Friday, December 14, 2007

Interesting day today...I overslept and woke up 25 minutes late for my EARTH final, which was no biggie since I finished with time to spare anyway. On the way to class I noticed the ice storm did some work on campus, giving all the trees and glass a nice cool protective coating. After that I spent most of the day in front of the TV watching this George Mitchell report unfold. It was interesting in that for the most part everyone found out at the same time about the names that were in it. On my way to ECON I was told class was cancelled so I headed to the library where I finally downloaded the report. I skimmed through it myself for a couple of hours, reading the accounts about players that I'm familiar with. Jason Giambi's was interesting in that he was one of the few that was an isolated incident at the beginning of his time on steroids until he of course met Greg Anderson putting him in the BALCO picture. I think that may be the only reason why he can talk about it because there were no other parties involved and whenever he did them it was at home instead of being connected to Radomski, McNamee, Jason Grimsley or Canseco. There was one part that almost seems comical and I'll provide that excerpt from the report:

"During the 1998 season (around the time of the injections), Clemens showed McNamee a white bottle of Anadrol-50.[386] Clemens told McNamee he was not using it but wanted to know more about it. McNamee told Clemens not to use it. McNamee said he took the bottle and gave it to Canseco.[387]

[387] McNamee stated that he showed the bottle to Canseco because he thought that Canseco was knowledgeable and he felt comfortable approaching him. According to McNamee, Canseco volunteered to take the bottle."

Well I don't where the next step will go, but Michael Wilbon couldn't have said it any better in that it is an embarrassing day for baseball.

-Mikhail

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