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…on the Mitchell report.

Apparently, Cust harbors a grudge. At any rate, the A’s OF/DH is still seething. Quoth the Cust:

“With all the other stuff going on, with a lot of the guys coming out recently—big-name guys—to me it’s kind of funny they spent all that money on the Mitchell Report and a bunch of hearsay and the guy who made all the money off it happened to work for the Red Sox,” Cust told the AP. “Were there any Red Sox on the report? To me, that’s kind of a joke. How does that happen? It’s coming out now with guys on that team. The guy worked for the Red Sox—they spent all kinds of millions of dollars—and then no one there had their name brought up.”

This is well covered ground, but it remains relevant given the recent news involving Red Sox players from the time frame “investigated” by the report. George Mitchell was Red Sox’d up, put nary a Red Sock in his report, and now, with Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz being outed, well, the conflict of interest that pretty much everyone hollered about back in the day as this was going down remains stark. For Cust, who was named in the report, it continues to gall:

“You still hear it every time you go into a stadium. They want to get on you for something and talk about that,” he said. “To me it’s never been something that was ever anything that was true. No test results, no nothing. For your name to be brought up because of something said by someone you played with in the minor leagues, to me was a little weird. It’s something I’ve had to deal with and other guys have had to deal with.”

Too bad Cust wasn’t a Red Sock at the time. That would’ve apparently helped.