everybody's messed up in it, too. ain't nobody clean.

[fox]

The radio is naming handfuls of names -- Clemens, Bonds, Pettitte, Tejada, Giambi, Giambi, every time. But one of the times, they said Jason Varitek, which, let me tell you, even given that not one single team (even the god-fearing Rockies, evidently) is immune, that is not the Red Sok whose name I would have expected to hear. [eta2: If I'd had to guess -- pick someone off the Red Sox whose name I expected to hear -- I'd have shut my eyes tight and picked Manny Ramírez. Now that the name I do hear is Eric Gagné, I'm not all that surprised.]

[eta: But owing to the number of Jasons per capita in the population from which professional baseball draws (not a lot broadly speaking, but among the white guys, this is the generation for it), and the fact that the reporter tripped over the names "Jason and Jeremy Giambi" a few minutes later, I thought, hang on, this is a PDF-- and I did a ctrl-F search. Found "clemens" (as a test, since I knew it was in there; the searcher is not case-sensitive). Did not find "varitek".

I now fling venom at CBS.]

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[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at the report (PDF available at the Washington Post and elsewhere), and the names I'm seeing are names that don't surprise me. David Justice. Mo Vaughan. This generation being what it is, there are guys named Jason all over the place. Until I see it in print, I will cling to the belief that the reporter misspoke.