Dodgers need a slice of Piazza in 2008
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 to let his [...]
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- Roger “General Jessup” Clemens
February 14th, 2008Clemens: You want answers? Congressman: I think I’m entitled to them. Clemens: You want answers? Congressman: I want the truth! Clemens: You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has baseballs. And those balls have to be hit by men with bats. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Congressman? I have [...]
- Poet Robert Frost on Baseball’s Doping Scandal?
December 20th, 2007Forgive 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 [...]
- Floyd Landis Speaks
November 26th, 2007 - Barry Bonds Needed Viagra, Lover Says Steroids Killed His Bat
October 3rd, 2007Asking men… [poll=2] REUTERS: Kimberly Bell, 37, spoke to Reuters ahead of the Friday publication of a nude pictorial spread in Playboy in which she discusses a romance that started in 1994 and continued into Bonds’ second marriage. … Bell, who used to work as a graphic designer in the San Francisco area but now [...]
- Bond’s Armor Contributes to Home Runs More Than A Corked Bat – Will Barry’s Hall of Fame HINGE On This?
August 9th, 2007You know, I was going to photoshop something using the Six Million Dollar Man and his bionic arm, but that’s so dated… you can’t even get a middle reliever for $6M these days. Barry Bonds’ HR Record Tainted by Elbow ‘Armor’? By Michael Witte Published: August 06, 2007 10:45 AM NEW YORK (Commentary) Beyond his [...]
- Cheating, Lying, Doping – a philosophy of failure
May 27th, 2007I’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 mind when [...]
