By Sal Marinello
A quarter of the way through the 2008 baseball season power numbers are down and a lot of players are struggling. It’s the lack of steroids and growth hormone, stupid!
Doubles are down. Triples are down. If you extrapolate the numbers using the 25 percent of the schedule that’s been played so far, Major [...]
By Rebecca Glass
Over on Pete Abraham’s blog, the most recent post has commenters talking about the possibility that Yankees’ prospect Alexander Pope may one day pitch to Jesus Montero.
That, of course, got me thinking, could we create an All-Holy Team? Well, if we stretch our imagination, not too much, it might look something like this:
SP: [...]
By Derek Braid
My open love for the Toronto Blue Jays has caused me a measurable degree of strife when conjuring a topic for my Thursday MLB piece. As the date will attest, my reluctance to speak truthfully and realistically on the fate of this years Blue Jays squad and the MLB playoffs has delayed the [...]
“…and I do not mind saying I think they are taking a gamble.”
Thus was Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee’s assessment of Babe Ruth after trading him to the New York Yankees in 1919.
Yikes. I mean, yikes!
No doubt Frazee was trying to justify the trade in some psychological way since he could not afford [...]
Louis is neither a saint and York is not new. Talk amongst yourselves.
Baseball pre-season is right around the corner and in honour of this let’s hit up some statistics.
No mother, I did not get a real job.
Did you know that in 103 World Series editions, the New York Yankees (AL) and St. Louis Cardinals (NL) [...]
The baseball Hall of Fame recently inducted Rich “Goose” Gossage.
Meanwhile back at the Hall of Justice, Jim Rice and Andre Dawson discuss what to do with the Wonder Twins as the news hit that they were overlooked – again.
It is time to revisit these odd omissions – again.
Specifically, the case of Andre Dawson. Let’s begin [...]
EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT TUFFY! EXCLUSIVE!!!
Intrepid readers, I have uncovered a shocking attempt to undermine the integreity of the most important vote so far this year. I spent actual moments considering verifying this report from an unnamed source on deep background cover slideshow screening hush hush too shy eye to eye double secret probation.
A small band [...]
I know. There are too many important things to talk about than sports. Like how Paris Hilton’s grandfather gave away 97% of the family’s inheritance to charity. Grandpa Hilton is, like, so cool. The Trampstick may have to flip burgers after all.
The scene of Calcutta Hilton working at Wendy’s is one to make [...]
What’s the big hubabub-bub about steroids anyway?
It was legal and it helped star athletes heal better. And if they called a couple of call girls in the process all the better. A man has gotta relax.
So what he threw a broken bat at Mike Piazza and his gay porn pride mustache? [...]
In the aftermath of the release of the Mitchell Report pundits and fans alike have been expressing a variety of opinions and emotions associated with certain big name players being either in of out of the Mitchell Report, simply known as “the list.”
Nobody should get too comfortable just yet. If anything everyone needs to brace [...]