... and F.P. Santangelo, if you want to include Spring Training Yankees.
Lupica is an outstanding after-the-fact investigative journalist:
"Does anybody in his or her right mind actually still believe Roger Clemens when he says that an assistant trainer on the Yankees — Brian McNamee — was allowed to give him B12 shots in the clubhouse?"
Most people believe Clemens knowingly took steroids in order to enhance his abilities on the baseball field. More accurately, to enhance his ability to work out, which indirectly helped his abilities on the baseball field.
Most people believe Clemens then lied about it in order to protect his reputation.
"Hey, sometimes when you look at how many ex-Yankees were in George Mitchell’s report about performance-enhancing drugs in baseball, doesn’t it make you think of the scene in 'Casablanca' where Renault says he’s shocked to find out gambling has been going on in Bogey’s establishment?"
Hey, you're a supposed baseball insider and supposed journalist who didn't say one word.
More importantly, Lupica's observation is very misleading. Kirk Radomski was the main source for the Mitchell Report. Radomski worked for the Mets in New York. Because of this, the players he listed were skewed towards New York.
"If you’re keeping score at home, here were the old Yankees in that Mitchell Report, which comes across now like a different sort of Old-Timers’ Day:
Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Mike Stanton, Chuck Knoblauch, Jason Grimsley, Jason Giambi, David Justice, Glenallen Hill, Ron Villone, Kevin Brown and, of course, Jose Canseco."
You missed quite a few players associated with the Yankees, but it brings up an important point. If a player is mentioned in the Mitchell Report, that player is not necessarily guilty.
Welcome to America with the presumption of innocence and trial by jury and whatnot.
The more players you list, the more players who are conspicuously not being pursued by federal prosecutors.
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