What a Leak in Baseball
A day after the Boston Red Sox clinched their 12th American League pennant, in a 11-2 hammering of the Cleveland Indians, conspiracy theories are ablaze, in which suspicions are being raised whether baseball investigator George Mitchell, and director of the Boston Red Sox, may have leaked Cleveland Indian pitcher Paul Byrd's name to the San Francisco Chronicle's, when the paper reported Sunday, the morning of the decisive 7th game of the ALCS, that the Indians pitcher received multiple shipments of Human Growth Hormone (H.G.H.) supplements and syringes between 2002 and 2005 from an anti-aging clinic in Florida, a facility targeted by law enforcement for illegally distributing performance-enhancing drugs.
Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, was quick to deny leaking Byrd’s name to the paper, saying, ``neither I nor any member of my investigative staff had anything whatsoever to do with the publication of the allegations about Mr. Byrd’’
When questioned about the timing of the report, the right-handed pitcher told the Plain Dealer``I don't know if was deliberate or not. I can't make that call. I just know it could have come out sooner, and it didn't."
So now the question becomes who did leak Byrd's name?
Has anyone considered asking Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state, who leaked the name Valerie Plame Wilson to journalist Robert Novak, if his loyalities lie with the Red Sox or Indians?
Just a thought.
Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net
Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, was quick to deny leaking Byrd’s name to the paper, saying, ``neither I nor any member of my investigative staff had anything whatsoever to do with the publication of the allegations about Mr. Byrd’’
When questioned about the timing of the report, the right-handed pitcher told the Plain Dealer``I don't know if was deliberate or not. I can't make that call. I just know it could have come out sooner, and it didn't."
So now the question becomes who did leak Byrd's name?
Has anyone considered asking Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state, who leaked the name Valerie Plame Wilson to journalist Robert Novak, if his loyalities lie with the Red Sox or Indians?
Just a thought.
Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net
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