Monday, December 06, 2004

Let's keep talking about steroids!

Mike Lupica always write a good article even though he's annoying on Sports Reporters. Jason's crime: No juice in bat:

Sheffield still has value to the Yankees. He is not damaged goods the way Giambi is. If it had been Sheffield talking and talking in front of that grand jury the way Giambi did - or Roger Clemens when he was a Yankee, Clemens being another guy who has at least been asked the question about steroid use - do you really think the Yankees would be lining up a battery of high-priced lawyers like blitzing linebackers to go after him?

Giambi, a world-class dope about dope, is different. He's got knees made of matchsticks. He had that parasite, or whatever he had. He has a tumor on his pituitary gland, or so they say. He gave them a confession. And he hit .203.

"Look," a good baseball source said yesterday, "there are no virgins in this whorehouse. The Yankees can't possibly expect anybody to believe they hadn't heard what everybody else had heard about Giambi and steroids, before they paid him all that money....


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