...or he has some common sense. For some reason the A's slugger decided to rip the Mitchell Report for its kid-glove handing of the Red Sox, something we did a day after it was released.
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell released his report in December 2007 and of the 85 players mentioned, none of them were Boston stars. Mitchell has been a director of the Red Sox since 2002.
Last month, The New York Times reported former Boston teammates Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were among 104 players who allegedly tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, according to a list compiled by the federal government.
"To me it was kind of a joke, the whole thing," Cust told The Associated Press last weekend.
"With all the other stuff going on, with a lot of the guys coming out recently — big-name guys — to me it's kind of funny they spent all that money on the Mitchell Report and a bunch of hearsay and the guy who made all the money off it happened to work for the Red Sox.
"Were there any Red Sox on the report? To me, that's kind of a joke. How does that happen? It's coming out now with guys on that team. The guy worked for the Red Sox — they spent all kinds of millions of dollars — and then no one there had their name brought up."
Mitchell was paid a king's ransom for a 409-page report compiled over a 20 month "investigation," if you call typing steroids into Google an investigation.
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