Jays skeptical Mitchell has ‘smoking gun’

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Gregg Zaun sounds as if he thinks the Mitchell Report on the use of performance enhancing substances in baseball will not be worth the paper it’s written on.

...“If you want to investigate what is going on in the game of baseball right now, fine, but what happened years ago, who cares?” said Zaun. “I don’t think this is anything more than an attempt for certain people in the game of baseball to leave their mark on the game somehow.

“Is this Bud Selig’s legacy? I don’t know. I’m pretty sure he probably wanted his legacy in the game to be something more than a tie game at the All-Star Game in Milwaukee.

“Right now, as it stands, it will be a tie game at the All-Star Game and the Mitchell Report. That will be his legacy on the game of baseball.”

...“Unless there’s smoking guns, unless there’s failed drug tests, it just goes down to he-said-she-said accusations, innuendos,” Zaun said. “I don’t know what the report says, but if there’s not hard evidence like a failed drug test or somebody got caught purchasing drugs or anything like that, it seems like they’re opening themselves up to a whole lot of negative press for really no reason at all. It baffles me. It really does.”