SPACEMAN TOKED WITH BUSH

Former major-league pitcher Bill (Spaceman) Lee said he's rooting for
George W. Bush in the U.S. presidential race because he once smoked pot
with the candidate.

"The way things are now, people want to party and George W. is the kind of
guy you can party with," the Montreal Gazette quoted Lee as saying.

"Back in 1973, we rolled a couple of doobies [marijuana cigarettes] and
smoked them together. And I can tell you -- he definitely inhaled."

Lee, who lives in Vermont, also told his Bush story in one of his regular
appearances on a Montreal television show, The Expos This Week.

Lee, the former rebel left-hander with the Montreal Expos and Boston Red
Sox was often at odds with baseball authorities during his career and once,
when facing suspension for the use of illegal drugs, claimed he only got
marijuana to sprinkle on his breakfast cereal.