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Fun with Games: The Mitchell Investigation Draft!
With the Mitchell Investigation bomb expected to be dropped in 24 hours, here’s a fun little game that should keep you sufficiently entertained until the news hits: the Mitchell Investigation draft! Our Baseball Friend proposed the idea to us, and here’s how it works: have a draft of players you think will be named in the report. The rules are simple: anyone who has been suspended ...
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Mitchell Report day: My thoughts and predictions
Obscure Sports Quarterly — ... steroids or HGH. How does that really help today’s game? Don’t get me wrong, I definitely want tougher steroid/HGH testing and tougher punishments. I just don’t know what a report on what players did in the past will accomplish. There are already multiple posts on blogs devoted to the release of the Mitchell report and predicting which players will be named as steroid/HGH users. (Check out Baseball Think Factory, Center Field, Deadspin and The Big Lead). My guesses: David Eckstein David Wells ...

Waiting out Steroid D-Day
River Avenue Blues — ... In the meantime, follow The Big Lead’s lead. They’ve called for a Mitchell Report fantasy draft. Name the guys most likely to appear in the report, and if Barry Bonds, anticlimactically, isn’t on the top of all the lists, I’d be pretty surprise. ...

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