I can hope that this report in some way ruins Barry Bonds but can a soulless entity actually feel shame or remorse? Doubtful.

The thing that I think is unbelievable about this whole thing is, why are they only going after baseball?? The most obvious, rampant abuse of steroids is in professional bodybuilding. Duh!!

Well, I don't think the Mitchell Report really proved anything.

It would have been better if more people truly were invited to participate, but the information was too guarded. I think they should have given anyone who participated amnesty, and then maybe they would have gotten more involvement.

That said, I am glad its out, but I don't think it really accomplishes anything good or bad. Everyone kind of knew what was going on, and I think most people knew it was a bad problem. And, I think baseball already knew it had to do something for the future. So, I don't think it really solved anything. I think it needed to be done, but it is what it is. And, we really, still don't know the full scope of how big the problem really was.

Not that I want to give these stupid athletes a pass, or allow baseball the same. Becausea lot of people knew what was going on.

But at this point I say, clean up the sport for the future, and lets move on to focusing on what happens on the field.

(Brian Hall is the Sports Editor for the Jordan Independent and Shakopee Valley News, and can be reached at bhall@swpub.com.)