Another one bites the dust. Hey, I’m gonna get you too. Another one bites the dust. -Queen
Public Service Announcement: OK, here we go! What are all the nay sayers saying now? When the Mitchell Report first came out on Thursday, we heard words like flimsy. We heard words like circumstantial. We heard words like unreliable. We even heard words like slander and liable. Say the word and you’ll be free. Say the word and be like me. Say the word I’m thinking of. Have you heard the word is love?
I heard, but the word of the day is admit. Say the secret word and win $100. You bet your life. The first big winner was Andy Pettitte. Who’s the big winner here tonight at the casino? Huh? Andy, that’s who. Andy’s the big winner. Andy wins. Andy admitted the Mitchell Report’s allegations are true. He admitted that he did use performance-enhancing drugs.
In actuality, FP Santangelo was the first to admit HGH use after the report’s release. But c’mon. FP Santangelo? Pettitte’s admission is huge. Coming off the heals of a Clemens denial, Andy’s confession gave instant credibility to Mitchell’s work. It also put a darker shadow on Roger’s. Since Pettitte came clean, the dominos have been falling. Oh oh domino. Roll me over Romeo. There you go.
Add Brian Roberts to the list of names from the Mitchell Report to admit to using performance-enhancing drugs. Breaking his silence in Tuesday’s editions of the Baltimore Sun, the Orioles second baseman said he took steroids “once” in 2003. This was supposed to be the flimsiest evidence of all. Hearsay to the Nth degree.
Larry Bigbie told investigators Roberts had told him he used steroids “once or twice” in 2003. Turns out to be true. So how’s this sounding: “McNamee injected Clemens in the buttocks four to six times with testosterone.” Still flimsy? Roberts’s admission came a day after former All-Star second baseman Fernando Vina admitted using human growth hormone four years ago to help heal injuries. If I had to do the same again. I would, my friend, Fernando. So they’re dropping like flies.
On Monday, implicated catcher Gary Bennett admitted HGH use. Implicated by a copy of a $3,200 check that he wrote Radomski. Written the same day he was punched in the face by Phat Albert Pujols. Bennett signed a new contract with the Dodgers shortly after his admission. So the hits just keep on hitting. The flies just keep on dropping. Bonds and Clemens may never come around to telling the truth. And with each day that passes it seems like that’s what it is. The truth. The double truth, Ruth.
Public Acknowledgements: Beatles, Groucho, Swingers, Van Morrison, ABBA and Do the Right Thing
Public Spectacle:
Peace out homies. Six two and Even!
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