Well, after the Mitchell Report came out  earlier today, I wonder what people are going to say about Roger Clemens now. If people really want to have an asterick beside Barry Bond's home run record, then let us put an asterick beside Clemen's 350+ victories.

It has always amazed me that Bonds has been revield by much of the public while Clemens has been admired. Sure, Bonds is not the most agreeable of people, to put it lightly. But there have been other jerks like that murderous and racist Ty Cobb.

Speaking of Bonds, it seems from ESPN that one of the men whose testimony the great Feds used to accuse Bonds of lying is now having second thoughts, saying that what Bonds told him matches more what Bonds testified to. Meaning that the Fed's accusations that Bonds lied is a bit suspect. But that is another story.

One thing that irked me about the report was its focus on the bad influence to the children. Please. Teenagers have their own mind; I speak from past experience.  Sometimes people play the children card when their arguments are not as strong as they would like it to be.  Teh teenagers who are using asteriods or other performance enhancing drugs are doing so not because thier favorite player is using it. Rather they are doing so to recover from injuries faster and to one day make it to the Big Leagues.

Seriously, if every baseball player would say on national television, "I have had sex with only one woman - my wife. And the first time we had sex was on our wedding night, " do you really think the majority of teenage sex would disappear? At the end of the day, kids using steriods is mainly a parent problem. 

In closing, no matter what Mitchell or Selig says, steriods are going to continue being a problem because they are not focusing on the causes of steroid use - the societal causes such as insecurity, pain, desire for money and a good life, and so on.