Mitchell Report Reveals a Whole Lot of Nothing

By Steve Greenberg
A ruse. A sham. Bogus, with a capital bullcrap. The long-promised bombshell of a Mitchell Report -- which was to out a legion of cheaters for good, many of whom would come as a big surprise -- was little more than a compilation of all the stories that already had been reported in the media, with a few extra details in the ways of shriveled cherries on top.
[img=http://aycu14.webshots.com/image/37613/2001836121337569749_rs.jpg]
George Mitchell is not the most impressive guy on the block today. He is more of a pest. Yeah, Mitch, we get it -- a bunch of guys took steroids and ingested HGH. Baseball had better clean up this mess quickly. Tsk, tsk.
Yeah, yeah.
Here’s where we are: For all the players named in the report, there probably are one or two -- or five -- who still have their reputations intact. And you know what that means? Nonstop reporting to out more players, nonstop rumors on the Internet, nonstop speculation about drugs providing the same annoying, distressing undercurrent to baseball games that has existed the past several years.
The Mitchell Report did nothing whatsoever to end the discussion, not that anyone promised it would. Unfortunately, it didn’t start anything very worthwhile, either.
------------------------
Steve Greenberg is a Sporting News columnist.↵