Mitchell....

Watch my show, 'The A-List' on Animal Planet. New episodes every Friday night at 9. I am in the show a lot in the coming weeks. This is a good thing for me.

Senator George Mitchell is dropping his report. Lots of names are being named. Not sure what this means for baseball. I do know that the amount of scrutiny is pretty amazing. I think the fact that we even have a 'Mitchell Report' is troubling. Congress is involved. This is still baseball. It's a game. Sure, it's a game that generates huge revenue, but it's a game. I don't know that Congress should be involved. Congress should be handling other things...like ending the war for example. Thanks Democrats, way to seize the momentum.

Anyway, one of the guys named a ton is Roger Clemens. Now I don't know how definitive we're taking this info. I don't know what we do now. Everyone is talking about 'how we take this'. I don't know. I tend to believe the info. Everyone has come after Barry Bonds (rightly so) but we now have to apply the same standard. Clemens cheated as much or worse as Bonds. Do we asterisk the strikeout record? Do we asterisk the win totals?

What pisses me off the most is that everyone is late to this party. Everyone around the game knew. I knew. I could have told you when Clemens left Boston as a fat slob that refused to work hard at age 34 in 1996 and then showed up with 5 more mph and the build of a diesel train in Toronto on his way to a Cy Young; Clemens cheated. No idea how no one even questioned the guy. He escaped scrutiny. Over the next 10 years, as he continued to dominate, no one raised an eyebrow. This has always baffled me. Where is the spite turned Bonds' way? Where is the venom? The league starts testing, he sits out until the first round of testing happens and then comes back. No one says a word.

Anyway, the names are staggering. Big ones. No one knows what happens next. One of the flaws in this whole thing is that Mitchell was appointed by MLB. Basically, he presents this report, makes some recommendations, and MLB takes action or it doesn't. It lacks teeth. No MLB players (except Jason Giambi) cooperated on advice of the players union. This whole thing is a big pony show. My guess is that this was done to keep Congress off of MLB. Now what? My guess is that nothing happens. Literally, there won't be any actions. No prosecutions, no discipline recommendations, zero. Basically, the result of this will be that lots of players are embarrassed by the report. If you really want to get into it, I bet that this is all a move by MLB owners (chief Selig) to hurt the players union and ultimately lower salaries.

I don't know where we go from here. I'm pretty frustrated I guess. Such a big 'to do' for no real results. Everyone will deny. We'll move forward I guess.

Kurt Radomski will not be at any MLB player's Christmas parties...