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.]

Comments

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

I'm not a baseball fan so I'm not sure, but when did McGwire end his career? This is all supposed to be focused on steroid use post-2002 when the new rules were put into effect, and I seem to recall McGwire being pre-2002. But then again, I never found McGwire all that attractive, hence, this gay boy did not keep tabs on his career ;-)

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

I don't follow baseball, but McGwire, Bonds, and Giambi were the steroid poster boys, which is why I thought he might have been outed, so to speak.

[fafou.livejournal.com]

McGwire's last game was Oct 2001.

So just before they started testing. Interesting isn't it?