That very few members of the Boston Red Sox were named in yesterday’s Mitchell Report on the use of steroids and performance-enhancing substances in Major League Baseball* is probably obvious — Mitchell is on the Board of the Front Office of the Boston Red Sox. What was surprising about yesterday’s report, though, is that relatively few and relatively insignificant members of the St. Louis Cardinals were on the list.
Now we might know why — Dick Gephardt’s law firm wrote the report.
Also, there is a lot of credible talk that the Mitchell Report, even as accusatory as it was, and even as it by itself will ruin MLB’s* credibility, didn’t tell a fraction of the truth. There’s probably a reason for that — George Mitchell is on the Board of Directors of Disney, which owns ESPN, which has a lot of money invested in MLB* broadcasting rights. Should baseball* become a national joke, they lose a lot of money.
