MAYBE I WAS RIGHT. AND MAYBE HE WAS RIGHT TOO… —– by Steve Nadis
Earlier this year, I spent a lot of ink–way too much according to some readers (right Gatemouth?)– questioning the merits of the trade that brought Antoine to the Celtics. Now that the Celtics have sent Walker to the Heat in exchange for a whole lot of nothing–a bunch of players nobody’s ever heard of, plus a couple of 2d-round draft picks–it looks like my first take on the subject was on the mark. SO MAYBE I WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL…
AND MAYBE HE’S RIGHT TOO, he being Rafael Palmeiro, of course, when he said he did not “intentionally or knowingly” take steroids–a refinement of his earlier, more categorical denial under oath. I, for one, am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe Palmeiro actually believed Jose Canseco when Canseco said he was injecting him with “Kool-Aid.” Ballplayers, as we know, will do anything to get an edge, even if it means eating chicken every day (as recent Hall of Fame inductee Wade Boggs did) or even mainlining a popular summertime refreshment.
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16:20:26
When are you going to leave this Walker fellow alone? What did he ever do to you, anyway?
You spent a lot of ink? I know you get quoted in the Boston Globe on occasion, but I did not know your blog is regularly available in hard copy.
OK, wise guy, I was using a figure of speech. Maybe there was not all that much ink, in point of fact. But there was an awful lot of verbiage. I think we can all agree on that.
I agree with your self-assessment, Snake. To paraphrase a former presidential candidate, you were right about Walker before you were wrong about him.
Thank you Nigel for your dead-on assessment of my self-assessment. I agree with you totally: I was absolutely, 100% right–up to the very moment I was wrong.