Tribune's Sleazy Math Continues

Turns out there were not nine former Cubs implicated in the steroids report, as the Tribune trumpeted yesterday, but twelve:

The 12 ex-Cubs mentioned are Hill, Todd Hundley, Kent Mercker, Jerry Hairston, Rondell White, Benito Santiago, Gary Matthews Jr., Matt Franco, Ismael Valdez, Rafael Palmeiro, Todd Pratt and Stephen Randolph. Ex-Cubs reliever Matt Karchner wasn't named but said he witnessed two unnamed teammates inject steroids in an apartment they shared during 1999 spring training.

Of course, none of those 12 Cubs are pictured on the front page of today's Tribune, despite the colorful tale of Cubbies poking each other in the bottom with needles. What pictures do they choose to run? Bonds, Canseco, Clemens, Gagne, Giambi, Pettitte, and Tejada. And what picture do they run of Canseco? One of him in a Sox helmet. Go figure.

America's Sleaziest Newspaper.