Bummer to be talking about this on the first day of the Cubs Convention, but I think the steroids thing is gonna come roaring back to life soon. You've seen it happen - If a player's name comes up in this mess, they get stained. Or they "have a little Clemens" on them. Or "a little Bonds" or "Palmeiro"...
Choose your poster child, I guess.
With Miguel Tejada, you can read about it in this story from The New York Times.
Here's the short version:
Steroid supply guy Kirk Radomski had a visit with a federal grand jury and deputy U.S. attorney Daniel P. Butler in Washington yesterday.
Radomski is the guy who led investigators to Brian McNamee, who claims to have injected Roger Clemens with steroids, who claims that McNamee is lying.
At the same time Roger began denying, Miguel Tejada was called in front of the same House committee and said he had never used steroids either.
Then the Mitchell Report came out, and a guy named Adam Platt who used to play with Tejada in Oakland claimed that he'd provided Miguel with steroids, and to prove it showed photos of Miguel's cancelled checks from 2003, which is the same year Miguel signed a $72 million dollar contract with the Baltimore Orioles.
Which brings us to the really dicey part of the whole deal.
Yeah, all these guys can get into big trouble for lying to the government, but I think the idea that someone could inflate their value falsely by using performance-enhancing drugs and make oh, $72 million dollars... that's where the really big legal discussion will end up.
Okay, back to regular life.
Cubs Convention tonight.
I'm bringing a video cam, Sutter, and an open mind.
Lets see how the crowd reacts when they introduce Milton Bradley...
