Sports Frog

In what is likely to be the second post of many more on this subject, I just want to highlight one portion of the Mitchell report that stood out to me as I sped read through its 311 pages the first 15 minutes it was available.

On page 209 (and 257 according to my pdf reader):

"According to the notes of an internal discussion among Los Angeles Dodgers officials in October 2003 that were referred to above, it was reportedly said of Lo Duca during the meetings:

Steroids aren't being used anymore on him. Big part of this. Might have some value to trade . . . Florida might have interest. . . . Got off the steroids . . . Took away a lot of hard line drives. . . . Can get comparable value back would consider trading. . . . If you do trade him, will get back on the stuff and try to show you he can have a good year. That's his makeup. Comes to play. Last year of contract, playing for 05.

"On June 26, 2004, Lo Duca wrote a check to Radomski for $3,200. On July 30, 2004, the Dodgers traded Lo Duca, Guillermo Mota, and Juan Encarnacion to the Marlins.420 On August 7, 2004, Lo Duca issued another check to Radomski for $3,200. In January 2005, Lo Duca signed a three-year contract with the Marlins.

For me, this basically implicates the entire league.

From players to teams to clubhouse workers to the 'reporters' who have covered the game. It's hard to even imagine how out in the open this all must have been and still no real story was ever made of it. This is not a Game of Shadows. This implies the 'secrets' were more out in the open than we were lead to believe. Someone slap a 'stop snitching' tag on the MLB logo. How can an entire system run without more speaking out publicly?