Thursday, December 13, 2007

How Typical...

I just took a look at the ?unofficial list? of players that are included on the Mitchell Report (see below).

The only recent Phils to be on the list are Abe Nunez, David Bell and Jeremy Giambi.

How laughable is this? Some of the guys on the list Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols, Roger Clemens, Brady Anderson, etc took the juice and had very, very successful careers. The guys we have that took the juice were absolutely terrible. If Nunez was taking steroids, he should get a refund. I don?t think he ever got the ball out of the infield.

I also thought steroids were supposed to help a guy recover from injury. I guess it didn?t work for David Bell because he could barely bend down to field a ground ball.

The fact that Nunez and David Bell are on this list just reinforces my view of Bonds. Sure, the juice was a big part of the number of homers he hit, but it doesn?t help you actually ?hit? the ball. You still need to have a lot of skill and the juice didn?t help Bell and Nunez in that category.

Here in Philly we can?t even cheat successfully.

The Unofficial List:

Brady Anderson
Manny Alexander
Rick Ankiel
Jeff Bagwell
Barry Bonds
Aaron Boone
Rafael Bettancourt
Bret Boone
Milton Bradley
David Bell
Dante Bichette
Albert Belle
Paul Byrd
Wil Cordero
Ken Caminiti
Mike Cameron
Ramon Castro
Jose and Ozzie Canseco
Roger Clemens
Paxton Crawford
Wilson Delgado
Lenny Dykstra
Johnny Damon
Carl Everett
Kyle Farnsworth
Ryan Franklin
Troy Glaus
Rich Garces
Jason Grimsley
Troy Glaus
Juan Gonzalez
Eric Gagne
Nomar Garciaparra
Jason Giambi
Jeremy Giambi
Jose Guillen
Jay Gibbons
Juan Gonzalez
Clay Hensley
Jerry Hairston
Felix Heredia, Jr.
Darren Holmes
Wally Joyner
Darryl Kile
Matt Lawton
Raul Mondesi
Mark McGwire
Guillermo Mota
Robert Machado
Damian Moss
Abraham Nunez
Trot Nixon
Jose Offerman
Andy Pettitte
Mark Prior
Neifi Perez
Rafael Palmiero
Albert Pujols
Brian Roberts
Juan Rincon
John Rocker
Pudge Rodriguez
Sammy Sosa
Scott Schoenweiis
David Segui
Alex Sanchez
Gary Sheffield
Miguel Tejada
Julian Tavarez
Fernando Tatis
Mo Vaughn
Jason Varitek
Ismael Valdes
Matt Williams
Kerry Wood.

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