The Mitchell Report finally revealed today

Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell finally released his long awaited report on the MLB athletes that holds a dark history on steroid use which took around 20 months of investigation.

Even President Bush, who is the former owner of the Texas Rangers spoke about it:

“My hope is that this report is a part of putting the steroid era of baseball behind us,” he said.

The report mentions big names; Seven MVPs, two Cy Young Award winners and 31 All-Stars, including Jose Canseco, Miguel Tejada and Roger Clemens, who was singled out in almost nine pages.

The players most mentioned in the report were Canseco (105 times), Barry Bonds (103 times) and Clemens (82 times).

The most affected team was the New York Yankees with 20 past and present athletes identified.

Just a couple of players cooperated with the report, Jason Giambi who is currently under threat of discipline and Frank Thomas, the rest preferred to leave their lawyers to comment on the issue, like Clemens, whose path to the Hall Of Fame is on hold.

“It is very unfair to include Roger’s name in this report. He is left with no meaningful way to combat what he strongly contends are totally false allegations. He has not been charged with anything, he will not be charged with anything and yet he is being tried in the court of public opinion with no recourse. That is totally wrong.” said Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin.

Some people questioned Mitchell’s report as he is currently a director of the Boston Red Sox and none of his prime players were mentioned in the report.

“Judge me by my work. You will not find any evidence of bias, special treatment, for the Red Sox or anyone else. That had no effect on this investigation or this report, none whatsoever.” Mitchell said.

The report promises to leave a black mark on everyone mentioned, either they are guilty or not, so we just hope this has been beneficial for the game and not just a bunch of pages full of
misleading accusations, only time will tell...

Just in the first three hours the report was uploaded to MLB.com, around 1.8 million downloaded it, You can also get it in PDF format here:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/mitchell/index.jsp