I believe in miracles, because Sabean still has a job after all these years.

So according to the stats feed, the post with the list of players actually mentioned in the report got 19,000 fewer views than the post with the "possible" list.

I have a visual image of Conte with his head in his hand, sighing subsequent to every scene depicted in this excerpt.

@Jen P: The "possible" list has been up for more than twice as long.

@Jen P: To be fair, the first post had about four more hours to compile. I bet the actual list catches up.

Coward!

/Milloy

Because the government knows about EVERYONE who sells illegal drugs.

So you're saying that Brian Sabean is clueless as a GM?

Barry Zito disagrees.

Jamie Foxx was all up in this, I can feel it.

@Jen P: Well, that list was pretty juicy. I guess people want to dream. Or maybe because ESPN didn't have the insider information that was in that post.
BTW Wasn't Stats Feed going to enable commenting "very soon"?

Sabean before his next player acquisition: "If he was taking drugs illegally, Mitchell would have known about it."

Why would a personal trainer not be qualified to be in the weight room?

@Will Leitch: I wonder ... I think sometimes people are more interested in the "maybes" than in the facts - the "maybes" are usually more interesting, after all.

"Athletic trainer privilege"?

Seriously?

John Kruk's man-perm is shatteringly tremendous.

A page or two later, there's a part where the Giants owner asked Sabean a direct question about whether the club had a problem with steroids, and Sabean told him "no" flat out, even after all of Conte's warnings. Sabean naturally denied all of this to Mitchell.

Yeah sure, the government knows about EVERYBODY who does drugs... and yet, the Brett Favre bong man remains free. You stay strong, Wisconsin!

If only the Hogan's Heroes cast were still alive to make a TV movie about the Giants clubhouse!

@Carlton_Whitfield: Was that used in the same sense as "attorney-client privilege"?
Holy crap.

@She Blinded Me With Violence: The man-perm purchased 2,000 dollars worth of HGH

@Will Leitch: Holy Fk! Three comments in one day! Someone pop the champaign in honour of his hard work at commenting!

@JoeyT: Hence the signing of Aaron Roward.

Uh-huh, he's clean. Totally.

@Jen P: There are a lot of people who don't like facts, mostly because they don't understand them and are a bit afraid. These days, the only ones who like facts are in Massachusetts.

@Jen P: I guess so, but... that can't be an actual, legally recognized privilege, can it?

@Coming Into The Game, The Superstar Receiver, Of Your Upper...: "someone pop the champaign..."

Was that an intentional Illinois pun? If so, nice work.

nice to see Bob Lea actually getting more facetime than Berman

@Coming Into The Game, The Superstar Receiver, Of Your Upper...: He's in the running for Comments of the Fortnight now.

Well this document sure isn't very funny.

@Carlton_Whitfield: I have to presume that the "privilege" constitutes not having to carry the towels and getting a free t-shirt if the team wins the pennant.

@Herbies_Wingman: God, could you imagine if Berman was the M.C. of this coverage?

[Cut to Berman in the studio]
"And now I'm being told that Bud 'Why the Fuck is Heidi Klum Married to" Selig is now stepping up to the podium. Let's go back, back, back, back (repeat 'back' ad nauseum) to the press conference."

I KNOW NOTHING!!!!!
/Col. Klink

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We have to remember that this list is not exhaustive; it is a start.

So what will be the price of the sequel (didn't the first one cost $60 mil

This still doesn't explain the Pierzynski for Joe Nathan, Boof Bonser and Francisco Liriano deal... We need answers Brian!!!

so rather than signing players in their 20s, sabean would rather sign old players who juice up to play like their in their mid-to-late 30s.

awesometastic.

An entire day of legal documents on Deadspin must be our punishment for bitching about the SSW. Coming next week: Instruction Manuals!

An entire day of legal documents on Deadspin must be our punishment for bitching about the SSW. Coming next week: Instruction Manuals!

I think you underestimate the size of the LLP. Personally, I'm loving this.

@44 in a Row: I'm not even a law geek, but I'm hoping for a full day of Jonathan Lee Riches lawsuits one of these days.

"Conte refused to identify the player to us, citing athletic trainer privilege."

WHAT? For reals? That's gold.

As Justice Blackmun said in U.S. v. Zolin, "we have recognized the attorney-client privilege as the oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law...except for the athletic trainer privilege, of course."

@Max Mercy: NEVER speak of that again or I will hunt you til my dying days, if necessary.

And Dusty Baker's name is henceforth forbidden as well.

@Carlton_Whitfield: Thanks. I don't need any performance enhancing drugs to boost my commenting abilities. (Alcohol isn't a drug, right?)

@bigboneded: Is "clogging up the bases" banned as well?

@Fiver: That's also the first in a chain of cases that led to the cessation of Rejected Commenter Theater, once it was pointed out that it was a violation of Prospective Commenter-Combudsman Privilege.

@Peter Cavan: fuck. I'll see you guys in 10-20

@Peter Cavan: Obviously, you havn't met my dad...

"Athletic Trainer privilege?"

WTF is next, "Sprinkler Maintenance Guy privilege?"

@Max Mercy: Worst. Trade. Ever.

Richard Justice of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE writes today that baseball commissioner “Bud Selig seems ready to suspend San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan and general manager Brian Sabean for looking the other way while a certain slugger bulked up and hit a bunch of home runs.”...