NY Times lets you think Grimsley & Stanton were 'named' while Yankees

George Vecsey of the George Mitchell Gazette (aka the NY Times) opens with the usual kind of generalization you see these days about the Yankees. One that's just left hanging there allowing the average busy person to believe one thing when another is true:

• (NY Times): "Through these gates (Legends Field) have passed many of the great Yankees — Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch, Mike Stanton, Jason Grimsley and Jason Giambi, all of whose names were bandied about on C-Span and ESPN on Wednesday."

• Just for the record, the first occasion in which Mike Stanton's name was mentioned (for a purchase which he's denied) was in 2003 WHEN HE WAS ON THE METS.

• Jason Grimsley's checks to Radomski were from 2001-2005 during which time he was not on the Yankees.

Also for the record, where does it say anything in the nature of what Andy Pettitte did had anything to do with his performance? Nowhere, except in media innuendo. And directly, without innuendo, 24 hours a day on WFAN as opinion perceived as fact.

• Quote from NY Times article by George Vecsey, "The Frosty Reality of Spring Training," 2/14/08

P.S. It's most pathetic that the Yankees don't even make a few phone calls to politely stop the media from constant lies and/or innuendo about their past or present personnel. Which will continue ad infinitum. It's one reason I won't buy a ticket to see the Yankees. They are oblivious to what's really going on.

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