New York and Washington, DC - the 2 centers of US media - yet no one has bothered to get the scoop on LoDoca.

He actually came clean the other day, and not in a Giambi-like "I'm sorry for something, but I can't say what" sorta way.

So it's not that nobody bothered to get the scoop - it's just that nobody bothered to notice here on BTF. Sort of a "tree falls in the forest" argument, really.

Will, eventually you're going to have to just come out and say it. Either it's the best hidden secret in the universe, and you know the answer (42), or it's really not a big deal--or at least not big enough to appear in a newspaper

(from the link in Chris Needham's post):

"It was a tough reaction. It's something you have in the back of your mind because you know you did it and you are waiting to see if your name is in it," said Lo Duca, who other than issuing an apology had not previously talked in depth about the Report. "And you know something? It's almost a relief. I'm sort of glad my name was in it -- just to get it off my chest. It's something that I did and I'm not proud of it. I wish I wouldn't have done it and I did."

Asked if staying in the Dodgers' Minor Leagues system for eight-plus years was the reason he started using performance-enhancing drugs, Lo Duca said, "I had a bad injury in the Minor Leagues. I got run over at home plate. That was part of it, but that's not an excuse. I did it to get healthy, and then I saw the results and I did it again.

"You see guys that might have done it or you suspected [of using it]. I was in the Minor Leagues for a long time and I thought this might get me over the hump. It's just a mistake that I made [and] I wish I could take back."

Pretty straightforward. Not bad.

what was odd, was the fans cheering him, don't you think?
Obviously this conversation hadn't been published yet, so the fans had heard nothing from the [admitted] drug pusher, and yet they cheered him. There was a smidgen of boo's, but mostly cheers.

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imagine that. :)

AP: Excited Nationals get late-night glimpse at new ballpark

Eager to see their new home, the Washington Nationals took a bus from the airport to the ballpark immediately after arriving from spring training in Florida.

“This is absolutely incredible,” first baseman Dmitri Young said. “This is everything you want out of a new stadium. I’m in awe.”

Several players were taken aback by the size of the oval-shaped clubhouse. Catcher Paul Lo Duca called it “the biggest thing I’ve ever seen.”

“It’s absolutely gorgeous,” he said. “This room here is bigger than a lot of these guys’ houses. You can’t get any better than this.”

Many players took some time to break in the new chairs in front of their lockers and watch one of the eight new flat-screen televisions.

Well, at least there will still be one druggie involved in the first pitch.

I don't think the PEDs are the interesting scoop when it comes to LoDuca. The under-age girls are.

Well, at least there will still be one druggie involved in the first pitch.

Lay off Manny. You'd be popping Excedrine Migraine like pez too if you had to work under Jim Bowden.

Under-age girls are always more interesting than PEDs.

New York and Washington, DC - the 2 centers of US media - yet no one has bothered to get the scoop on LoDoca.

Did Lo Duca kill someone? Otherwise I can't think of anything that would make me think less of him. Unless he were Steve Garvey's son.

There was a pretty huge effort to try to dig up dirt on Blowduca while he was in New York. Gambling, girls, etc. Nothing substantive really surfaced.