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I was a little sad to hear that Mike Piazza retired this week, unsigned and out of uniform. For Barry Bonds to fade out of baseball and disappear unclaimed and unwanted makes sense. It is unfortunate to see the greatest offensive catcher ever ride off into the sunset without a grand tour [...]

Forgive the mix of Scottish lyrics and the combination of Loch Lomond with Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken.

The low road is the short “high” road of syringes of HGH and steroids, paved with lucrative contracts gained through performance enhancement… properly at the cost of immortalization in the shrine of Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall [...]

Commentary on the Mitchell Report on baseball player doping…

Where’s a Jimmy Dugan to straighten out this mess? Baseball’s pathetic owners wouldn’t allow an actual lover of the game like Bob Costas or George Will to clean house and ruin their poker game.

I’m usually the last to leave my office. Around 6pm, Maurice comes to our building to tidy the four suites on our floor and the one suite on the floor below ours. Tonight he asked me how he thought “our Dodgers” would do this year, and the conversation turned to my asking him [...]

Its 9:30 on a sunday morning and I’m standing on the sun scorched grass of a high school practice field watching 10 little boys in bright orange Tiger jerseys facing down one loan Met with a 29 inch aluminum bat in his hands. Standing on first and ready to run is another little Met. [...]

I’ve been following the coverage of doping in the cycling world over at Bicycle.Net
and thinking a bit about the nature and value of sports.
In the 1730s the RamChaL, an Italian Jewish philosopher and Kabbalistic mystic, wrote a guidebook to doping and cheating in sports. Well, he probably didn’t have sports in [...]