Baseball Steroid Scandal

If this is really the list, it's obviously pretty bad for baseball. Only a few of the names on the list are real disappointments for me personally: Albert Pujols, Eric Gagne, Pudge Rodriguez.

LOTS of Yankees on there.

UPDATE: The original post was based on an inaccurate list of names that was leaked to a news organization and later retracted. So the actual Mitchell report doesn't list nearly so many stars, and apparently Albert Pujols and Pudge Rodriguez aren't on the list after all. Of course it's quite possible that many of the bigger names were cut from the list in order to protect a few reputations or because the evidence was not so strong-- even though they may be users. In a sense, the actual report is not so bad as most of the steroid users are second and third tier players. The biggest names in the report are Barry Bonds, Mo Vaughn and Roger Clemens.

UPDATE 2: I love baseball, but I am not a baseball purist. I think it is good to get this stuff out there, but I don't find it shocking nor do I think it ruins the game. Cheating and sports goes hand in hand-- and bravo to the athletes who can win cleanly.