By JP, from Pyle of List With the release of the Mitchell Report this week, after months of feverish anticipation, baseball fans and the media finally have an official list of names connected to performance enhancing drugs. While there is some substantial evidence linking these names to the indiscretions we always suspected them of, the distinct lack of a “smoking gun” detracts from the report’s impact. However, it is the closest thing we have to proof that hundreds of players in MLB have been cheating for roughly ... lire la suite
By JP, from Pyle of List With the release of the Mitchell Report this week, after months of feverish anticipation, baseball fans and the media finally have an official list of names connected to performance enhancing drugs. While there is some substantial evidence linking these names to the indiscretions we always suspected them of, the distinct lack of a “smoking gun” detracts from the report’s impact.
I have received a response to my critique of Did Steroid Use Enhance the Performance of the Mitchell Batters? The Effect of Alleged Performance Enhancing Drug Use on Offensive Performance from 1995 to 2007 by Brian J. Schmotzer, Jeff Switchenko, and Patrick D. Kilgo. What follows is the authors’ response.
Earlier this week, I posted a link to a study published in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that looked at the changes in performance by players discussed in the Mitchell Report. Frank Stephenson took the study to task for not properly interpreting the data. In today’s New York Times, two professors with strong backgrounds in statistics, Jonathan Cole (sociologist, Columbia) and Stephen Stigler (statistician, University of Chicago), report their analysis of players mentioned in the Mitchell Report.
Notorious DEK finds Carl latest ranting about the Mitchell Report. I disagree with Carl about the Yanks not injecting PEDs into their buttocks but I do agree that Senator Mitchell's conflict of interest with Red Sox is considerable and he never should have been the man in charge of the report.
The much anticipated (for a variety of reasons) Mitchell Report was put out yesterday and at least in my opinion, it didn’t live up to the hype. Most of the report centered around Kurt Radomski’s testimony and while he had evidence, you’re talking about a lot of fringe players to go along with a few [.
According to a new study published in Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports (JQAS)—Did Steroid Use Enhance the Performance of the Mitchell Batters? The Effect of Alleged Performance Enhancing Drug Use on Offensive Performance from 1995 to 2007 by Brian J. Schmotzer, Jeff Switchenko, and Patrick D.
My response to Brian J. Schmotzer, Jeff Switchenko, and Patrick D. Kilgo’s reply to my criticism of their study follows. I would like to thank the authors for offering their response; however, I do not think their explanations succeed in validating their study. First let me address a few minor issues about which I will not go into significant depth.
Poor Jamie Lynn Spears. She gets pregnant and has a baby at 17 out of wedlock, and to make it even worse, her fiance, Casey Aldridge has been cheating on her for some time. It's been a few months since rumors began circulating about Casey's affair. But, now, the rumors are over and the slutty whore that slept with Casey is speaking out!
When Robin Wright Penn filed for divorce from Sean Penn, her husband of over a decade, it certainly raised some eyebrows. So what brought on the shocking split? According to Star magazine and MSNBC, Robin caught Sean in bed with two other women during their stay at Squaw Valley resort in Lake Tahoe just days before Christmas.
Oh the drama! Figured we could use a nice clean new open thread for the Mitchell Report findings since the speculation diary is already up in the 60s for comments. This says we'll be getting MVP's and All-Stars, but considering Ken Caminiti was an MVP I wouldn't get all excited or anything.
ATHF’s Carl On The Mitchell Report : Still Making More Sense Than Joe Benigno Posted in Baseball, Free Expression at 11:
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy on the sea-shore, diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Sir Isaac Newton It's been four days since the Mitchell Report was released to the public, and while some new people and details have been made known, I don't believe it accomplished what the commissioner thought it would.
Around 2pm today the Mitchell Report will be released. In it, it is rumored to recommend that there be greater transparency in the drug program, such as naming the drugs that players test positive for. Some players try to dodge responsibility for positive tests by saying they unwittingly took a tainted diet supplement.
Jenkins : The Rocket Was A Psychopath Long Before The Mitchell Report Posted in Baseball at 5: pm by GC The SF Chronicle’s Bruce Jenkins suggests that we “hold your after-the-fact rip jobs on Brian Sabean”. Which isn’t a problem for me — I’ve never been remiss to point out SF’s ballpark (and much of Sabean’s resume) were built on the back of Balco Barry’s biceps (link courtesy Repoz and Baseball Think Factory).
Steve Ruark/AP Brian Roberts Secondbaseman Born: October 9, 1977 Bats: B Throws: R Contract Status: million, free agent after 2009 Year PA HR RBI SB AVG OBP SLG RAR TtlVal Okay, so there didn't seem to be too much interest in Adrian Beltre.
Corus Sports)- Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte et l'entraîneur Brian McNamee voient leur comparution devant le congrès américain au sujet du rapport Mitchell reportée.
Geez Roger Clemens, do you mind if we go a single day without being bombarded by news of yet another one of your past trysts with a Southern blond woman somehow vaguely connected to pop culture? Monday we learned that scowling baseball great Clemens, self-proclaimed paragon of family virtue, cheated on his wife with a continuously intoxicated country music star.
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AP named Losing in Iraq its top story in 2006. Winning? That’s only No. Name That Party usually is reserved to show the propensity by news organizations — particularly the Associated Press — to ignore a politician’s political party in a scandal if he’s a Democrat. Republican?
If you put all the economists in the world end to end, you still couldn’t reach a conclusion. This joke (old yet still good) highlights a basic characteristic of economics. Economists tend not to agree. So when we see two economists independently telling the same story, well, that’s news.