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Does Yankees’ Steroid Use Indirectly Taint Torre?
nytimes.com - 12/23/2007
Does Yankees’ Steroid Use Indirectly Taint Torre?
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Joe Torre was not mentioned in the Mitchell report. There was no reason he should have been. But the report raises a question about Torre indirectly, as it does directly about Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds and their chances for election to the Hall of Fame.

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Can't Stop The Bleeding:  Chass : Were Torre’s Achievements Artificially Enchanced?

XM MLB Chat:  The Mitchell Report does not state what NY Times implies--sorry

Bugs & Cranks:  Rounding The Bases: 12/26, Back To Drugs & Hate

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Chass : Were Torre’s Achievements Artificially Enchanced?
Can't Stop The Bleeding — ... ), the New York Times’ Murray Chass reminds us that while Joe Torre escaped mention in The Mitchell Report, “the report raises a question about Torre indirectly, as it does directly about Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds and their chances for election to the Hall of Fame.” ...

The Mitchell Report does not state what NY Times implies--sorry
XM MLB Chat — ... NY Times, Murray Chass: "Now, however, it develops that the Yankees’ 2000 team was loaded with players who used performance-enhancing drugs before, during or after that season." ...

Rounding The Bases: 12/26, Back To Drugs & Hate
Bugs & Cranks — 26*. (Or Curt Schilling wants you to respekanize the New York Mets, winners of the 2000 World Series.) [ NY Times ] Your Weekly PEDs Don’t E P Story:“There is no convincing way to demonstrate that Bonds’s performance owed more to drugs than Ruth’s did to his prodigious use of alcohol and tobacco,” say Columbia sociology professor & U of Chicago stats professor. [ ...

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