The Mitchell Report fallout

The famed Mitchell Report is now out, naming numerous baseball players who are accused of having used performance-enhancing drugs over the last number of years to boost their game.

If all of this is true, who wins?

Barry Bonds.

How could Barry Bonds win out from a report that implicates him as a steroid-user? Because, he was already labeled as a steroid user. His all-time home run record chase brought boos and asterisk signs from around the league.

But if this report is true, it not only takes the attention away from Barry Bonds alone (and his current federal trial over lying about steroids to the feds), but it shows that Barry wasn't alone. It shows a culture of steroid use that permeated baseball over some 20 years.

If the report is true, rather than hound Barry for being a tainted player, the past 20 years will be viewed as the steroid era of baseball, with Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire being just a part of that era.

Oh, and the home run records will continue to be broken. Didn't anyone watch steroid-free Alex Rodriguez this year? He's on pace to shatter Bonds' all-time record. And I hope he does. It will help make the Mitchell Report a blip in the past.