Could MLB Get a Pass on the Mitchell Report?

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Could MLB Get a Pass on the Mitchell Report?
Remember, "I'm not here to talk about the past"? Well, it may be that the Mitchell Report gives MLB a pass and looks to make recommendations for the future. Talk of "sham" will certainly ensue, if that is the case. [link]

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The Biz of Baseball: Brown: Could MLB Get a Pass on the Mitchell Report?
Published 11/29/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Biz of Baseball: Brown: Could MLB Get a Pass on the Mitchell Report? Based on reports, the Mitchell investigation will offer up a forward looking set of recommendations, and not address how the PED culture in baseball was allowed to permeate. In other words, baseball may be given a free pass for matters in the past and present, with only the named players as ones being held accountable. If this is indeed the case, then many, this author included, will be ready to paint the entire report as a sham. For a report that is supposedly wholly independent (or, as independent as ...

The Mitchell Report will be an Oedipus-complexing fraud…
Published 11/29/2007 by John Brattain at The Progenitor of Severe Gluteal Discomfort
... While I’m going linking stuff I’d like to point you to Maury Brown’s Biz of Baseball where he tipped me off about what is to come. Expect it before Christmas--probably some time in the next three weeks. Maury’s article is the pragmatically named Could MLB Get a Pass on the Mitchell Report? and he sums it up best here: ...

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