Mainefan

It seems to me that there's a mighty thin line between baseball and football when it comes to drugs...and I worry how a serious inquiry into substance abuse in the NFL might affect the game.

Should we welcome an inquiry? Can an inquiry be avoided?

Anyone have any reassuring thoughts on the matter?

Armen Da Pats Fan

I was thinking the same thing.

With a workforce of men that are unhumanly strong, how long will it be before the NFL is pressured to ramp up their steroid testing, etc.?

I now they have random testing now and a handful of players get caught each year, but come on. Look at the guys on the fields. Your eyes tell you there are more than a handful of players on juice. Human beings are just not genetically built that way.

That said, I really don't even care if a guy takes juice. If he understands the risks and makes a choice as an adult, that's his business.

I wouldn't do it, but then again my livelihood is not contingent on how strong and physically dominant I can be, either.

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sdaniels7114

Football quietly cleaned itself up long ago. The weak players association couldn't stand in the way the way MLB's did. Football's near lack of 20 year careers means whatever did happen happened with players long gone.

Keegs

well since things are run completely different between the MLB and NFL, i would say, that for all intensive purposes, the NFL won't be affected much.

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Armen Da Pats Fan

The other thing is, for those of us who are Red Sox fans, is that there have been complaints that the report was biased as there were not a lot of Red Sox players on the list and Mitchell is employed in a fringe capacity with the team.

Perception is a funny thing I guess. People see what they want to see.

I saw some prominent Red Sox on the list - Mo Vaughn, Roger Clemens, Mike Lansing, Brandon Donnelly, Eric Gagne - just to name a few of the bigger names...

No team is immune here and I believe more names will surface as people start selling out, etc. The bottom line is it happened and in it's in the past and the important thing is what MLB does from here on out to keep it under control for the future.

As far as Mitchell, being a former congressman, I find it hard to believe he would hang his integrity out to dry by favoring one team or another. Not that he is super honest or anything, I just think he understands how the political game is played.

What was actually more interesting to me was when you consider the percentage of Latin-born players in the majors, there were proportionately less on the list than you might have expected. I know some of the big names like Tejada, etc., but really when you look at major league rosters and see 10%-20% or more Latin-born players, at first glance, that trend does not play out on the Mitchell report.

Maybe they are teaching to play the game right and honest and straight in places like the Dominican Republic and Venezuela and Puerto Rico, like we used to do in the US, before we became a nation of "Get all you can while you can. The ends justify the means."

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Armen Da Pats Fan

Is LeKevin Smith's nickname really the "Widowmaker"?

Or did you coin that one?

It's an awesome nickname. There is an old 80's metal song by a band called W.A.S.P. called "The Widowmaker". I think it was on the album, "The Last Command".

Would be a cool song to play at the Blade if LeKevin elevates himself into a big-time role on the team. Right after a sack or for a goal-line stand, etc.


http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/W-a...idowmaker.html

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Patjew

"for all intents and purposes"

Sorry, that's a pet peeve of mine. Common mistake.

I know, I'm a dick.

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Armen Da Pats Fan

Grammatically, of course, you are correct, but maybe the poster just had a really intense purpose?!?!

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oldskool138

How will the Mitchell report affect the NFL?

Hmmm, let's see. Major League Baseball and the Nation Football League have...Let's see...Ummm, oh that's right. NOTHING to do with each other!

Other than that they are sports played in America and they try to bump each other off the back pages of newspapers during the months of September and October, they have nothing to do with with each other.

Now, I know nothing happens in a vacuum but the Mitchell Report only has two primary sources of information. A clubhouse attendant and a former bat-boy. Virtually no players talked to him and Senator Mitchell is still on the payroll of the Red Sox. The report is toothless and nothing will be done until the 2011 when the players union and MLB renegotiate the work contract.

It's like the 9-11 Report that came out a few years ago. George Bush has done almost nothing that the Commission recommended. I expect MLB and the Players Union to largely ignore the Mitchell Report.

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I think you have to put an asterisk next to the Yankee championships of the late nineties....That should shut up the New Yorkers..........