My copy was littered with errors, one more egregious than the next. Cocky and juvenile, I took advice from absolutely no one - and it showed. Hired by a metro daily, making a whopping $26,000 per year and owning my own downtown pad (as well as the ultimate babe-magnet - a cherry red Geo Metro convertible), I convinced myself that I was the world's greatest scribe. My personal garbage.īack in the early 1990s, I kicked off my journalistic career as a features writer at The Tennessean in Nashville. "It was your doing," I callously lectured him. My initial response to Santangelo was boo-hoo. "I'm trying to take responsibility for it." "I know I made a horrible mistake," he said.
#FP SANTANGELO WIFE TV#
There were TV cameras positioned outside his home, cruel comments made toward his children, joke after joke at his expense. In the days following the Mitchell report's release, Santangelo says he was subjected to more humiliation and ridicule than at any other point in his life. But the subject matter quickly turned to remorse. I called Santangelo to interview him about the contradictions between his baseball and broadcaster actions. I am feeling - of all things - sympathetic. Yet here I am, in the wake of a 45-minute phone conversation with Santangelo, experiencing an emotion I had not felt in the six years since Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci broke open the hidden steroids-and-baseball vault with "Confessions of an MVP," his Jcover story on Ken Caminiti's injectionary (admittedly a made-up word) ways. Mostly, I wanted to know how Santangelo - a former journeyman now hosting a morning radio show on Sacramento's KHTK-AM - could have me on the air and ask, with apparent integrity, "Do you really think this stuff even helps someone hit a baseball? I mean, how do you know for sure?" I wanted to know where Vina's voice was when the topic of cheating was broached on "Baseball Tonight" where Justice was when - as a game and studio analyst for the Yankees' YES Network - Roger Clemens was discharging 95 mph bullets at age 934. And he wants to make up for it.I wanted to ask how anybody could trust men who violated Article 1 of the Sports Constitution (We the Fans demand honest play.) to deliver fair and balanced coverage.
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