Matt Karchner talks to Mitchell

[Cubfanintheknow]

Matt Karchner had a couple things to say to George Mitchell while playing with the Cubs:

 

"Matt Karchner pitched for two teams in major league baseball between 1995 and 2000, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. Members of my investigative staff contacted him as part of our effort to interview former major league players.

 

Karchner said that during spring training, 1999, he observed two of his Chicago Cub teammates injecting themselves with steroids in an apartmant that Karchner was sharing with them. Karchner declined to identify the players. He said that one of the players brought steroids to the apartment but was afraid of needles and therefore asked the second player to administer the shot. The second player inject the first player in the buttocks with steroids and then injected himself.

 

Later that season, Karchner was offered steroids by certain of his Cubs teammates. Karchner would not disclose the names of the players who offered him steroids, but the conversations he had involved the general costs of steroids and the discussion of "stacking" to build lean muscles necessary for pitchers. Karchner did not report either of these incidents to anyone at the time."

Mitchell Report, p. 280.

 

Several ex-Cubs have been mentioned, including Glenallen Hill, Todd Hundley and Manny Alexander. But this section will probably garner a lot of attention because Karchner didn't name anyone.

 

Anyone care to speculate?

[Ding Dong Johnson]

you should check out that 18 page thread about the Mitchell report

[Cubfanintheknow]

you should check out that 18 page thread about the Mitchell report

 

I think this deserves a separate thread because this involves the Cubs and not the report in general.

 

Mods may merge if they like.

[Roast]

 

Anyone care to speculate?

 

We already discussed this in the other thread. We assumed that the players in the apartment were probably people like Glenallen Hill because it's unlikely that he would have been sharing an apartment with sosa or wood. We pretty much just assumed the players Karchner was talking about were those that were (gasp) named on the list. Just because Karcher didn't release names doesn't mean that other people didn't.