All The Mariners Listed In The Mitchell Report
David Bell
Ryan Franklin
Jose Guillen
Glenallen Hill
Josias Manzanillo
David Segui
Todd Williams
Ismael Valdez
Ron Villone
Fernando Vina
All ex-Mariners (Guillen being the most recent, just signing a deal with the Royals for 2008). And outside of Guillen and Bell, these aren’t good players, mainly marginal players trying to stick to the major league roster and bullpen guys who probably used to improve their recovery time. But that’s a lot of Mariner players — and it doesn’t even include the raft of M’s minor leaguers that have been suspended over the last three years.
You can read the whole report at mlb.com (PDF).
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This is the last straw for me and Major League Baseball. There was a time when I organized my life around baseball games and spent hours reading articles and stats and blogs. It’s not worth it anymore. Besides NBA players, MLB players are my least favorite professional athletes. Their sense of entitlement and air of superiority is off-putting, to say the least. They whine more than any other pro athlete yet they’re paid more than any other pro athlete. And now this.
I can’t justify spending any more time paying attention to them. Plus, I think the league itself is run by a bunch of clowns. I’ll get my baseball fix elsewhere.
Very, very rich clowns.
I wish someone would do the right thing and fire Bud Selig and Don Fehr. I agree with Senator Mitchell that we have to move on, but if we are, it has to be without these two impediments to progress.
Way. Of. The. World.
Anyone who thinks ANY pool of athletes - NFL (still rife with steroids/HGH, no matter what they try to tell you), MLB, Olympics, cycling, NCAA with its athlete perks, even high school sports) is not going to include those who use any means possible to succeed, you need a reality injection.
MLB’s making a big deal out of it, probably in an attempt to add a “scarlet letter” to the downside of using. Good for them.
But given the chance to cheat and get away with it, any random group of human beings will contain a subset who will be happy to take that chance.
I think Bret Boone and Mike Cameron made the list, too.