Stop the presses! Rafael Palmeiro, the non-cheat nonpareil, is
coming out of retirement. For some
reason, the 53-year old Palmeiro wants to play at a level not even Julio
Franco, who retired at age 49, dared.
Palmeiro told
reporters, “I’m doing it because I love the game, first of all. And because I want to get back to proving to
myself that I can do this and maybe for some of those people that [sic] think
that I cheated, they might think again and say, ‘Well, wait a minute. He’s 53, he’s playing at this level, he’s
playhng in the big leagues [actually, the Cleburne Railroaders of the
independent American Association], he’s producing.’ Maybe some of those [people] will say, ‘OK, he
did it legitimately.”
Or they could say that
Palmeiro lied in his testimony to a Congressional committee that, “I have never
used steroids, period” and now he’s lying to himself.
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