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Rethinking our National Pastime: The "Let’s Get RIPPED" edition
Right or wrong, black or white Cross the line your gonna pay In the dawn before the light Live and die by the shades of gray -Shades of Grey, Robert Earl Keen I’m a fan of starting creative writing with a quote. Sure, it’s a lazy writer’s crutch, letting some other wordsmith create your opening...
Let's Go to the Videotape: Baseball Sells!
A while ago, we took a look at Mike Piazza's forays into the world of commercials. Of course, he is not the only MLB star to lend his face to a corporate endorsement. Baseball and commerce are both as American as apple pie, and as long as we've had professional players, we've seen them in...
Wednesday Rockpile: At Least Larry Walker Makes My 2012 Hall of Fame Ballot
Since nary a peep has been heard out of the Rockies since the announcement of the Casey Blake deal, I figured that it would be germane to discuss the big baseball topic at the moment -- the 2012 Hall of Fame ballot. The Hall is a very divisive topic among baseball fans, largely stemming from its...
The One-Way Street of Steroid Confessions
Is it possible to consider an argument valid while believing many of its most vocal proponents are full of it? Because I feel that way when it comes to one side of the Steroid Era debate. There are people who believe the rampant use of PEDs in the late 1990s/early 2000s tainted records and the game...
Morning Thread: Mozeliak Says Coaching Staff to be Set by Friday
As an open act to RB's post, I thought I start a fresh morning thread. According to a report in the Post-Dispatch this morning, John Mozeliak stated that the Cardinals coaching staff would be set by Friday but remained relatively non-committal as to how many members of the current staff would...
A Park Too Far
It appears that the Mets will finally acquiesce to Chipper Jones' demands and change the dimensions of CitiField, perhaps as early as next season. The complaints about its spacious contours bubbled up almost immediately after it opened in 2009, and have continued unabated ever since. Last week, the...
Forgiveness ain't worth a damn to MLB baseball writers
One of the biggest lies in sports is that if you come clean to something you did, you'll eventually be embraced. They said it about Pete Rose, who lied about betting on baseball for a decade and a half. They said it about Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds after they were implicated in steroid use. And...
Calls For Sandy Alderson To Apologize For Steroids Era Are Laughable
Ahh, performance enhancing drugs, the favorite finger-wagging topic of the Holy Writers Association Of America. Once the news of Sandy Alderson's hiring was leaked, it was only a matter of time until Mike Lupica or Jeff Pearlman produced a column questioning the role Alderson played in the rise of...
Clarification of My Cheating Story in Regards to KJ Noons and King Mo Lawal Using Oxygen
A ton of journalists in the MMA media, of which I'm not really a part of, I'm a blogger, are all over the oxygen canister controversy surrounding KJ Noons and King Mo. These tweets just came down the line from Josh Gross: This is what I learned w/one phone call and confirmed w/one text regarding ...
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