Just an FYI AA, Wikipedia, even though you probably use it often, it is not considered a reliable source for information.

Peeeeeeeee-ter, Peeeeeeeeeeeee-ter

I think that's the point anon, AA knows that.

he loves to us it though

I sent that link to AA, and although we obviously realize Wikipedia is not the gospel, I thought it was just a funny line in the middle of real info. It has since been removed. I think it stems from the ATL-LAD game today when you could hear Peter say something about steroids as they came back early from commercial (which happened often).

Yeah i heard that quip too from the game today, someone should try to get a link to it because it was pretty funny

I heard it and was laughing my ass off. I wish I had a DVR, I'd have YouTubed it.

Hey I heard Andrew Jackson also did performance enhancing drugs as well, at about the same time. Hmmmmm, I find that suspicious.

I was in my room and i heard him talk about it when they came back and died laughing!

Sorry that some of you fail to get sarcasm. I didn't even realize he actually said so on air. I'll try to find the clip.

yeah it was in the third inning, I think. It was after his interview (which was the worst camera angle in the world, having peter stand behind a fence and pad so you could only see his arm and the microphone) with Bobby Cox (I think it was bobby, I was sort of just curling up next to the TV and letting the sounds of baseball wash over me).

I hope the steroids don't shrink Old Hickory.

I was ROTF when I heard it, at his stupidity. Did anybody else notice the pregnant pause before Gary was able to get out his plug? Just add it the the list of other thoughtless or mumblemouth comments that have come out of Gammons' mouth...

If Wikipedia said it, it MUST be true.

S-A-R-C-A-S-M people. Of course it's not true. Good lord....must I hold hands around these parts?

Of course he was being sarcastic. Still, it was a stupid/bad joke that shouldn't have been uttered by somebody with a mike in front of him (I'm sure that he thought it was off).

The story was broken months ago by www.notthenation.com

Legendary Baseball Reporter Took Steroids
Admission raises new questions about Hall of Fame career


NEW YORK - Hall of Fame writer and television commentator Peter Gammons has been named in Major League Baseball’s scandalous Mitchell Report, which yesterday exposed widespread use of steroids in America’s favorite pastime.



The legendary baseball analyst reportedly took steroids before the 2004 season, a year before he was honored by the Hall of Fame.



Gammons told the Mitchell investigators that ESPN cameraman Jim Mandino “injected me in the buttocks once a day for six weeks before the start of spring training in 2004.”



The steroids allegedly helped Gammons write faster, get more scoops and feel more confident in the locker room.



Gammons, as quoted in the Mitchell Report, was forthcoming: “Once I started taking Deca-Durabolin the words just flew off the keyboard. I was a machine. And in the locker room, well, I was one of the boys.”



Baseball players around the league said they were not shocked and that steroid abuse was widespread among the press corps.



“When Pete showed up in Florida for spring training in 2004, he was just brimming with confidence,” said Detroit Tigers slugger Gary Sheffield. “I was like, “Hey stud, you gonna make the team.”



Gammons’ production skyrocketed in 2004. After posting a previous best of 97 stories in 1970, the 59-year-old Gammons reported a record-setting 187 stories for ESPN during the 2004 season.



Colleagues say there was also a darker side to the Hall of Famer that year. “He was always carrying a bat around the office,” said one ESPN producer. “He was menacing. But no one said anything because he was carrying the entire broadcast team.”



After a brain aneurysm in 2006, the now 62-year-old Gammons said he decided he would “never take steroids again.”