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12/13/07

Players Named In Mitchell Report - Most Surprising? Not Lenny Dykstra

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CriticalFanatic

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Here's the full Mitchell Investigation Report. It's 409 pages so I clearly haven't read through it all, but below is the list in order of which the names are presented starting on page 149.

This is by no means the definitive list, Sammy Sosa or Mark McGwire isn't on it after all, but a great start for baseball's effort to clean up the game. Also a great day for fans, answering just a few of the many questions we have about what we've witnessed over the last 20 years.

The name I'm most amused by is the one at the top. Lenny Dykstra. What a crazy SOB, which all makes sense. Most surprising? Chuck Knoblauch. It's clear that steroids affect your mental functioning, but we must consider that he didn't take enough juice. It's not all that far a throw from 2nd to 1st ... for those 4 year-old and up. Paul Lo Duca amuses me as well, especially the copy of his note. We'll keep reading but for now which name on the list most surprises?

Lenny Dykstra
David Segui
Larry Bigbie
Brian Roberts
Jack Cust
Tim Laker
Josias Manzanillo
Todd Hundley
Mark Carreon
Hal Morris
Matt Franco
Rondell White
Roger Clemens
Andy Pettitte
Chuck Knoblauch
Jason Grimsley
Gregg Zaun
David Justice
F.P. Santangelo
Glenallen Hill
Mo Vaughn
Denny Neagle
Ron Villone
Ryan Franklin
Chris Donnels
Todd Williams
Phil Hiatt
Todd Pratt
Kevin Young
Mike Lansing
Cody McKay
Kent Mercker
Adam Piatt
Miguel Tejada
Jason Christiansen
Mike Stanton
Stephen Randolph
Jerry Hairston
Paul Lo Duca
Adam Riggs
Bart Miadich
Fernando Vina
Kevin Brown
Eric Gagne
Mike Bell
Matt Herges
Gary Bennett, Jr.
Jim Parque
Brendan Donnelly
Chad Allen
Jeff Williams
Howie Clark
Nook Logan

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569 days ago

Seth

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Now how about someone do this for football. I bet we could get just as many if not more NFL players on a list.

569 days ago

Seth

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Remember kids, steroids are bad, and judging by some of the guys on this list, they don't always help much either.

569 days ago

CriticalFanatic

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Who the F is F.P. Santangelo?

569 days ago

Seth

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Now how about someone do this for football. I bet we could get just as many if not more NFL players on a list.

569 days ago

saylorgator

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The ones that surprised me are all the ones I've never heard of...helped them a whole lot.

569 days ago

suedon70

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I guess Vina will lose his gig on Baseball Tonight now.....

569 days ago

MrNFL

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Seth wrote:

Now how about someone do this for football. I bet we could get just as many if not more NFL players on a list.

Somehow, the NFL is immune to all of the steroid controversies. It's a insane double standard.

569 days ago

CriticalFanatic

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MrNFL wrote:

Somehow, the NFL is immune to all of the steroid controversies. It's a insane double standard.

I'm going to start calling you MrBrokenRecord.

Maybe the NFL should take of itself ... until they do, we have baseball players to condemn.

569 days ago

CriticalFanatic

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Seth wrote:

Now how about someone do this for football. I bet we could get just as many if not more NFL players on a list.

I would agree it's in the 30-40% range.

569 days ago

MrNFL

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CriticalFanatic wrote:

I'm going to start calling you MrBrokenRecord.

Maybe the NFL should take of itself ... until they do, we have baseball players to condemn.

What's your problem anyhow? The truth is the truth.

569 days ago

Jubanator14

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suedon70 wrote:

I guess Vina will lose his gig on Baseball Tonight now.....

I didn't watch much Baseball Tonight but did Vina ever take a stand about Barry and what he thought? If he did and said that he should be asterisked or stricken from the books, it would not look very good now.

569 days ago

Seth

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CriticalFanatic wrote:

I'm going to start calling you MrBrokenRecord.

Maybe the NFL should take of itself ... until they do, we have baseball players to condemn.

Congress butted their noses into baseball to help move things along. They could do the same to the NFL is they wanted to.

569 days ago

Adam

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I kinda hope the NFL doesn't do this or anything like it. Not suspecting that they will, but I think it would destory the game. I think tons of players get by in the NFL without getting caught. I mean you pretty much HAVE to be jacked to play decent D.

569 days ago

kantwistaye

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(Edited 12/13/07 3:57PM by kantwistaye)

Most surprising? There is none. Honestly, maybe the only surprise to anyone of us would be our favorite player(s) because we'd be blind enough to think that they wouldn't use steriods or HGH. Otherwise there wouldn't, or shouldn't, be any surprises.

569 days ago

ChicaQueso

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I think steroids are rampant in all sports... and no one in sports being on them surprises me at all.

569 days ago

ChicaQueso

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kantwistaye wrote:

Haha we were writing at the same time...

569 days ago

Jubanator14

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ChicaQueso wrote:

I think steroids are rampant in all sports... and no one in sports being on them surprises me at all.

I'd be really surprised if it turned out Steve Nash or Tim Duncan did steroids.

569 days ago

fxdirect

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saylorgator wrote:

The ones that surprised me are all the ones I've never heard of...helped them a whole lot.

I have played Fantasy Baseball for years, and I don't remember the names Chris Donnels, Bart Miadich, Adam Riggs, Cody McKay, Jeff Williams, Howie Clark, Darren Holmes or "Nook" Logan ever coming up.

569 days ago

JewelOfSong

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You know, after skimming over the report, I feel like much of this I could have come up with myself just doing google searches. Although, it is nice to have it all in one, comprehensive place. One thing about it that does bother me is the naming of certain players name without much substantial evidence (ie. Brian Roberts).

569 days ago

Anthonyg7575

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CriticalFanatic wrote:

Who the F is F.P. Santangelo?

Played for the Hurricanes in college, drafted by the Expos back in the early 90's. Never really made much of anything.

569 days ago

fxdirect

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(Edited 12/13/07 4:44PM by fxdirect)
JewelOfSong wrote:

There are some players who it looks like someone else named and therefore he included it even if those players would not speak with him. It does look like he put a little extra effort into several players, such as those who had a lot of media attention already paid to them, and to those who had bigger names (like Roger Clemens, who rated about 4 pages.)

My favorite appendix so far is the 30 pages of cancelled checks to the NY Mets locker room attendant.

569 days ago

CriticalFanatic

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fxdirect wrote:

I have played Fantasy Baseball for years, and I don't remember the names Chris Donnels, Bart Miadich, Adam Riggs, Cody McKay, Jeff Williams, Howie Clark, Darren Holmes or "Nook" Logan ever coming up.

Agreed ... Nook is familiar because he's so recent, but I had to look those guys up today. You wonder if it was worth it for them because clearly steroids might have been the difference between the minors and majors.

I'd wager there are more players like this that are hard to track than there are big names. I have a hard time putting myself in there position and claiming I'd say no to steroids when a major league contract was on the line. If it meant 200-400,000 more a year for my family, it's tempting.

569 days ago

CriticalFanatic

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Anthonyg7575 wrote:

Played for the Hurricanes in college, drafted by the Expos back in the early 90's. Never really made much of anything.

I wonder if he is related to former Gonzaga guard J.P. Santangelo

569 days ago

CriticalFanatic

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I'm glad this didn't happen for his sake, but I was wondering all morning what would have happened if John Kruk was on the list and he had no idea.

569 days ago

Jubanator14

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CriticalFanatic wrote:

I'm glad this didn't happen for his sake, but I was wondering all morning what would have happened if John Kruk was on the list and he had no idea.

That would have been great. They announce John Kruk and then ESPN goes to camera 2 right on John's shocked face.

569 days ago

Chief_aka_James

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Lol. Chuck Knoblauch.

569 days ago

drewstapes

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CriticalFanatic wrote:

I wonder if he is related to former Gonzaga guard J.P. Santangelo

F.P. has a radio show in Sacramento. To his credit, he was a guest on another one of the stations shows and seemed to come across as honest and remorseful. He even almost got choked up a couple times. He said he chose to use 'roids two times after surguries because he figured his career was over if he didn't.

568 days ago

The Wakka Man

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It's a sobering reminder that it's not only the All-Stars who took roids in order to reach their tainted pedestals and that it's confined to those players alone, but it also touches the everyday backups and middle relievers--the "small men" of the game.

Steroids don't guarantee superstar status--they guarantee a major-league contract, however small.

568 days ago

Beat_LA415

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CriticalFanatic wrote:

Who the F is F.P. Santangelo?

I really don't know much about his career. I do, however, know that he is one of three hosts of the San Francisco Giants pre-game show.

568 days ago

bigdaveSCB

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As a kid, I loved Lenny Dykstra. I remember watching the '86 World Series and seeing him play all out, all the time. My dad told me that's the kind of player to be, the tough one who plays hard all the time. I even used to stuff a big ol' wad of Big League chew into my cheek to look more like Nails when I played. Now, I don't dare tell one of my boys to be like that player. Who knows if he got there by hard work or HGH.

Thanks for tainting my memories, Nails.

568 days ago

tpowell25

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He's not on the list above, but one of the biggest names that surprised me was Wally Joyner. Why in the world would Wally Joyner be linked to this at all?

568 days ago

bigdaveSCB

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tpowell25 wrote:

He's not on the list above, but one of the biggest names that surprised me was Wally Joyner. Why in the world would Wally Joyner be linked to this at all?

If I remember right, a few years back, Joyner addmitted to getting 'roids from someone...it might have been Caminetti. He tried it for a bit, but felt wrong, didn't like what they were doing to him, and he flushed what he had left.

568 days ago

tpowell25

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bigdaveSCB wrote:

Ah. I forgot all about that. Thanks.

It still surprises me, though.