George Mitchell's interesting love for Paul Byrd

• *PLEASE NOTE: This is not a "conspiracy theory" nor is anything else on this blog. I'm merely posting reports others have made that haven't been receiving wide play in the mass media. I didn't know myself about Mitchell's ongoing position as a director of the Red Sox until I read it in the Boston Globe. It's fun and easy to marginalize information you don't like by labeling it a "conspiracy theory," but unfortunately I didn't make any of this up. This note is in response to a google report I just received showing an aggregator had headlined a recent post of mine as "Conspiracy Theory?" (Susan Mullen)

The MLB update at 12:42Pm today on XM MLB satellite radio channel 175 included news that Paul Byrd had met with MLB Monday, Dec. 17, 2007 to discuss his HGH use. The news reader then said the following:

• "Byrd came out with his VIEWS LONG BEFORE THE (Mitchell) REPORT WAS RELEASED."

This is what you can do when you control mass media:

• Wording Byrd "came out with his VIEWS..." His views? What views? Do you actually mean his admission or confession? "Views" is quite different from admission or confession.

• Here Byrd is characterized as coming forward in some way 'LONG BEFORE' the Mitchell report came out. As we've been told many times, meeting with the Mitchell group BEFORE the report's release put you in a more acceptable if not totally forgiven group (so Mitchell said).

• But Byrd did not respond to the Mitchell group "long before" the report. He was outed by a leak during the World Series with the Red Sox, a report appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle. AFTER that report, and with evidence he stored his syringes and materials in clubhouse refrigerators, Byrd admitted his HGH use in response to media questions. His actually speaking to MLB officials about the Mitchell report did not take place until yesterday (according to the AP report).

"Byrd said baseball officials knew he had been taking the drug, which he said he often stored in clubhouse refrigerators. MLB officials did not confirm they knew Byrd was taking HGH."

• A few days before, Byrd was the winning pitcher against the Yankees in Game 4 of the ALDS. Where are constant and widespread media reports saying the ALDS title must be stripped from the Cleveland Indians? Where are all the media bitterly saying "they don't believe Byrd," that he probably hadn't stopped using and was still juiced? Where is 24 hour condemnation of the entire Indians season, even if there was only one user, as has been done constantly about the Yankees?

AP report published on SportingNews.com, "Tribe's Byrd Meets with MLB Officials About HGH," 12/17/07

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