Knoblauch served subpoena inside hot dog bun
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 – 3:42 PMBy Michael Rand
From the AP:
Former Yankee Chuck Knoblauch is being subpoenaed by a congressional committee investigating steroids in baseball after he failed to respond to an invitation to give a deposition.
Knoblauch was asked to appear Thursday, the first of five depositions or transcribed interviews scheduled by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee prior to its Feb. 13 hearing.
Roger Clemens is scheduled for Saturday, followed by Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte on Jan. 30. Brian McNamee, a former personal trainer for Clemens and Pettitte, is due in Jan. 31, with former New York Mets clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski to appear Feb. 1.
“The committee has taken this step because Mr. Knoblauch failed to respond to the invitation to participate voluntarily in a deposition or transcribed interview and the Feb. 13 hearing,” committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said in a statement Tuesday.
Suggested hearing questions:
1) The hot dog game. It was funny, right?
2) A ground ball is hit to second base. Assuming throwing it into the stands isn’t an option, where do you throw the ball?
3) You received one vote for the Hall of Fame recently. Discuss.
4) Does a player take a lower dosage of steroids if he just wants to hit doubles?
21 Responses to "Knoblauch served subpoena inside hot dog bun"
5. Literally every female at SCSU in 1991 thought you were the bee’s knees, and you could have pulled a train the likes of which would have left Wilt Chamberlain impressed. That’s not a question, the Committee just thought you should know.
In an unrelated story, Heath Ledger is dead.
At least he didn’t have Tourette’s syndrome
I was at the hot dog game. It was absolute insanity.
6) You were as popular in NY as Garrison Keillor was
Yes, that would be unrelated, sir. Jeez.
Re: the hot dog game, I’m sure Knoblauch would have a few things to say, like, “The hot dogs were pretty funny. The golf ball and the quarters were not.”
Now quit this! This is a championship game!
That Heath Ledger story really bummed me out. He was underrated, extremely versatile for his age. Knew how to be leading man and ensemble character actor, and how to let the Damons and Gyllenhalls own the screen if need be. He made “Lords Of Dogtown” and “Brothers Grimm” watchable. (And I’m a big Gilliam fan, so faint praise for any of his films from me is really a scathing pan).
From what I’ve read he’s amazing in the new Batman flick. And us Gilliam fans (the three of us left) have been buzzing about “Dr. Parnassus” and the pairing of Ledger and Christopher Plummer. Now it’s going to be hard to watch either one.
Having said that, I only want an MLB HOF vote if it’s LaVelle el Tercero’s.
I agree, Ramon. I went to “Brokeback Mountain” with a bunch of wise ass kids (20 year olds..enuf said) and didn’t see a dry eye amongst them as we left…and Stu, if you were talking to me, the two references were indeed related since New Yorkers didn’t like both Knoblauch and also gave Keillor the heavy boot in his ratings though he lied when he came back here to complain about his neighbor’s garage saying he “decided” to return to the MiniApple…right, Garrison, you creep
Heath Ledger is absolutely one of the last actors or actresses that I would have expected to pass away. He never seemed to be in the news for anything stupid. He wasn’t someone who seemed to seek the spotlight. He was a solid actor (though as Ramon and P3 mentioned, not necessarily a lead) and someone who I would have expected to have a very long career.
It looks like suicide, but I hope it was an accident (how often is it an accident though?). It sounds like the characters he played ate him alive, and his inability to sleep forced him to the pills that apparently killed him. What a shame. It’s scary when things get to the point that the altered reality of film actually affects and warps people’s everyday lives.
In response to the actual post question #2, I think Knobby would respond “F— you! That’s where I’d throw the ball!”
No maybe instead he might yell “sh.t no ! Not again !!”
Though Knobby su.ked the bag at the end of his career, he once had a decent (not great arm) and my brother and I went to a Twins game and watched him warm up. My brother, as is his sadistic way, then reminded me of my most memorable if horrid kid baseball moment. It began with a weak ground ball hit directly to Tony, boy-mountain at first base. Tony’s size, gargantuan by boy standards, was only eclipsed by his maniacal single-mindedness to win at all costs, an American Gladiator before his time. Some say he went on to star for the All Attica prison team.
Regardless. The kid had a real gun, best I ever saw in 6th grade and picking up the dribbler he fired it to me at 3rd with so much pop on it it
seemed to arrive the very moment it was released. Routine it seemed. However, as the runner, breaking early from 2nd, crossed in front of me, I took my eye - momentarily - off the ball. Mistake. Spitting out gore all the way home, that single episode convinced me to never again play in the dirt of the infield instead making the wondrous diving catch in the wide open green outfield, so I do give credit to Knoblauch, if only because infield is for maniacs..
Dave - Suicide’s the word the press throws out to sensationalize. An actor (who has worked two films with Gilliam - meaning pretty intense) who dies with medication in their system does not imply a conscious decision to take one’s own life. The Owen Wilson thing seems to have given the intraweb carte blanch to make it’s own assumptions.
As you say, I mentioned what impressed me about him was his ability to work a project for the sake of the project - a real actor. It’s what made him solid and moreso solid beyond his years. Like you said he never was in the news for stupid stuff - unlike Brad Renfro, who had unlimited potential but let his demons parade themselves to the media.
When I was growing up I was taught that Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin and Lenny Bruce all committed suicide. That’s when I looked up the word “didactic”. Not directing this towards Dave - to assume (by the media and local authorities) that Ledger’s death is suicide is irresponsible even in the most didactic context. To make a local analogy, assumptions like that are something the media and “authorities” have learned from Mark Loesch case.
Ramon, agreed. Now the same media throng is summing up the life of the skater, Christopher Bowman’s, as torn by manic-depression and ended by drugs. Strange. Earlier accounts had him as a “depressive”, the ugly twin sister of depression, and if so his meds would have been radically different. But, just assuming he was manic-d, and assuming his main drug was lithium, a huge assumption when other anti-seizure/manic meds might be used as well, he would have went toxic with an overdose, a very painful state, not at all the feeling state anyone would want to experience in a “suicide” attempt..so, in essence, I don’t think he was using his main meds to do so.
It’s far more likely (if he even intended to die) that he would be taking something to sleep, perhaps something mild like lorazepam which is an anti-anxiety but which gives some 4 + hours of sleep. Problem is, people acclimate to it quickly so later on, it gives only 3 then 2 hours of sleep, so..if this or another anti-anxiety or sleep aid was a drug he took, he would take more hoping to get the same bang for the buck..
But, if all this makes sense, it shouldn’t since I don’t know his meds nor his diagnosis, if any, so to theorize after the fact…in the mass media of all places…is incredibly tacky and surely jumping the gun. Yet, I know there will be those who, politely, say we should wait for the results before we publish anything. I am not one of those people. I do not believe we have any right to know the last days of this man. The war in Palestine is news. This isn’t. This is private.
Am I going to hell if the first thing I thought when I heard Heath Ledger died was:
“Gee, I sure hope they finished filming the new Batman”
Here’s the kicker, dano. The cops etal (the powers that be in other words) will pronounce they are doing ab autopsy…Whoopee
What they don’t breach to the public at all is that if they find drugs as the cause of death (and that seems likely) they cannot see a) if he took them in a short period of time to kill himself, since most psychotropics don’t fire up in minutes..but some time release for hours or b) if he took the drugs to sleep/get away from life for awhile then he woke up and took some more then woke up and …
So, all an autopsy can do is give the cause of death not his reason for it.
In short then, many drug deaths are cause by people whacked out on drugs wanting to be more whacked out. But suicide ? Calling it that is mind rape, since only he would know.
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