What a crazy week, huh? Maybe we ought to just call it a party week or something. After all, every element was in place - illicit drugs, controlled substances, big-time money and contracts, controversy, buses, general weirdness and of course, apologies.
Lots and lots of apologies.
In fact, before I get too deep into this I ought to offer a pre-emptive apology for the things I did even though I don't know what they are. So yeah, sorry.
And thanks to Alex Rodriguez for setting that trend. Or was it Jason Giambi? Either way it was a Yankee, a team that has proven that it is not above saying sorry. Actually, with Giambi, Andy Pettitte, Roger Clemens, Gary Sheffield, and now A-Roid, the Yankees just might be the place to go for the *really* good drugs.
But we digress.
"The truth will set you free," Rodriguez told a very demure and gentle Peter Gammons of ESPN in a very soft interview. "I'm just proud I'm here sharing my story."
That's what A-Roid said, anyway. Did he really share his story or did he try to shift the blame like Donovan McNabb is said to have done earlier in the week when he pointed out that he gave the defense a lead late in the fourth quarter of the NFC Championship. In normal times even the most mundane statement from McNabb is big news in these parts. Heck, McNabb could say, "Boo!" on Halloween and it would be immediately uploaded onto web sites across the region in a newfangled "stop the presses!" moment.
Not this time. Not when the President of the United States is asked during a prime-time news conference about A-Roid when he was supposed to be answering questions about the economic stimulus bill. Really, that's how big this is.
Really?