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SPORTSbyBROOKS.com posted a story by Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle about how Bud Selig is ready to suspend San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan and general manager Brian Sabean for looking the other way while Barry Bonds juiced up to the size of a small country.

Selig’s motivation would be, as noted by the Georgie Mitchell, Sabean’s repeated unwillingness to remove Barry Bonds’ (alleged) steroid supplier, Greg Anderson, from the Giants’ clubhouse. In the same report, Magowan told George Mitchell “that Barry Bonds admitted using steroids, Mitchell’s report on steroid use in baseball says. Magowan later attempted to withdraw the disclosure.”

So let me get this straight, Selig is going to punish two people for turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to a player who took steroids? Hey Bud, you’ve chosen to look the other way while your entire league has been on roids for over a decade. Now you’re going to punish other people for the same crime you’ve committed? Please.

In other news, Giants fans everywhere are rejoicing over the thought of Sabean possibly being suspended. At least for the length of his suspension, they don’t have to worry about him signing yet another centerfielder, trading young pitching stars for A.J. Pierzynski, or signing another past-their-prime player to a ridiculous contract.

Baseball fan Matthew Mitchell is suing the New York Yankees over some players’ reported use of performance-enhancing drugs, seeking repayment of $221 he bought in tickets for five games.

“I’ve been a fan forever, and now, there’s evidence — based on the Mitchell Report and common sense — it’s clear to me that what I was seeing was not a baseball game,” said Mitchell.

Mitchell attended his first game in 1984, and estimates he has been to 50 or 60 Yankees games since. He chose to sue over tickets purchased only in the time frame noted in the Mitchell Report — 2002 to 2007.

Mitchell attended his first game in 1984, and estimates he has been to 50 or 60 Yankees games since. He chose to sue over tickets purchased only in the time frame noted in the Mitchell Report — 2002 to 2007.

While Mitchell attended many more games during that period, he only retained five stubs. He will use these as evidence in court.

Mitchell has pledged not to attend any Yankees games this year.

In June of 1989, there was Tank Man. In January of 2008, there was Matthew Mitchell. Good for you Matthew Mitchell, good for you.

Roger Clemens filed a defamation suit against his former trainer, Brian McNamee, who has claimed to have injected the Rocket with performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens’s defamation suit was filed Sunday in Harris County, Tex., the same day an interview with Clemens aired on the CBS program “60 Minutes” in which Clemens denied ever using steroids or human growth hormone. The suit alleges that McNamee was pressured by federal prosecutors to provide information to Mitchell’s investigators after he initially said Clemens had never used banned substances. The suit lists 15 statements McNamee made to Mitchell that the suit contends are “untrue and defamatory.”

Is anyone else reminded of the Seinfield episode where George keeps lying about renting a place in the Hamptons so that he can get out of visiting Susan’s (his deceased ex-girlfriend) parents? George tells a lie and then has to keep telling lies in order to cover up the previous lie.

Everything points to Clemens lying. Yet, like George when he actually drove Susan’s parents up to the Hamptons even though he had no place there, Clemens is doing whatever he can to try to prove his innocence. If he truly is telling the truth about not taking roids, then he should go to great lengths to prove his innocence. But if he’s just doing whatever he can to cover up his original lie, then he’s going to have a similar fate as one George Costanza. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

The dog of Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon apparently likes to chew on baseballs. That’s not really a big deal…except when one of the balls is the one that sealed the final victory of the 2007 Word Series.

The confusion over the fate of the baseball from the final out of the 2007 World Series is apparently over, courtesy of one of the oldest excuses in the book.

Boston Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon said his dog ate the ball, the Hattiesburg (Md.) American newspaper reported.

“My dog ate it,” Papelbon said, the Hattiesburgh-American reported. “He plays with baseballs like they are his toys. … He jumped up one day on the counter and snatched it. He likes rawhide. He tore that thing to pieces.

“I’ll keep what’s left of it.”

Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek had given Papelbon the ball after the closer got the final out of Game 4 of the World Series against the Colorado Rockies, completing a sweep that gave Boston its second title in three seasons.

About 1,000 Red Sox fans just jumped off the Boston Bridge.

If Roger Clemens is found guilty of taking performance-enhancing drugs, Curt Shilling wants him to give up his four Cy Young awards.

“If he doesn’t do that then there aren’t many options as a fan for me other than to believe his career 192 wins and three Cy Youngs he won prior to 1997 were the end,” Schilling wrote Wednesday in his blog, 38pitches.com. “From that point on the numbers were attained through using [performance-enhancing drugs]. Just like I stated about Jose [Canseco], if that is the case with Roger, the four Cy Youngs should go to the rightful winners, and the numbers should go away if he cannot refute the accusations.”

“Can you separate what Barry is accused of from what Roger is accused of?” Schilling said. “If … both of these men end up being caught, what does that say about this game, us as athletes and the future of the sport and our place in it? The greatest pitcher and greatest hitter of all time are currently both being implicated, one is being prosecuted, for events surrounding and involving the use of performance enhancing drugs. That [stinks]. … The sport needs fixing.”

I don’t disagree with Shilling; I’m just tired of hearing his opinion. It seems like every time there’s an issue in Major League Baseball, there’s Shilling to offer his wisdom. The only thing I want to know from you Curt, is if the bloody sock was fake or not. If you’re guilty, I want the 2004 World Series taken away from the Boston Red Sox.