Operation Raw Deal and the Mitchell Commission

[Y`s Guy]

Nothing like a good steroid thread to dampen an upbeat baseball website. This probably is why SEARCHing for "Operation Raw Deal" within the site yields zero hits of significance.

Right after Halloween it will be impossible to ignore, kids. The hammer of Thor is about to come down hard and some big names will be squashed. Buster Olner was on ESPN a little while ago saying the Commission has The List and will be getting it to baseball between October 31 and the new year. This makes sense, I guess, since it is only fair for teams to know the juicers before signing free agents, right?

Baseball Blues

[StlSluggers]

"No one except Senator Mitchell's people know for sure whether there's going to be names named..."

In other words, give us what we want, and no one will be named.

This is a power play by the commission. There's no other reason to have that CC right now except that they aren't getting anywhere blackmailing baseball behind closed doors. This whole thing has gone to hell in a hand basket.

[Y`s Guy]

"No one except Senator Mitchell's people know for sure whether there's going to be names named..."

I think that is Manfred's way of saying "I can't comment."