I'm sorry I guess Damon was not named.

Gagne was DEFINITELY named as was Brendan Donnelly. Gagne's reciepts are in there!

Here is an exceprt about Donnelly:

"In considering whether to trade for Donnelly in 2007, Red Sox baseball
operations personnel internally discussed concerns that Donnelly was using performance
enhancing substances. In an email to vice president of player personnel Ben Charington dated
December 13, 2006, Zack Scott of the Red Sox baseball operations staff wrote of Donnelly: “He
was a juice guy but his velocity hasn’t changed a lot over the years . . . If he was a juice guy, he
could be a breakdown candidate.”427 Kyle Evans of the baseball operations staff agreed with
these concerns, responding in an email that “I haven’t heard many good things about him, w[ith]
significant steroid rumors.”428"

Bud Selig is just patting Mitchell and baseball on the back now.

Talk about a dog and pony show.

This whole thing seriously stinks.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004899.php

Theo Epstein, Eric Gagne and the Boston Red Sox: A Match Made in Muck Heaven
By Spencer Ackerman - December 13, 2007, 2:52PM

The fallout from George Mitchell's 409-page report (pdf) into baseball's Steroids Era (Mitchell's words) is yet to fully drop. We're still combing the report for the most explosive revelations -- no big surprise that Yankee greats Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte juiced -- but for now, this Yankee fan wants to bring you his moment of schadenfreude. To wit: the 2007 World Champion Boston Red Sox. According to Mitchell, Sox general manager Theo Epstein acquired flop reliever Eric Gagne nearly a year after learning of serious circumstantial evidence of Gagne's steroid use.

Gagne and Paul Lo Duca were teammates in Los Angeles from 1999 to 2004. During that time, Gagne used Lo Duca, who went on to a beloved career catching for the Mets (sorry, Paul), as his hook-up to steroid and human-growth hormone pusher Kirk Radomski. The Red Sox scouted Gagne, once a valuable relief pitcher, after the 2006 season, when Epstein began overhauling the Sox pitching staff. Yet a certain concern lingered. On November 1, 2006, Epstein emailed his scout, Mark Delpiano, "Have you done any digging on Gagne? I know the Dodgers think he was a steroid guy. Maybe so. What do you hear on his medical?"

Delpiano replied:

Some digging on Gagne and steroids IS the issue. Has had a checkered medical past throughout career including minor leagues. Lacks the poise and commitment to stay healthy, maintain body and re invent [sic] self. What made him a tenacious closer was the max effort plus stuff.

Yet the Sox picked up Gagne from the Texas Rangers at the trade deadline during the 2007 season. What does that say about Epstein's commitment to a steroid-free championship team?

Sour grapes from a Yankee fan? Yeah, guilty as charged. But if there's a silver lining here, it's that Gagne, a juicer, stunk, and a certain thoroughly-unlikeable-but-steroid/HGH-free slugger is going to redeem baseball's holiest record.

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Any Red Sox players on the list?

This report is ridiculously biases against NY players. Aside from BALCO and other widely publicized cases, the 2 people who provided Mitchell with most of the "evidence" were closely associated with the Mets and the personal trainer of 2 high profile Yankees.

The fact that Mitchell couldn't get any help from people associated with any other teams makes the findings selective at best and disingenuous at worst.

Eric Gagne, Mo Vaughn and a couple others but not many.

As you said there is a reason why it was biased towards the Yanks, Mets- its cause of the sources.

Boston did a good job of shutting their people up.

I'm sure it helped that one of their own was leading the investigation.

I wonder if Mitchell will get a nice little bonus when he starts receiving paychecks again from the Red Sox.

I heard that even Joe Torre made the list!

bud selig is the biggest coward in all of sports. what a weasel. this whole thing is just ridiculous, i wish mitchell had the cojones to spell out that selig is the guy to blame. he was the commish, he HAD TO KNOW when sammy sosa was hitting 600 foot homeruns back to back to back in HR DERBYS ON NATIONAL TV!!!!!! gimme a break, now clemens and pettitte are refuting it and everything, this is just absurd.

No Varitek, No Ortiz, No Ramirez ? None of them used???

Hard to believe.

Mitchell musta got a nice Christmas bonus this year.

so do i... it's all heresay *& the media has already ran with it as published facts... it's not only irresponsible on MLB's part, it's irresponsible journalism as well.

just because players aren't on the list doesn't mean they haven't used... hell, Sammy Sosa's name wasn't on the list either & neither was Rafael Palmeiro or Mark McGwire.