A Rubber Door

Amazing candor from the NY Yankees’ Jason Giambi on steroids, and an admission on his part that he took them. If Barry Bonds would be this direct it would help his image somewhat.

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Last week the Philadelphia Phillies celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier in major league baseball. All of the Phillies players wore Robinson’s  number 42 to honor the anniversa. This is a far cry from how they celebrated the 10th anniversary of this occasion - by becoming the last [...]

Major League Baseball has decided to offer their Extra Innings package exclusively to Direct TV subscribers.  (Extra Innings allows a subscriber to watch every baseball game being played except for games in their local area).  The exclusivity is because Direct TV has offered to pay the MLB $700 million over the next seven years and [...]

Let me start this by saying I’m probably a little jealous.
This weekend the already Yankees/Red Sox focused national coverage will become even more so.  With the heated rivalry starting up again with 5 games in 4 days, you can forget hearing about anything else until Tuesday at best.
Of the 5 games, all but tonight’s second [...]

Just when it seems it couldn’t get worse for the Phillies.
The season has been horrible. They are 11.5 games behind the Mets. The manager is on the hotseat as are two thirds of the outfield and every pitcher not named Tom Gordon. Their “best” pitcher was arrested for beating his wife in [...]

Billy Wagner says that the Phillies have “as much talent talent as [the Mets]“. That “there is something lacking there”. That the team needs to be broken up. The funny thing is that the papers disregard him. The Phillies laugh it off. You may not like some of the things that [...]

This past Friday Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Brett Myers was arrested for beating his wife in public. In the days since we have seen what is wrong with the Phillies organization and why it’s the worst in all of pro sports.
Myers was arrested around 1 A.M. Friday, June 23. His next start against [...]

I’ve been writing a lot about bigots the last few weeks - it seems there are a lot of them out there. Chicago White Sox manager has been getting into trouble for his mouth for years and this week he got into more for calling a baseball player a “fag”. Of course he [...]