We interrupt "smart grid" week to bring you the following important announcement: I called it, motherfuckers.

On June 2nd, 2009, I wrote the following:

That list of 104 names of players who failed a confidential drug test in 2003? You know, the one that had Alex Rodriguez's name on it, which was leaked, but somehow not a single other player was? David Ortiz's name is on that list. I guarantee it. And the only reason MLB won't release the names is because Bud Selig is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Boston Red Sox.

From the New York Times this morning:

Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, the sluggers who propelled the Boston Red Sox to end an 86-year World Series championship drought and to capture another title three years later, were among the roughly 100 Major League Baseball players to test positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, according to lawyers with knowledge of the results.

Is it possible to get punched in the face with happiness? Or to take a kick to the groin from a rainbow? Because that's what I feel like right now. This news makes me so joyful that it is causing me physical pain. David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, stars of the hated World Champion Red Sox, were cheating. Say it once, and it sounds like praying. Say it twice, and I think I just messed myself.

For years, I have dealt with the epic collapse 3-0 Yankee collapse in the ALCS of 2004 with the knowledge that the key players on that Red Sox team were juicing. Yes, I couldn't prove it, but I knew it. I knew it I knew it I knew it. I. Fucking. Knew. It.  And yes, players on the Yankees were also juicing, of that I have no doubt either. But the difference is everybody hated the Yankees and loved the Red Sox. Alex Rodriguez was a cheat, but people hate him and love Ortiz. That Red Sox team was the Idiots, the lovable losers-turned-winners, with Papi as the big grinning teddy bear leading the parade.

Well, how are you loving him now, everybody? WHO LOVES YOU NOW BIG PAPI. Nobody loves you! Nobody loves you!

When A-Rod's name first surfaced, I declared that it was only a matter of time before the list came out. We now know 4 of the 100 players who were on the list, each one of them an All-Star with Hall of Fame credentials. What's left to protect? Surely the biggest stars on the list are already out.

The list is coming, and it is coming soon. Now that Selig can no longer protect his beloved Boston Red Sox, there is no longer any reason for the list to stay hidden. Mark my words - the list is coming.

And the pain that I felt the days and weeks after the 2004 ALCS? Gone. Evaporated. And the Red Sox fans wake up with that pain instead today, except its never going away. The stars of your championship teams are tainted. Forever.