at 2 p.m. ET Thursday at a news conference in New York City.
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig will hold his own news conference 2½ hours later.
The Major League Baseball Players Association sent an e-mail to agents Thursday morning, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN.com's Amy K. Nelson. In it, it said: "We cannot confirm any of the press stories predicting what the report will say. We have not been given an advance copy of the report and we have not been informed of its contents. We requested from Senator Mitc and the Commissioner's Office a copy of the report in advance, so that we'd have a meaningful opportunity to review it. They denied our request. We will be given the report at 1:00 PM, an hour before its public release, but only based on our pledge not to disclose its contents before 2:00 PM. The report is expected to exceed 400 pages, including appendices.
"Some have asked for our advice about public comment. As always, you are free to do as you wish, but we suggest that, for today at least, you decline general comment on the report and respond only on behalf of a particular player named in the report."
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig told the Chicago Tribune that he hadn't seen the report, but he was proud it is coming out.
"People can say Bud was just trying to cover his butt or take care of his legacy or whatever," Selig said, according to the Tribune. "I say [bleep] it. This needed to be done, and now we've done it. I'm just happy it will be out there and we can move on. I'm proud of it."
Scott Boras, who represents a number of high-profile players including Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez, told The Los Angeles Times he hadn't read the report. He did, however, say he's wary because he believes "the concerns of due process and the standards that apply to it are relatively unknown. Certainly, any results that occur from the report have to be looked at in the light that this is not a collectively bargained effort."
"I'm going to assume that a lot of the basis for this is hearsay information," Boras said, according to The Times. "It's not based on any kind of clinical testing, so it is widely a product of hearsay testimony. Without clinical testing or hard evidence, any report like this has to be reviewed with great scrutiny."
Houston is gripping right now. "Innocent until proven guilty! Innocent until proven guilty!"
But you didn't extend that courtesy to Bonds, did you?
"That's different! He's a n..... not nice guy!"
That at ude describes many in the East Texas area."That's different! He's a n..... not nice guy!"
No joke. Drive through some of the back country and you'd think it was still in the Confederacy from all the damned reb flags flying.
Not as much action in this thread as I would have thought.
"Lidocaine and B12"?
Anyway, now Congress wants a chat. 'Cause they got so much useful information from Palmeiro, Sosa, and McGwire.
I feel that. Just got my new confederate flag last week. Mini one for my car.
Forgive my question, but I still don't get why CONGRESS is involved in steroids in baseball. MLB is its own deal. It's not even like it's the Olympics or something.
I have never understood why they are involved. Who decided they should be allowed? Don't they have something better to do?
It's a crock of . Chance for some Congressmen to generate some high-profile face time.
Ostensibly, the reason for it is because of the anti-trust exemptions given by Congress to Major League Baseball. If they feel the game isn't being ministered properly they can threaten to take the exemptions away.
Sounds like what Bigwig Patriot fan did to make sure NFL Network televised the Patriot/Giants game on NBC and CBS.
Very similar. Althought my understanding is that the anti-trust exemptions for the NFL are much weaker than those for MLB.
For example, individual baseball teams can't move cities unless MLB approves it, and Congress protects this (because otherwise it would violate an rust). Al Davis effectively proved that the NFL does not have similar protection when he unilaterally moved the Raiders back and forth, although the NFL tried to argue it did.
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