First Brian McNamee’s supplement-ad tie, now Jose Canseco’s Fleur-de-lis blazer and tight jeans. It’s worth nothing that Canseco has been proven honest about nearly everything he’s said in the whole steroids saga so far, but it still can’t be good for a defense when your key witness shows up in a sequined jacket:

If you’re not following this story, you probably should, even if you’re as sick of hearing about the whole steroids thing as I am. Turns out a whole lot of the controversy in the trial involves a pool party at Canseco’s house at which McNamee claims he saw Clemens speaking with Canseco about using steroids. Canseco and Clemens both say Clemens wasn’t even at that particular pool party, and say that pictures of Clemens in Canseco’s pool were from a different pool party, some other time.

Obviously the big revelation here: Jose Canseco has lots of pool parties. That’s the type of thing I imagined baseball players doing when I was eight years old and wanted nothing more than to spend all my time swimming and splashing around with my friends. So I just assumed then that baseball players hang out with their teammates and go to each other’s pools all the time, because hey, what else would you do if you were rich and famous?

I’m kind of shocked to find out I was right. I wonder, though, if the pool party in question was a formal affair or just the type of party that develops organically on a hot day in Florida when Jose Canseco wants to have a few friends over for a swim. Did he send out an E-vite first?

Come to Jose’s Swimming and Steroids Party! There’ll be volleyball, rage-fueled chicken fights, pizza, and of course, mebolazine.