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    https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...ell.report.ap/

    NEW YORK (AP) -- George Mitchell's report on drugs in baseball will finger MVPs and All-Stars and call for beefed-up testing by an outside agency to clean up the game, The Associated Press learned Wednesday.

    The report will not address amphetamines, which long have been recognized as part of the baseball drug culture, two sources with knowledge of the findings told the AP. But it will include names of 60 to 80 players linked to performance-enhancing substances and plenty more information that exposes "deep problems" in a drug culture that plagues the sport, one of the sources said.

    The two sources were familiar with discussions that led to the final draft but did not want to be identified because it was confidential until its scheduled release on Thursday. They said the full report, which they had not read, totaled 304 pages plus exhibits.

    One person familiar with the final version would only speak anonymously but described it as "a very thorough treatment of the subject" and said some aspects were surprising. He said the report assigns blame to both the commissioner's office and the players' union.

    MLB's "not going to love it, the union's not going to love it," he said.

    The report comes at the end of a year when San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds broke the career home run record, only to be indicted on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about steroid use.

    The first part of the report, the sources said, will identify players and offer information about clubhouse personnel who allowed steroids and other banned substances in clubhouses or knew about it and didn't say anything.

    None of the player names had leaked out Wednesday night.

    The rest of the report, the sources said, will focus on recommendations that include enhanced year-round testing and hiring a drug-testing company that uses the highest standards of independence and transparency. Baseball's program currently is overseen by a joint management-union Health Policy Advisory Committee, with an independent administrator approved by both sides.

    The report also is expected to recommend that baseball develop a credible program to handle cases with evidence of athletes receiving or taking drugs but not testing positive for them.

    Just last week, Kansas City's Jose Guillen and Baltimore's Jay Gibbons were suspended for the first 15 days of next season, and media reports said they had obtained human growth hormone in 2005, after baseball banned it.

    Mitchell, a Boston Red Sox director who is a former Senate majority leader, planned to release his report at 2 p.m. Thursday at a news conference in New York City.

    Baseball commissioner Bud Selig will hold his own news conference 2½ hours later.

    Much of the first part of the report will be based on evidence obtained from former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski, and from information gleaned from the Albany district attorney's investigation into illegal drug distribution that focused on Signature Pharmacy of Orlando, Fla., the sources said.

    Radomski was required to cooperate with the investigation as a condition of his federal plea agreement last April. Radomski pleaded guilty to illegally distributing steroids, HGH, amphetamines and other drugs to players and is awaiting sentencing. Some professional athletes have been linked to the Signature probe, though none has been charged.

    Rob Manfred, baseball's executive vice president of labor relations, reviewed at least part of the report this week to ensure no confidential information from the drug-testing program was disclosed, a person with knowledge of the union's discussion with Mitchell said, also on condition of anonymity.

    Despite repeated requests by the players' association to Mitchell's law firm, the union had not been allowed to review the report, that person said.

    "I certainly hope after 21 months and getting zip by way of cooperation from the players' association that they'll come up with some recommendations for improvement," said World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound. "If not, it's a complete waste of time."

    But he said he's not sure baseball would follow any recommendations.

    "My guess is that the management side probably would, but the players' association will dig in and continue its steel-town union approach to life," he said.

    Agents have said they expect the report to be highly critical of players and the union for largely refusing to cooperate with Mitchell.

    Bob DuPuy, baseball's chief operating officer, sent an e-mail to owners and team presidents in advance of the report with instructions how to respond to media inquiries.

    "We look forward to carefully reading the results of Sen. Mitchell's investigation," the recommended response said. "Protecting the integrity of our game is vital, and we intend to study his findings and recommendations, and will not comment until we have done so."

    Baseball did not have an agreement to ban steroids until September 2002, did not have testing with penalties until 2004 and did not ban HGH until 2005, when it also instituted a suspension for a first positive test.

    Mitchell was hired by Selig in March 2006 after the publication of "Game of Shadows," a book by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters about Bonds' alleged steroid use. The rise in power in the 1990s, which drew national attention when Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa chased Roger Maris' single-season record in the Great Home Run Race of 1998, was accompanied by a rise in suspicion.

    Maris' record of 61 homers had stood since 1961, but McGwire hit 70 that year and Sosa had 66. During the chase, the AP reported McGwire had used androstenedione, a supplement then available over the counter that produced testosterone.

    A bulked-up Bonds then shattered McGwire's record by hitting 73 homers in 2001.

    Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.



    I MEAN SERIOUSLY, THEY ARE RUINING THE SPORT BY DOING ALL OF THIS.. WHO WANTS TO GO TO A GAME AND WATCH TEAMS SCORE FEW POINTS WITH EVERYONE HITTING SINGLES ALL GAME.. NOBODY..
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    I am tired of reading about all of this. I think if they want to put a strict policy in play do it, but leave the past in the past. Get over this shit now and let's move on.
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    i think its retarded. Im with spidey nobodys past should be changed because of this. If youve ever played a serious level of baseball you know that not everybody can hit a major league fastball and curveball. You either can or you cant. Its not a deal of power if you can hit a homerun its finness and your swing. Maybe some wouldnt have gone quite as far but the majority of the homeruns would still be homeruns.
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    I agree...it bugs the shit out of me that they are making such a big deal about this. If they want to catch everyone they are going to have to arrest 80+% of the atheletes out there. Almost every professional athelete has used performance enhancing drugs to get to where they are at. This is just a witch hunt to divert the country's attention to something other than the real problems that we have.
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    I can care less if they're all on drugs, I don't really like baseball that much to have an opinion. the only reason I even paid attention this "scandal" on the news is because Kirk Radomski grew up around the corner from me and we went to school together when we were kids. Last time I saw him he had gone from a skinny little twig to gaining and losing 100lbs. at a time and had become an acne covered, bloated and balding "man." I'm guessing no one told him about PCT or ancillaries or supps.
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    Check out the 2 part CNN interview with Victor Conte. That guy even looks like a fucking rat. Probably crawls up a big tube into Dick Pound's ass every night. Here the link to part one. Don't forget to click on part two after it's over.

    https://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/spo...oids.part1.cnn
     

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    Quote Originally Posted by krat7260
    Check out the 2 part CNN interview with Victor Conte. That guy even looks like a fucking rat. Probably crawls up a big tube into Dick Pound's ass every night. Here the link to part one. Don't forget to click on part two after it's over.

    https://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/spo...oids.part1.cnn
    peice of shit conte just needs more money to keep up with his hollywood lifestyle.

    someone needs to stitch that snitch.

    I love how "it wont address amphetamines". Whys that? Because we've known about them longer than AAS, and they tried to fight the use of them, and failed miserably.
    The same thing will happen here.
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