HBT: Late '90s Mets had 'porn room,' Leiter says

This is just silly on top of silly now, which is what makes it so much fun.

Al Leiter was on the Dan Patrick Show today talking about the Red Sox and their beer, chicken and video games clubhouse. ?The tone of the conversation was one with which I totally agree: they?re grownups and ballplayers and while everyone is making a big deal out of all of this now, let?s be realistic and admit that it?s much ado about nothing. Sure, you don?t want your athletes getting fat, but let?s not pretend that that there has been some moral or ethical breakdown in Boston, OK? ?If the Red Sox pitchers were spending their time with salads, mineral water and canasta we probably wouldn?t make anything of this.

Or if it was porn for that matter.

Why porn? ?Because Patrick asked Leiter if it was true that the Mets teams of the late-90s and early oughts had a ?porn room.? ?Which, while it sounds salacious, is really just a way of implying that boys have always been boys and it will forever be thus. ??Porn room?? Big deal. It?s not like every frat house, locker room and ship in the United States Navy isn?t lousy with such things.

Except the question kind of rattled Leiter. You can watch the video over at SportsGrid. ?Anyone who has ever tried to first joke away and then sort of explain away a mildly?embarrassing?truth will recognize Leiter?s vamping toward an answer. ?And Patrick?s smiling. ?Whether the Mets really did have a porn room back then was an open question when Patrick asked it, but I think the matter was more or less settled by the time Leiter was done answering.

I don?t care a lick that a bunch of professional athletes had a ?porn room.? ?I?d probably be more worried about the state of young athletes in this nation if they didn?t have one. ?But you can?t listen to Leiter try to talk his way out of having to answer that question without laughing.

Between that an all of the fried chicken stuff, this has been the best beginning to the offseason in a good five years.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/13/beer-and-fried-chicken-amateurs-the-late-90s-mets-had-a-porn-room/related/

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