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Ryne Sandberg Joins Wade Boggs In The "Stay Out Of Our Club" Brigade
If you are currently in the Hall of Fame and anywhere near a microphone, please state your preference on whether "steroid era" players deserve plaques like yours. Ryne Sandberg is the latest to go on record with a "no." More »
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Comment by Artie Fufkin: Sandberg is a questionable Hall of Famer himself. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Media Meltdowns
Journalist Who Bravely Uncovered McGwire's (Perfectly Legal, Over-The-Counter) Drug Use Up For HOF Award
In 1998, the AP's Steve Wilstein spotted a bottle of legal supplements in Mark McGwire's locker. A decade of stupidity and Reefer Madness hysteria ensued, the Bill of Rights died a little, and now people think Wilstein belongs in Cooperstown. More »
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By Tommy CraggsComment by shea_guevara: The other chapters of BBWAA would angrily protest Wilstein's shallow HOF credentials, but they've all got severe neck cramps from... 7 Responses | Other threads
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mlb
Bud Selig's Sosa Strategy: Plead Ignorance, Then Change The Subject
"I don't know whether this story is accurate or not.... people are gonna have to make their own judgments in the future.... Are they accurate? I don't know. You all will have to make that judgment." [Sports Radio Interviews]
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By Ben CohenComment by Doug Dascenzo's Only Fan: This is an old picture of Selig savoring the morning after a crazy night of finger banging Marge Schott. 4 Responses | Other threads
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lou piniella
Lou Piniella Doesn't Know About This Whole Steroid Thing The Kids Are Doing These Days...
The Cubs combustible manager remained calm, but plead ignorant, to Sammy Sosa's steroid use. And the reefer. [The Fightins]
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By DAULERIOComment by HernandezStache: "I thought the Chinese stopped putting that HGH shit in their food? It's NO HGH. Atleast that's what Ichiro told... 5 Responses | Other threads
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mlb
Sammy Sosa Reportedly Tested Positive For PEDs In '03. Whatever.
Sammy Sosa was among the players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, The New York Times is reporting, a revelation that means nothing whatsoever unless you care about Sosa's Hall of Fame chances or the Fourth Amendment. More »
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By Tommy CraggsComment by The Governor: If he hit 40 HR in 2003 with steroids AND a corked bat, what kind of crazy shit was he... 5 Responses | Other threads
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mlb
Sammy Sosa Does Not Come To You For A Contract Offer
Sammy Sosa is now 40 years old. And despite hitting a serviceable 21 homers and 92 RBI in limited action in 2007, he didn't play last year, and he probably won't play in 2009, either. Especially when he thinks that teams should be chasing him. These are the misunderstandings that occur when times get tough and you're forced to lay off your translator. More »
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By Josh ZerkleComment by Cialis Cooper: "Any team who wants to sign me should have the initiative and make an offer." Which is the exact reason you... 1 Responses | Other threads
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revisionist history
MLB.tv Ignores The Existence Of Barry Bonds And Sammy Sosa
Ken Griffey Jr. wasn't able to hit his 600th homer yesterday, depriving the Great American Ballpark fans from the opportunity to see the milestone. (And then see Griffey get traded.) The Reds now take off on an eight-game road trip, and you'd have to think Griffey's gonna hit at least one over those eight games. And that would make him the fourth ever player to hit 600 homers. Wait ... fourth? Well, according to MLB, yep. More » -
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Come Celebrate An Old Man's Victory Lap
Not that any of you were wondering, but this is clearly why Sammy Sosa came back after "retiring:" He gets to make this ridiculous face in front of a stadium full of fans who still aren't quite sure what to think of him. More » -
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Baseball Remains Very Good To Sammy Sosa
As the last smidgen of interleague play fades from our consciousness — and we'll never forget that magical June of 2007! — we lament, for a moment, that tonight's Rangers-Cubs game will be played in Arlington rather than at Wrigley. We would love to see how Sammy Sosa's homecoming to the Friendly Confines would have went. More »
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By LeitchComment by Capt.Insano: @a single mother with a penis: Sorry, just got in and saw this comment. I still spend time in youtube... more » | Other threads
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About Last Night
• MLB. Rangers 7, Reds 6. Sammy Sosa's 599th home run dramatically lifts the Rangers to just 17 games under .500. More »
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By mjdeadspinComment by Tuffy: Weekend Daddy, I called last weekend's replacement "Dan" the whole time. He's not the Weekend Daddy. You're the... more » | Other threads
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just magnetic, that guy
Sammy Sosa, Back Before Everybody Hated Him
We just stumbled across this old video for Sammy Sosa's High Heat, a 2001 video game that's "so reeeeeeal." In light of Sosa's recent resurgence, and his gallop toward his 600th homer, we thought you might find it amusing.
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By LeitchComment by The Count of Monte Fisto: @Shea Guevara: the Road to the Show feature in the new one is particularly addictive. more » | Other threads
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Look, Another Steroids Story
Poor George Mitchell. Most people thought his steroids investigation into baseball was doomed more than a year ago, when it began, because if you don't have to talk to a guy like that, why would you? What, this guy's gonna bust this wide open? George Mitchell is a respected public figure, but, you know, not exactly urgent about this whole thing. More »
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By LeitchComment by Come a little Miroslav Klose You're My Kind of Man: @Weed Against Speed: Dressed up like David Bowie, c. '84?... Yeah. more » | Other threads
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baseball
Looking Back At Sosa's Halcyon Days Of Yesteryear
Among the worthless — but muscular! — heap of relics from the 1998 Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa home run chase? The priceless Slammin' Sammy: The Sammy Sosa Story, an animated "feature" about Sammy Sosa and "how a hero became a legend." More »
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By LeitchComment by businessorleisure: Dude... someone please hire me to write these ridiculous short films. In a world where the possibilities are possible, one man... more » | Other threads
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baseball
Albert Belle, Still Available
It's official, folks, if you can handle it: Sammy Sosa and the Texas Rangers have agreed on a deal. Sosa will receive $500,000 on a one-year contract and will be invited to make the team out of Spring Training. It's good to see that the new Rangers manager Ron Washington is attempting to be realistic about the signing. More » -
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Sammy Sosa Is Too Fat For Japan
Wednesday, we told you about how a Japanese team was close to signing Sammy Sosa, forcing him to pretend not to be able to speak Japanese. Well, it turns out that the Japanese have had a change of heart, thanks mostly to trans fatty acids. More »
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By LeitchComment by #### Vermeil Equals Emo: Or the porn: Shawon Dunston Checks In With Ryne Sandberg To Let Him Know That He Also Tagged His Wife. more » | Other threads
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baseball
Sammy Sosa-San Could Rack Up The Yen
While his old "pal" Mark McGwire is battered about on every cable channel, Sammy Sosa continues to cast about to find somewhere to peddle his wares. With the major leagues, uh, unlikely, it is only natural that he would look eastbound. And he might have found himself a winner. More » -
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Sammy And The Cubs, Together Again?
In case you thought Sammy Sosa was out of baseball for good, and you were really broken up about that, well, there's hope. Sosa told a radio station in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday that he is not retired, and would resume his major-league career for the right offer. That, according to ESPN. More »
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baseball
So ... We've Got Some Affidavit Names
Everyone's guessing about who the blacked-out names in the Jason Grimsley report are, and it has been a fun parlor game so far. But we all knew eventually the names would get out. And we've been digging around ... and some sources have given us some names.
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Sammy Sosa's Dramatic Plummet
The sad but ultimately fitting saga of Sammy Sosa appears very near its close. Sosa, who hadn't received a single offer all offseason, finally was tossed a $500K, non-guaranteeed deal from the Washington Nationals, who actually didn't have a position for him to play. And now it appears he doesn't want it. More »
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By LeitchComment by Andy Lurie: In my own self defense- I can see how anyone would get tired of the word schedenfreude, BUT... I've been... more » | Other threads
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baseball
Athlete Run-In: Sammy Sosa, Way Back When
Today's final athlete run-in story is about the late, great Sammy Sosa. Wait, Sammy Sosa isn't dead, you say? Well, you could of fooled us; the guy is a couple of tattoes and a miniskirt away from Rodman country. (Yesterday he begged baseball media to pay attention to him by saying he's going to sign with a "surprise team.") Anyway, this story comes to us from Charlie in Alabama, from back when Sammy was beloved, a nice fan-friendly fellow and, of course, totally not on steroids. More » -
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Set Tivos To C-SPAN!
Like most people, we watched last spring's and summer's steroid hearings with many healthy dollops of amusement; it was alternately: More » -
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Raffy's Mystery Roiding Buddy
Having exhausted the bottomless well of information that is Jorge Piedra, Congress is now investigating whether a teammate might have provided Orioles mustachio Rafael Palmeiro with steroids. Supposedly, Palmeiro said in closed-door testimony that he was given the substance by a fellow Oriole "by accident," and that he actually named the player. More » -
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Sayonara, Sammy
It would be safe to say that it has been a difficult year for Orioles outfielder Sammy Sosa. He had that somewhat inexplicable testimony before Congress, where he apparently forgot that he knew how to speak English quite well. The Cubs ran him out of town, and he showed up in Baltimore just in time to have a horrific season and receive nothing but boos. How bad has it gotten now? The hot rumor is that Sosa only option for next year will be to play in Japan, the only country where he's still popular. There, he could make about $3 million a year; here, he could be lucky to land a minor-league contract. We would say something like "my, how the mighty have fallen," but we feel like the best word here is probably "deflate." More »
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