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King Thong! The Best of the Jason Giambi Headlines

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:16:42 -0400

Yankees slugger Jason Giambi admitted to Portfolio's Franz Lidz that when he goes into a slump he wears a lucky thong. Not a jockstrap. A thong. Sometimes when other Yankees go into slumps—like Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Johnny Damon, Robinson Cano and Robin Ventura—they've worn his tiger-striped thong too.

And here's how the papers and blogs headlined it over the weekend:

GIAMBI SINGS NEW THONG, New York Post
FRONT PAGE: BOMBER GOES LONG IN A...

Giambi Tries to Reverse the Irreversible

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:16:57 -0400

Joe Girardi’s decision to use Jason Giambi as his regular first baseman was anything but a no-brainer. Certainly, Giambi’s recent history argued against it.

Giambi is hoping that a doctor’s diagnosis and his first-ever winter that included running will allow him to be an exception to the rule that first basemen become designated hitters, then slowly fade away. And Girardi is clearly betting Giambi will be the exception to the rule, playing him at...

George Mitchell Steroids Report Names Clemens, Giambi, Pettitte

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:44:04 -0500

Players including prominent New York Yankees Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi and Andy Pettitte were named in former U.S. Senator George Mitchell's comprehensive report on steroids use in baseball released Thursday afternoon. Below is the complete list of players implicated in the report. Depth of evidence varies, of course: Brian Roberts was named by a teammate through hearsay, while the report contains cancelled checks from Paul Lo Duca along with a handwritten thank-you note on Dodger...

Luxury Roundup: Edie Falco, Johnny Damon, and 740 Park

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:47:02 -0500

Edie Falco has just signed a lease on a four-bedroom home near Sag Harbor. Also, there is further evidence that Adelaide de Menil may be unloading her 40-acre estate, for $100 million. (New York Post) Democratic fund-raisers Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel have found a buyer for their $20 million apartment at 720 Park. In December, The Observer reported that the power couple were moving 10 floors below, and had put this apartment...

Voluntary Testing For Baseball's Hulks

Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:00:00 -0500

When it was revealed that Yankee slugger Jason Giambi used steroids, Major League Baseball pretended to be stunned. The club owners all professed to be shocked- shocked!-by Mr. Giambi's admission and pledged to get steroids out of the game. And the baseball players' union got all contrite and made an unprecedented offer to reopen the collective-bargaining agreement.

But it's hard to imagine that anybody outside the cocoon of Major League Baseball was surprised. Everybody who...