From the NY Blade July 9, 2002 Dish Page, more on gay athletes.

"Boys of summer"

In the wake of the clamor over New York Met Mike Piazza's orientation, The Globe claims there are at least a half dozen major-league baseballers who are gay.

"I know of at least six major league ball players who are gay," a "leading commentator on homosexual culture" told the paper. "Fans, as well as their teammates,
would be stunned because these guys are good-looking, macho-type athletes."

Well, no wonder they’re good-looking; they’re gay, after all.

"Two play on the West Coast, and two more play in New York," the source continues. "Believe me, they are not alone. There are gay men hiding all over
baseball."

The paper says that rumors about the sexual orientation of New York's Yankee Derek Jeter and Met Roberto Alomar, and Baltimore Oriole Brady Anderson, have
been circulating for some time.

"There are so many rumors about [Anderson]," Dave Pallone, a former umpire who later came out of the closet, told the paper.

Reminds of one of Joe McCarthy's techniques ... putting a specific number on pure speculation:

"I know there are fifty-seven communists in the U.S. State Department."**

"I know there are SIX gay men playing major league baseball."

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** Actually, that's an attempt to quote the Sen. Iselin character (a McCarthy stand-in) in "The Manchurian Candidate." I can't recall the number McCarty used.

Does the NY Blade even pretend to be a real newspaper? -- The Globe "newspaper" from which they reprinted this article is a National Inquirer / Weekly World News type tabloid that publishes such other crap as the robotic priests (on the same page), 400 lb. babies, the "real killers" of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman ...

If these players players exist, can somebody please invite them to Outsports. Perhaps Jim & Cyd could offer them their own column: Ask the Player.

[quote]Well, no wonder they’re good-looking; they’re gay, after all

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Ah, that's where they lost me! In general, I find straight guys much more attractive to me. And what if it was someone like David Wells? You can bet you'd read this all over the gay press: Ewwwwww, why couldn't it be somebody good looking? Ewwwww!

And DCBucky's right, using The Globe as your source is laughable.

This whole thing is sooooo boring to me. I just wish a player would come out so that the speculation would end--but of course that would only fuel the "Well who else is?" type of speculation. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

"In the wake of the clamor over New York Met Mike Piazza's orientation, The Globe claims there are at least a half dozen major-league baseballers who are gay."

There are 30 teams with 30+ players each. Based on statistics alone, of course there are at least 6 major league players who identify as gay.

My goodness! 6 is outside the very low end of the 1 % range that conservatives say are gay in the general population. You would have to be a nut(no pun intended in any manner) to think there are only 6 gay players in the major leagues.

But it's the national pastime. So if they want to think there's just 6... okay.

[quote]Originally posted by Zaac:
it's the national pastime

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What, playing Guess the Gay Guy? It's right up there, for sure, and that game will never have a work stoppage.

from Zaac:

It's the national pastime

from redsoxbreath:

"What playing Guess the Gay Guy?

That & playing Who's on the Juice? Then you enter the finals: Which Gay Guy's are on the Juice?

~Adam

The natural progression after that would be speculation as to whether the gay guy on the juice
was still producing juice. Pete

And after that - Who was SWALLOWING the produced juice!

E4Ty

[ July 14, 2002: Message edited by: Wurm ]

We know that answer, Wurm: Brendan Lemon.