Mike piazza gay
LAST CALL: Piazza tells earth that he's happy to be gay ... no,really
The New York Mets' all-star catcher isn't the only Mike Piazzapublicly defending his sexuality these days.
15 July 2002
The New York Mets' all-star catcher isn't the only Mike Piazzapublicly defending his sexuality these days.
The baseball player conducted a press conference help in May to squelchrumors that someone in the major leagues was about to come out of thebullpen, and that it might be him. "I'm not gay ... I date women,"Piazza told reporters.
Turns out the senior pastor of the world's largest gay and lesbianchurch, Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, is named ... you guessedit ... Mike Piazza.
The irony wasn't lost on the Rev. Piazza, who's been on sabbatical inSavannah, GA this summer compiling his guide, Queeries: Questions Lesbianand Same-sex attracted Folks Have for God.
Rev. Piazza said he didn't feel the need to defend his homosexualityuntil a gate spook read his name while boarding a plane and proclaimed,"I am sure happy you aren't gay!"
In too big a rush to dig The Advocate from his backpack, Rev. Piazzachronicled the experience in the church newsletter, and c
Mets legend Mike Piazza spills on Clemens, same-sex attracted rumors and steroids in new memoir
HONEY: Debbe Dunning of “Home Improvement.”
WIFE: Playboy hottie Alicia Rickter at 2005 nups. (ZUMA Press)
MR. CLEAN: Piazza denies using steroids but took supplements. (Jeff Zelevansky)
Beloved Mets catcher Mike Piazza comes out swinging in a new memoir — confronting rumors about being gay and taking steroids, detailing his passionate home runs and finally settling the score with his hated rival, Roger Clemens.
The book, “Long Shot” (Simon & Schuster) comes a month after Piazza, arguably the greatest hitting catcher of all time, fell 98 votes short of being voted into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Many think he missed because of persistent rumors he used performance-enhancing drugs during a 16-year career.
The 44-year-old makes no bones about holding a grudge against Clemens for beaning him during a July 8, 2000, game, and for the infamous bat-throwing incident later that season against the Yankees during the World Series.
The 98-mph fastball to his helmet could have been deadly.
“I truly believe that if I hadn’t gotten my top down at the last instant
There are still no homosexuals in baseball.
Not officially, anyway.
A gossip column in Monday's New York Post repeated what it called "a persistent rumor around town that one Mets star who spends a lot of day with pretty models in clubs is actually lgbtq+ and has started to think about declaring his sexual orientation."
If so, the unnamed star apparently is still thinking about it.
Because the only Mets star who declared anything Tuesday was Mike Piazza, and he said, "I'm not gay. I'm heterosexual."
For a ballplayer to acknowledge otherwise, of course, would be committing professional suicide.
Last summer, the editor-in-chief of Out, the nation's largest-circulation same-sex attracted magazine, claimed to be having an affair with a pro baseball player "from a major-league East Coast franchise" whose existence would be improved considerably if he disclosed his homosexuality
"I have concluded," Brendan Lemon wrote, "that coming out would, on balance, lessen his psychic burden. Sure, he'd contain to deal with the initial media avalanche and the verbal abuse of some bleacher bums, and there'd be a teammate or two who'd possess an adolescent 'Oh, my God, he saw me naked in the showers' resp
PIAZZA KOS RUMORS: ‘I’M NOT GAY,’ MET Actor SAYS
PHILADELPHIA – Yesterday in the City of Brotherly Love, Mike Piazza said he’s strictly a ladies’ man.
Hoping to lay rumors about his sexuality to rest, the Met catcher addressed a media contingent before last night’s 4-0 loss to the Phillies at the Vet and stated flatly: “I’m not gay.
“I’m heterosexual,” Piazza said. “I can’t control what people reflect. I can say I’m heterosexual. I date women. I don’t see a need to address it any further.”
Reporters from New York and Philadelphia jostled for position in a semicircle off the third-base line during the five-minute interview at the beginning of the Mets’ BP. Piazza referred to a rumor that was published in Monday’s edition of The Post.
Although columnist Neal Travis never mentioned any players in particular in his item – which concerned a Met star thinking about coming out of the closet – Piazza’s identify was one of those that circulated in the city and in baseball circles.
One Met teammate said he heard about the latest rumor when he arr
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