George Mitchell called a news conference for Thursday to announce the results of his 20-month investigation into drug use in baseball.
Bud Selig does not plan to attend the 2 p.m. ET news conference at a Manhattan hotel a few blocks from the commissioner’s office.
Mitchell said Wednesday he will release his report then, and it will be posted online at MLB.com shortly after that. Selig will hold his own news conference 2½ hours after the one by Mitchell.
Baseball reviewed a draft Tuesday at the Manhattan office of DLA Piper, the law firm that Mitchell chairs, a baseball official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because Mitchell hasn’t authorized any statements.
Baseball officials have said for several weeks that management would be able to examine the report on performance-enhancing drugs a few days before it is made public to make sure it does not contain confidential information that if released would violate the collective bargaining agreement between players and owners.
(NOTE: ALL USEFUL AND SERIOUS INFORMATION ENDS AFTER THIS POINT!)
Other activities planned tomorrow: ESPN begins it’s coverage at 1:00 (perhaps, you could say, with it’s “Pre-Report Show”). At 2:01 a vast amount of posts on BBTF will be complaining about how the report is late. Also, throughout the press conference and subsequent close-reading of the report, there will be a large influx of such postings as “Miguel Tejada, I SO CALLED IT!” and perhaps also posts of “There are no Red Sox, big surprise there”. Sometime between the end of the Mitchell Report conference and the start of the Selig conference, feel free to spend your time watching the talking heads, reading the many lines that will no doubt be filling up the official discussion that will no doubt exist, and, for the cynics (and MST3K fans) out there, build homemade replicas of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, in order for you to better heckle Selig as he tries to spin the report, for better or worse.
It’s gonna be a interesting day. Why, maybe someone can sell shirts that say “I SURVIVED MITCHELL REPORT DAY!”
Gamingboy
Posted: December 12, 2007 at 10:10 PM |
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1. AndrewJ Posted: December 12, 2007 at 11:23 PM (#2642907)I have an exam at 12PM ET. It will probably take me 2 hours, but maybe more. I will probably get home at around 3, and will check BBTF probably at 3:30 or so. By then the primer thread on the Mitchell Report will have existed for around 2 hours, maybe a little more...I'm going to guess we will be at 755 posts by then. Seems fitting.
Anyone else want to make guesses?
WFAN's Mike Francesspool is sitting (ouch) on a leaked name or two.
NO FRICK AWARD FOR CHRIS RUSSO!
KEVIN MCREYNOLDS GETS THE GAS FACE!
WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS ALL THAT IS LEFT IS THE HALL OF MERIT!
Good show, Crispix.
(No matter what the report says, that will be appropriate.)
How about a hot stove story that ISN'T completely preordained?
Do you have an intellectual talking head relative? I briefly saw the last name on some news show today and it was the second time I had ever come across it.
Let's say there are 80 players on the list, and they're all active (and not on the DL). All other things being equal, here's the expected distribution of "listed" players per team:
0: 2 teams
1: 5 teams
2: 8 teams
3: 7 teams
4: 5 teams
5: 2 teams
6: 1 team
If there are fewer players on the list, or if some portion are not active, the number of players per team would decrease. If some teams are more prone to being named (e.g. Mets, since their clubhouse guy was key), it'll likely skew the distribution.
I'm sure tomorrow we're going to get all kinds of theories about teams that didn't have any players named, but even under fairly strict assumptions it's likely there are some teams that had nobody named.
Yeah, but that will not--and should not--take any of the heat off Selig for appointing Mitchell. It is quite possible of course that some Red Sox will be in it, perhaps in part because Mitchell is obviously aware of how it will look if there are no Red Sox players mentioned.
Considering the role of a Mets employee in this, that seems like good news for the Yankees, but who knows?
Or it could mean that only the fringe players bothered to get their PEDs from a mulleted clubhouse attendant and former batboy.
I'd be happy with just one name from both the NY teams as long as it's a certain infallible Teflon shortstop who plays his home games in The Bronx.
FWIW, Francessa guaranteed no Jeter or Rivera, but he did seem genuinely upset about the one "big name" he was given.
When was this? I was listening at about 4 PM and Francessa didn't seem to know much. At that time, he was saying that the names that would really hurt Yankees fans were the current players who were there for the WS runs: Jeter, Rivera, Posada, and Pettitte. So would you infer from that that it's Pettitte or Posada?
Not Phil Rizzuto!
I actually think it's either Piazza or Posada based on everything that was said.
To summarize, Francessa claimed his leak gave him "broad overviews" of the implications for each local team and one "big name".
Later when Russo was going on about how he could use the report against Yankee/Mets fans who had been ragging on Bonds, Francessa said "you'll have slim pickings on one side, there's a hint."
Francessa hates Clemens, plus I think any Clemens implication would also include Pettitte.
Francessa was really upset/flustered by the name and kept saying tomorrow would be a bad day.
Posada?
Oh man, it's gotta be Rizzuto.
Drew Nieporent sounds like an extremely cool name. I wonder how taht guy argues about food online.
Comment before reading the report? Shocking! RTFR!
I'm a Red Sox fan, not an apologist. But I would only believe that Red Sox players' involvement in PEDs could be expunged or otherwise redacted from the evidentiary record by Mitchell if he were the only person working on this, or if he managed to staff his investigative team with nothing but Red Sox defenders. And I suspect neither is true.
Regardless, the mere fact that Boston players might appear on the list probably won't be enough for some people. I have a feeling that folks who aren't fans of Boston already have specific players they want to see on the list, and, should they not appear, will accept no other explanation than that Mitchell hid the result - Occam's Razor be damned. There will be similarly biased people on the other side of the ledger who will refuse to believe any allegations about Boston players. And all this will detract from whatever reasoned discussion could have taken place. Oh well.
Edit; WRT to Sox Roiders, I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hope it's Gagne. Because then his failure as a Red Sox player would be complete: the cheater that sucked
I believe Manny Alexander already holds that title.
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Give it to Canseco, he'll try anything!
Famous last words.
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