The fallout from George Mitchell’s 409-page report (pdf) into baseball’s Steroids Era (Mitchell’s words) is yet to fully drop. We’re still combing the report for the most explosive revelations — no big surprise that Yankee greats Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte juiced — but for now, this Yankee fan wants to bring you his moment of schadenfreude. To wit: the 2007 World Champion Boston Red Sox. According to Mitchell, Sox general manager Theo Epstein acquired flop reliever Eric Gagne nearly a year after learning of serious circumstantial evidence of Gagne’s steroid use.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179181