[greymule]

Take that "proof" into a court and see if you can get a conviction.

Unfortunately, whether a U.S. court would convict somebody is hardly a test of the truth. Guilty people walk out of court every day, acquitted and laughing. In San Francisco, 75% of murder trials end in acquittals, and the prosecutors pursue only the most obvious cases. Does anyone—even the juries—really think 75% of those defendants are innocent? Even so, not everyone in jail is guilty.

In the case of baseball's steroids/HGH problem, the truth is what matters, not whether someone would be convicted in court. Mitchell's report is not a prosecutorial brief. And anyone with half a brain can see that baseball has a serious problem.

Eight, 10, 12 years from now, maybe sooner, we're going to start seeing some early deaths among these players (probably accompanied by assurances from their lawyers and physicians and MLB that the cause of death was anything but steroids/HGH).