Former Sen. George Mitchell has called a 2 p.m. ET news conference for today at the Grand Hyatt hotel to release the results of his committee's 20-month investigation into the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.Commissioner Bud Selig will react to the report during a 4:30 p.m. [ET] news conference at the nearby Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and Players Association executive director Donald Fehr has scheduled a news conference for 6 p.m. [ET] MLB.com will carry all three events live. The report itself will be posted at MLB.com shortly after it is released.
What will be in the report?
Several news outlets, including The Associated Press, are stating that up to 80 players will be listed in the report, including MVPs, All-Stars and some "very, very high-level names," although none of those names had surfaced as of late Wednesday night. The AP, quoting two sources, also said that the full report totaled 304 pages, plus exhibits. In recent years, such superstars as Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield, Jose Canseco and the late Ken Caminiti, among others, have all been linked to reports or have admitted their own steroid use.
USA Today had Gallup poll 413 baseball fans about what should happen to any baseball steroid users.
With the report hours from being made public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows a majority of baseball fans believe Commissioner Bud Selig should punish players who are identified in the report as having used steroids.
Six in 10 fans say the commissioner should discipline players linked to performance-enhancing drugs; 43% overall believe Selig should hand out suspensions and 16% say players should be fined. The phone survey conducted Nov. 30-Dec. 2 of 413 baseball fans has margin of error of 5 percentage points.
The pie and bar charts on the front page of the paper is not included in the web version. Not included in either version is an idea of how long the fans want the suspensions to be or how much the fans want the fines to be.
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