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What The Dumb Hysteria Over A-Rod And PEDs Is Really About
As you all know, Major League Baseball seems determined to prematurely end the career of one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Given that the 211-game suspension provides chance both to attack the never-popular A-Rod and to join a PED witch hunt, it has the enthusiastic backing o...

Brian O'Nora Is A Tough Sonofabitch
Home plate ump Brian O'Nora took a ball right in the throat protector during the seventh inning of last night's game. After gathering himself, and making sure his larynx hadn't been crushed, his first words were: "That's ball four."...


A-Rod Lawyer Melts Down On <em>Today </em>
A-Rod's lawyer Joe Tacopina "would love nothing more" than to defend A-Rod and to talk about his testing history. If only MLB would be kind enough to waive the confidentiality agreement in the joint-drug agreement!...

Tony Bosch's Lawyer Claims Alex Rodriguez Paid Her
No, wait! Maybe A-Rod is worse than Ryan Braun! According to an attorney for Tony Bosch, Alex Rodriguez paid her $25,000 to represent the embattled Biogenesis founder. ...

Red Sox Fans Think A-Rod Is A "Looser"
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Reports: Ryan Braun Claimed Urine Collecter Was Anti-Semitic Cubs Fan
Congratulations to Alex Rodriguez. For this brief moment in time, somehow you are not the most unlikable PED user in baseball! It took a heroic effort from Ryan Braun, but holy crap is this a bad look....

Alex Rodriguez Found His Only Defender In Joe Girardi
Just your typical four-hour, Yankees-Red Sox slugfest, with a rabid Fenway crowd calling for blood, a beanball, an ejection, a revenge home run, and multiple A-Rod bombshell stories dropping over the course of the game. This night, everything happened....

Ryan Dempster Beans A-Rod, But Joe Girardi Is The One Punished
Despite repeatedly throwing at Alex Rodriguez in an obvious attempt to bean the Yankees slugger, Red Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster avoided on-field punishment in an incident Sunday night that left Joe Girardi ejected, the Boston bullpen looking for a fight, and the Yankees banned from retaliation....

Phillies Finally Beat Dodgers On Walk-Off Error
On Friday, the Phillies fired Charlie Manuel and appointed Ryne Sandberg interim manager. He picked up where Charlie left off and was shut out in his first two games. But then Sunday rolled around and Hanley Ramirez decided to start handing out wins....

Kirk Gibson Is <i>Pissed</i> At Ryan Braun
Kirk Gibson, a manager of a Major League Baseball team, has called out Ryan Braun. He's super pissed at Braun and went so far as to mention how his wife blames Braun personally for stealing a World Series appearance from the Diamondbacks. Do you see how crazy this PED scandal is making people? ...

We Finally Saw An Idiot On The Field In Person
By "we" I mean "Tim Burke," and by "saw" I mean "properly recorded video with a smartphone in landscape mode."...

Someone Is Lying In This A-Rod Circus
Actually, circus is no longer a useful word. We just need to make up a new one to describe what is going on between the New York Yankees and Alex Rodriguez because it is an absolute colossterfuck. Rodriguez's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina made several serious allegations against the Yankees and president ...

Henderson Alvarez Almost Successfully Bunts With Levitating Bat
Henderson Alvarez had a rough fourth inning against the Giants last night. He gave up four runs thanks to a couple of walks, a couple of hits, a wild pitch, a three-way brain fart at first base and a balk. The next inning he tried to bunt his way on and managed to make solid contact on a pitch that...

A-Rod's New Lawyer Claims The Yankees Wanted His Hip Surgery Botched
Alex Rodriguez has hired a new lawyer named Joseph Tacopina, and he's accusing the Yankees of asking the doctor performing Rodriguez's surgery to make sure Rodriguez remained hurt and never played for them again. Tacopina is a lawyer who's made his reputation with outlandish statements, so this acc...


Report: Ryan Braun Will Soon Admit PED Use, Guilt
According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today Sports, Ryan Braun will apologize publicly at some point in the near future for his use of PEDs in 2011 and the lying that followed....

Terrible Person Grabs Foul Ball Away From Young Boy At Fenway
While much of the focus on last night's Yankees-Red Sox game landed on the Fenway faithful's treatment of A-Rod, the true villain in attendance was this gent who celebrated the achievement of grabbing a foul ball away from a little kid....

Charlie Manuel Takes His Shorti Hoagie And Walks Off Into The Sunset
The AP's Chris Szagola snapped a couple of photos of Charlie Manuel leaving Citizens Bank Park for the final time after being fired today as the Phillies' manager. I know it doesn't look like he's got a shorti hoagie in that bag. That's not the point. That plastic Wawa bag just makes these images th...

Jerry Remy To Take Time Off From Red Sox Broadcasts
Red Sox color commentator Jerry Remy, whose son Jared has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, will be replaced in the booth by Dennis Eckersley for tonight's home game against the Yankees and for next week's west coast trip, NESN announced....