McGWIRE SQUANDERS CHANCE TO COME CLEAN
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
Spare us the tears, Mark. It’s 2010 and nobody is buying the pathetic nonsense that you didn’t take steroids to help you hit home runs. Furthermore, if it weren’t for steroids – not androstenedione, creatine or any other supplement – Mark McGwire would have been out of baseball around the [...]
OF CANSECO, McGWIRE AND BURROWS: WHISTLEBLOWERS AND DENIERS SQUARE OFF
In the interest of time I (being of complete immature mind) decided to merge a couple of stories into one measley post. I’m sure it’s not good for the search google whatever it is they do rankings but we all have to do our part to save the environment - Non sequitur notwithstanding.
Jose Canseco, Mark [...]
Hawk Makes Hall Of Fame
Andre Dawson - The Hawk - has finally and rightly been elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame. I hope to try and get to Cooperstown - if time permits - to watch the ceremony. Good on Dawson.
Shame though that Hawk has stated he wants to wear a Chicago Cubs cap at the induction ceremony. His [...]
St. Jeter Canonized By SI; Woods Sees Frogs In The Forest
By Beaker
I’d like to comment on a couple of things: St. Jeter and Horny Woods.
Heard a celebrity PR, damage control expert (now there’s a gig. Like being a “life coach.” I gotta tell ya, if you need a coach to make you live you have problems. I digress) make the following assertion about the useless [...]
Phillies And Yankees In World Series
By Rebecca Glass
The World Series is supposed to be about the two best teams in each league duking it out for supreme bragging rights.
Often, this fails in favor of two teams that simply get hot at the right time, but this year, it is, in fact, the league’s two best teams going at it.
In one [...]
MLB Umpires Under Fire…Again
By Rebecca Glass
If no one says anything, you know the umpires are doing their job.
As with any officiating, the most successful are those that go unnoticed, unheeded and forgotten as though they’ve never been there in the first place.
Alas, if this is the case, the MLB umpires responsible for officiating this postseason have done a [...]
Rethinking Baseball’s Playoff Format
By Rebecca Glass
More than one person today has brought up with me an issue concerning the postseason.
It doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not Joba should start in a postseason series (and after being treated to his antics in person last night I am less than willing in this regard) or who starts [...]
Stats Corner: A Most Amazing Accomplishment
Some statistics are just that impressive.
Consider Derek Jeter who sits just three hits behind Lou Gehrig on the New York Yankees all-time list. Jeter has 2718 hits in 2115 at-bats while Gehrig needed 2164 to knock in his 2721. So Jeter will likely have done it in less at-bats - I doubt he’ll go into [...]
Why Bill James Is Wrong About Cooperstown And Steroid: Part 1 And 2
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
Part 1
Baseball statistical maven Bill James published a paper last month detailing his thoughts on the steroid in baseball issue, and wrote that he was, “finally ready to say what I have to say about it.” James makes some good points along the way, but overall his 4-page missive is [...]
