Some juicy revelations

L.A. Times Archives

Dec. 15, 2007 12 AM PT

What a revelation! Maybe Sen. Mitchell can also issue a report saying Michael Jackson had cosmetic surgery.

Monte Whaley

Redondo Beach

I’ve often wondered what the conversation was about when a pitcher and catcher met at the mound. With Gagne and Lo Duca, now I know.

Ron Tom

Pasadena

I just finished reading the Mitchell Report, and I am depressed. Not because Major League Baseball took a big hit on the chin. No, baseball will survive. I am depressed because it appears that Vin Scully was just about the only Dodger not juiced for the last decade and a half, and yet we still couldn’t win more than one playoff game.

Jim Patton

Manhattan Beach

If this isn’t proof positive that Major League Baseball is going straight to hell, I don’t know what is:

The Mitchell Report is released on the same day that the Yankees sign Alex Rodriguez to a $275-million-dollar contract.

See you opening day.

Greg Garnet

Canoga Park

After reading the list of major leaguers that have used steroids, I have a few thoughts:

1) Did the Giambis get a family rate?

2) Do you think Lenny Dykstra’s Popeye forearms may have given people a hint?

3) I think Barry Bonds should demand there be an asterisk put next to Nook Logan’s stats.

Richard Katz

Los Angeles

F.P. Santangelo?

Todd Hundley?

Kevin Brown?

Ismael Valdez?

These guys must have got the placebo.

Jeff Friedman

Santa Clarita

One of the dangers of this report is that most everyone will form an opinion based on what other people say about it. I downloaded the entire 409 pages and read it last night. My recommendation to everyone is to do the same. There is more to the report than naming names.

Most of the players used human growth hormone, not steroids.

Many studies say that HGH is not effective for trained athletes.

The report doesn’t take on what may be a more widespread issue: amphetamines.

All of the usage described is illegal and dangerous on many levels. The least thing to worry about is how it affects the record book. The jackrabbit ball put into play in the late ‘90s had more to do with home run records than steroids ever did. My exhibit A for that argument is Luis Gonzalez (57 homers) and Shawn Green (49). They’re not in this report.

Don’t bother arguing with me. Read it for yourself.

Eric Monson

Temecula

I’ve been waiting for some verification for years about how pervasive performance-enhancing drugs are in professional sports. I only wish it could go further to college and high school sports. HGH is only detectable by a blood test, but I have to believe the athletes we adore so much at the college level as well as those high school athletes who play Division I sports (you know the ones with incredibly cut and blown-up bodies) must be abusing similarly to MLB players.

Leon Victor

Pasadena

The Mitchell Report is not unlike Pandora’s Box. “Along with these evils came Hope, [baseball’s] only salvation.”

Bob Ginn

Arcadia

What do the 1919 Black Sox scandal and the current steroids scandal have in common?

Both happened when there was no commissioner of baseball.

Evan Puziss

Mar Vista