... I didn't know F.P Santangelo was a real-life person. I thought he was made up on the 2002 version of EA Sports baseball. The name even sounds like one of those old-time made-up names from Japanese video games. I think Mattingly was "D. Matts," or something like that:
"Without any sanctions against the juicers or any stark revelations, this was, for the most part, a waste of time. This was done to titillate and get us talking baseball in the winter. This did not and will not clean up baseball."
I pretty much agree with the entire analysis by Shaun Powell. The report was only shocking in its lack of breadth.
Merely two key informants (both linked to New York baseball teams) and very few players mentioned with any degree of certainty.
At the same time, Mitchell is claiming that steroid abuse was widespread and pervasive. Well, maybe so, but this report -- two years in the making -- certainly didn't demonstrate its pervasiveness.
We're back where we started. "Widespread" means 2%, 10%, 20%, or 50%?
I don't think this was done to get us talking about baseball in the winter. I think it was mostly a PR move. Mitchell seems like an earnest enough guy, but he also has to know that the findings will influence the Court of Public Opinion, as opposed to the Court of ... well ... the Courts of Laws and Stuff.
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