Baseball memorabilia..bloody sock to bloody gauze??

When the Boston RedSox won their first World Series in nearly 90 years, a few years ago, they did so with the help of the pitching of Kurt Schilling who had to have some surgery on his ankle literally during the AL divisional series. Then during that WS, we all watched the game he pitched as the media focused on such a "gutsy" performance that he gave, while his stiched up ankle oozed blood. Which turned into the "bloody sock" gate later on where Schilling was even later accused of staging the whole thing. That turned out to be much about nothing. Still, we were left with people vying to buy a "bloody sock" to get a piece of baseball history, even to the point where the MLB Hall of Fame finally won out, and now that sock is on display.

But last friday may be all time doozy of baseball memorabilia. Last friday we learned that Clemen's former trainer, McNamee, not only accused Clemen's WIFE of taking human growth hormone injections, but to try and prove his claim that McNamee injected Roger Clemens with them, he produced syringes and bloody gauze pads that he claimed he kept in a freezer for SEVEN years!

Anyone else find this really creepy?

Ok, for now, let's drop the whole "guilt or innocence" discussion of Clemens. Because what I find FAR more disturbing is that as a big time baseball fan we have sunk so low as to now we have started considering that such things as cotton fabrics stained with bodily fluids are now part of baseball lore. This is really just wrong.

I mean come on, what's next? Not to be crass, but have we dipped so low into our quest of trying to immortalize our baseball heros as to have gone beyond dumpster diving for "trinkets", as to now start to see if we can save anything from blood to hair to urine samples???

It is one thing to go after uniforms, gloves, bats and equipment. But it then borders on sickness to start to go after such things as jock straps and cups. Which you can bet somewhere on Ebay, there is a guy who is offering such things.