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December 13, 2007

The PED-Free Non-Sequiturs

By Mike McClary in Fungoes, Media Rare | 1 comment

About three hours before the Mitchell Report was released today, I updated Twitter with this tongue-in-cheek ditty: Is today the day we find out Nook Logan was on steroids? Little did I know that his name would appear in the report (on page 277).

Two bits of interest for me related to Logan: First, didn’t know his first name was Exavier. Second, he preferred to pay by money order. So old school.

Now that Detroit Tigers fans have had two full seasons of Curtis Granderson in centerfield, can you even remember when Logan was thought to be a budding fixture in the Detroit outfield?

Big Al would disagree, but I’m hoping that Timo Perez comes north with the Tigers next spring. The guy has paid his dues and did everything he was asked as a surprising September call-up. (If you’re a Bob Seger fan, you must check out Al’s blend of Seger and the Detroit Lions.)
In the past, I used to write press releases that I liked to describe as “content-free.” In response to the Mitchell Report the Tigers today issued perhaps the shortest release (of any variety) I’ve ever seen. It’s really not worth your time to read it but here’s the second (and last) paragraph:

The eradication of performance-enhancing substances in baseball and protecting the integrity of the game are the ultimate goals of the industry.

Call me a cynic, but I thought winning baseball games and driving revenue growth, not in that order, were the ultimate goals of the industry.

Christmas came early at The Daily Fungo headquarters. In less than a week we had two mentions in Rob Neyer’s blog on ESPN.com (you can find them here and here). Be sure to check out my interview with Rob on the podcast.
I don’t often read Drew Sharp’s columns mainly because, well, more often than not I wonder what the hell he’s talking about. Take today’s column for example:

It’s now officially the Steroids Era.

It is?

This statement — and the column’s headline, “Mitchell Report officially welcomes in Steroid Era”, which, in fairness, Sharp didn’t write — misses the point.

I believe this report ushers out the Steroid Era. The Steroid Era started in the early 1990s — if not earlier — and ended quite recently.

Perhaps today.

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Ken | Dec 14, 2007 | Reply

Unfortunately, if you lump in HGH I’m guessing we’re still in the Steroid Era in baseball. Until MLB gets serious about keeping their testing technology ahead of the curve and changing the culture within baseball that encourages doping, we have to assume we’re still in the Steroid Era. The Mitchell Report is interesting in that it adds another face to the controversy, but it’s obvious Bud Selig wants nothing to do with this problem or fixing it, and with ecord attendance, why would he?

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