AP - Former Senator George Mitchell's report on performance enhancing drugs in major league baseball was released on Thursday, throwing the baseball world into a frenzy. The report, which took nearly 20 months to compile, incriminates 76 past and present baseball players. There are also some recognizable names on the report who did not play baseball, among them George Mitchell and Commissioner Bud Selig.
According to the report, Selig purchased nearly $6,000 worth of deca-durablin and human-growth hormone in 2001. The revelation came from former Mets employee and drug dealer Kirk Radomski, who says Bud Selig approached him with questions about 'bulking up' and using 'the good stuff.' Radomski provided Selig with performance enhancing drugs about a month after their initial conversation, and maintained contact with him for two years. Major League Baseball's president and chief operating officer Bob Dupuy spoke with Mitchell's team and was quoted as saying, "yes, I injected him (Selig) in the buttocks."
George Mitchell, according to the report, acquired HGH and an anabolic steroid in late 2006. In a conversation with Jose Canseco, which is transcribed and included in the report, Mitchell told Canseco about his drug use, "I'm just trying to get into your world, man."
Friday, December 14, 2007
Mitchell, Selig Named In Mitchell Report
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I thought the AH! staff would come up with a better article addressing the Mitchell Report. How about something on some of the obscure former Twins whose names showed up on the report?
harsh words for someone posting under the name 'anonymous'
As for your article idea on the former Twins involved, who wants to waste their time discussing the likes of Chuck "dont make me throw to 1st" Knoblauch, Rondell White and Denny Neagle? Well not me anonymous. Not me.
I believe Mr. Selig was under the influence of a HGH overdose when he proposed contracting the Twins, when he approved the sale of the Red Sox, and when he hatched the idea of the World Baseball Classic to be played during MLB spring training.
Had to be some kind drug. Maybe the glue that holds his hair on.
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