Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, left, is joined by Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig during a news conference in New York, Thursday, March 30, 2006. Selig announced that Mitchell will be leading an investigation into the alleged steroid use by Barry Bonds and other MLB players. ‘Nothing is more important to me than the integrity of the game of baseball,’ commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday.

ASSociated Press:Chief of New Steroids Probe Draws Fire

Baseball began its investigation Thursday into alleged steroid use by Barry Bonds and others, and the head of the inquiry immediately came under attack because of his close ties to the sport.

In the wake of a searing book about Bonds, commissioner Bud Selig appointed former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell — and currently a director of the Boston Red Sox — to lead the investigation.

The probe initially will be limited to events since September 2002, when the sport banned performance-enhancing drugs, but Mitchell has the authority to expand it.

George Mitchell is a Leftie hack that has zero credibility in the sports world. So, why choose him?

Because…..he will stonewall/cover-up any investigation.

And where in the hell has been Bud Selig all of these years as a team owner and Commissioner of Major league Baseball?

Selig said Mitchell’s report will be made public but didn’t set a timetable. By then, Bonds may well have passed Babe Ruth’s home-run mark on the way toward Hank Aaron’s all-time record.

“The goal here is to determine facts, not engage in supposition, speculation, rumor or innuendo,” Selig said.

Yeah, right….

Selig has been grossly negligent and even in a way condoned steroid use. MLB will be well served after his contract expires in December 2007. What a disaster.

And Mitchell? He should resign and go back to ruining the Walt Disney Company.

Mitchell, meanwhile, said he will not resign his position with the Red Sox. He also is chairman of The Walt Disney Co., the parent of ESPN, a national broadcast partner of baseball.

“I don’t think there’s any conflict,” he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “I’m going to be independent, have complete independent authority and will act.”

What a JOKE!

Just like Barry Bonds’ homerun records…….

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