Taint, Misbehavin'

If you went to Safeco to watch Rafael Palmiero get his 3,000th hit last month, guess what? Your precious baseball milestone memory is now tainted forever. Palmiero was suspended today for steroid use.

Palmiero maintains that he "never intentionally put a banned substance into my body." And while Seattlest is so credulous that we actually believed Brian Bosworth to be innocent of steroid use, we have our limits. The substances banned by Major League Baseball are not to be found in common ingestible products, not even in Cheetos.

In other news, the Mariners waved the white flag over the weekend, trading useful players Randy Winn and Ron Villone to contending teams. Useless Miguel Olivo, who's spent more time on the bench than William Rehnquist, was unloaded on the Padres.