It's official; Alex signs!

Happy days are here again; Alex signed his contract today, ending ulcer-related illnesses all over the Yankee landscape.  Thank God.  In his press conference, he said that Boras lied to him about the Yankees being interested in him and that he would "be needing him no longer".  I don't know how much of that is PR spin and how much of it is truth, but I'll consider it closer to the truth side if Alex fires him.  If it is true, Boras is an idiot.
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Onto the Mitchell Report.  I have a hard time finding a report written by a sitting member of the Red Sox Board of Directors unbiased.  Especially when the only major Red Sox player on the list is Mo Vaughn.  I have my suspicions about a couple current members of the team, but sans a failed drug test, it's just suspicions.  I would have found this report to be more valid if they had used a neutral third party to conduct this investigation, rather than someone SITTING ON THE RED SOX BOARD OF DIRECTORS.  I've seen a photo where he's practically in Larry Lucchino's suit pocket.  I'm sure his intentions were good, but this report was basically Google+Jose Canseco's book+the testimony of former team employees.  How on earth will any of that be, to sadly quote Fox News, "fair and balanced".......not that Fox News is any of those things, but that's a separate post.  Now, I know that Roger and Andy are on the list and to avoid any call of favoritism here, I had my mom read the stuff on Roger and Andy.  She's a huge Cubs fan and probably hates the Yankees more than Red Sox fans do, so you know she's not going to be nice for my sake.  Her exact words were "is this all they have?  Did they fail any drug tests?"  So, someone who hates the Yankees and therefore has no vested interest in any of their players, finds it a load of bunk.  My dad, the born-in-Boston-will-be-buried-in-his-Fisk-jersey Red Sox fan, thinks it's a load of **** BECAUSE there are no current Red Sox players on the list.  So that's two non-Yankees fans who don't buy it.  You don't need to know how I feel, it should be obvious.  With Barry Bonds, we have a failed test.  When he was indicted, the grand jury said they had failed tests and that was one reason they indicted him for perjury.  Until I see some failed drug tests, this report is 5-day old fish; I'm not buying it.  This is the last I'm going to speak on the subject, it's too boring to warrant any further discussion.  I know high-school dropouts who could write a better report than this, it makes the Warren Commission look enthralling.