George Mitchell in Red Sox cap in dugout seeking autographs-at height of investigation-Davidoff, Bryant

• From Howard Bryant, ESPN, 12/11/07

"Once, before a Red Sox-Yankees game

• at Fenway Park this spring (2007), (George) Mitchell sat in the home dugout,

• wearing a Red Sox cap and jacket, obtaining autographs for his son.

• To Mitchell's embarrassment, Ken Davidoff, the baseball writer for Newsday, published the story.

Davidoff's story gained little traction....

• "They expected everyone to believe what they say,

• but they didn't do anything real to change anybody's mind.

It was just his word," one general manager said of Mitchell and his investigators.

• "They think everybody is stupid.

They really do."

• From Howard Bryant's article, ESPN.com, 12/11/07, "Friction and Fractures erode faith in Mitchell's Investigation."

(Most who read baseball blogs would love to work for baseball's hierarchy. So stories like this don't interest them).

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