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

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

If that's true, I'm seriously going to cry. NOT THE TEK.

[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.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

And then I thought, hang on, it's a PDF. So 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.

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

BLESS! (I have the PDF too, and just was text-searching too.) *breathes again*

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

I was surprised McGuire wasn't named...I guess he covered his tracks well was clean after all.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

There's a ton of stuff about McGwire in there, but not in The List at the end. It's all on background.

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

Really? My co-worker did a search on Mark, and didn't see him...perhaps he searched forward-only, and had already passed Mr. McGwire. So they didn't tar him as a steroid user?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Not an illegal one. It's a lot of "maintains his innocence" and "accusations about use" and so on, but it admits that the only stuff he is known to have used was not banned at the time he was using it. He doesn't come off as a saint, but he's not one of the ones they're calling out now.

[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]

You know I have to agree to your comment on Gangne. He doesn't surprise me in the least. Esp recently.

[fafou.livejournal.com]

McGwire's last game was Oct 2001.

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