Watch David Wright hit his 100th career home run. Also, listen to Ron Darling tell us about El Sid’s baked potato and mustard diet.

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As you hopefully know by now, since it was reported immediately below this post, Sid Fernandez, of the 86 Mets, has surfaced in the what will one day be known as the Great Steroids Scandal of 2007. The details are unimportant. Because lets face it, this makes no sense what so ever.

Now lets ignore things like the fact that he’d have taken steroids four years after his failed one game minor league comeback, which was in turn four years after he pitched in the MLB. Granted, nothing can be ruled out. From all accounts, Sid was never the brightest Met.  So hey, maybe he did do steroids. While retired. Because this is the same El Sid that thought if he got a house, he’d have to pay for it, in full. At once (as recorded in Jeff Pearlman’s book). We probably can’t rule out that Sid didn’t realize he was taking steroids. Maybe he thought it was candy. Injectable candy. Alright, that seems highly unlikely, but what seems less likely: Sid Fernandez taking steroids.

Sid’s decision making processes aside, theres the actual steroids. Now, I get it. Steroids don’t give you muscles. They give you the endurance to work out more, longer. There’s no way to put this nicely, so lets just recall one of Sid’s nicknames. The Hefty Lefty. Sid doesn’t look like he has worked out. Ever.  So before we jump to that conclusion that Sid was buying steroids, we need to look at a few other things.

Radomski was a clubhouse kid for the Mets. The team Sid played for. A job involving such exciting tasks as cleaning equipment and fetching things. Sid played for the Mets, liked to eat, and seemed the type that would enjoy the convenience of sending the clubhouse kids for food. He also seems like he could be forgettable enough to not pay for all those cheeseburger. So the obvious conclusion: Sid owed Radomski $3500 for Whopper runs in the 80s. Now doesn’t that make a little more sense?

Sammy Sosa is named among 3 other players in an affidavit that was unsealed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the International Herald Tribune reports.

Sosa, Pete Incaviglia, Geronimo Berroa and Allen Watson - were named in a May 2006 affidavit by Jeffrey Novitzky, a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service criminal division, which details his interview with the former pitcher Jason Grimsley.

The Grimsley affidavit indentifies Sosa as having talked about using amphetamines, Incaviglia as having used amphetamines, Berroa as having used steroids and Watson as having used unidentified performance-enhancing drugs.

It also names Jose Canseco, Lenny Dykstra, Glenallen Hill, Chuck Knoblauch, Rafael Palmeiro, David Segui and Miguel Tejada, all of whom were named in the Mitchell report.

A second affidavit was unsealed that named former Met Sid Fernandez, reports the Washington Post.

According to ESPN.com, Radomski received a $3,500 check from Fernandez that was written in February 2005, eight years after El Sid’s final major league appearance. Phone records cited in the affidavit say Rose Jr. called Radomski several times in 2001, ESPN.com reported. Rose Jr., the son of baseball’s career hits leader, was sentenced in May 2006 to one month in prison and five months of home detention for distributing a steroid alternative to his minor league teammates.