Comments on: In Search of the Last Clean Champions

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:55:50 +0000

Thanks for the support, Andrew. Articles like this one are troubling because they distort the content of the Mitchell Report.

Based on credible available evidence, you could also exclude from this list the 1995 Braves, the 1996 Yankees, and the 1997 Marlins. In each of those cases, the available evidence ties the players listed to PED use after the date of their championship.

By: Andrew Reilly

Andrew Reilly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:30:10 +0000

I dislike the Yankees as much as anyone else, but Joe’s got you there, Hamlin Park. At the same time, because of any number of factors, those folks saw it as acceptable to hit the juice. Whether or not they did almost seems irrelevant, and were we to follow cases like Sprague we’d probably be looking back into the 1980s. I personally am spiteful enough to cast Knoblauch’s entire body of work under that umbrella, for example. Good guy, hard worker and all that, but if you juiced, you juiced.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:53:40 +0000

Hamlin Park, if you have evidence that any member of the 1998 Yankees used PEDs in 1998, or at any time earlier, what it is? Here’s your chance. The four players identified above were all concretely referenced in the Mitchell Report to have started using PEDs much later than 1998: (Staton, 2003, with the Mets; Knoblauch, 2001; Pettitte, limited use in 2003; Holmes, who barely played in 1998, in 2003). You have no evidence. Nothing, to impeach the credibility of the 1998 Yankees.

By: Hamlin Park

Hamlin Park — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:45:28 +0000

You’re right Joe. Also, Roger Clemens never took anything and Brian Roberts only took h.g.h. the one time mentioned in the report. Chuck Knoblauch didn’t even start juicing until he got to Kansas City. The Yankees are magic. 1998 was the most best year EVAR!!!11! Obviously. F the ‘98 Yankees.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:52:20 +0000

Any member of the 1998 Yankees linked to use of performance enhancing drugs started long after 1998, as demonstrated in the Mitchell Report. So how can you say that title is not “clean?” It looks like the ‘98 Yankees were the last clean champion.

By: Bubbles

Bubbles — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:57:58 +0000

So the Blue Jays of 92/93 were clean??

WOOT WOOT

By: Nick B.

Nick B. — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:24:58 +0000

JC’s suspension was a technicality. He bought a supplement at GNC, which baseball has told its players is perfectly fine. This was not steroids. http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/shysterball/article/romeros-suspension/

By: Andrew Reilly

Andrew Reilly — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:02:34 +0000

Thanks Matt. I’ve updated the post accordingly.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:58:21 +0000

Phillies had J.C. Romero in 2008… He was suspended 50 games to start the season.