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[Eli's Gone]

George Mitchell and his conflict of interest...

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/6277

Mitchell himself. George Mitchell, the former Senate Majority leader best known before today for helping negotiate the peace deal in Northern Ireland, has had a massive conflict of interest when it comes to baseball. The man is on the boards of both the Boston Red Sox and also the Walt Disney Company. The Disney Company owns ESPN, baseball's number one broadcast partner. Joe Morgan has spoken out about how in the 1990s, ESPN execs encouraged him not to state his suspicions about steroid use on-air. As Morgan said, "I would be broadcasting a game and there would be players hitting balls in a way that they had no business hitting them."