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Squared Up: Case Closed
April 14, 2011 – 3:34 PM | 7 Comments
Squared Up: Case Closed

It didn’t take long before I started fast-forwarding through the parts of Baseball Tonight that concerned the Bonds trial. The outcome wasn’t entirely without interest for me, but until I heard an actual outcome, knowing …

What Might Have Been; What Was
June 3, 2010 – 12:37 PM | 21 Comments
What Might Have Been; What Was

It’s not that Matthew Pouliot didn’t let the body cool before deeming Ken Griffey, Jr. “overrated.” It’s not even that the word “overrated” is the very first word in the headline — that that adjective, …

I’m Here To Talk About The Present
January 12, 2010 – 10:33 AM | 43 Comments
I’m Here To Talk About The Present

This is not what I wanted to hear.
I don’t mean Mark McGwire’s admission that he used PEDs itself.I did in fact want to hear that, no matter how belated, because the discussion needs to move …

Gall Of Fame: Baseball’s Most Loathed Players
January 7, 2010 – 3:31 PM | 166 Comments
Gall Of Fame: Baseball’s Most Loathed Players

Which baseball player do you despise above (or perhaps “below”) all others?Which name, upon its mention, sends your heart rate up into a hate gyre?
Do you hate the same players now that you did when …

“Seriously, was anybody editing this thing?”
April 5, 2009 – 10:56 PM | 32 Comments
“Seriously, was <I>anybody</I> editing this thing?”

The other day, I received an email from reader Todd K in which he crabbed at length about Jeff Pearlman’s new book on Roger Clemens.I had just read in Sports Illustrated‘s baseball preview issue that …