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Baseball Season Preview: Houston Astros
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Baseball Season Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Baseball Season Preview: Washington Nationals
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That's Not Quite What Pete Said, Actually
With all the hullabaloo around Pete Rose's "admission" yesterday that he "bet on the Reds every night" — a story so overblown that even Katie Couric was talking about it, chatting with beer pong specialist Armen Keteyian — Keith Olbermann, who did the Rose interview along with Dan Patrick on ESPN Ra...
Baseball Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Ben Affleck Wants To Brainwash Your Baby
Anyone who has seen Daredevil — or anything, really — knows that a new Ben Affleck video is cause for genuine concern. But this news is even more terrible than you might imagine; it seems that the rabid Red Sox enthusiast is after your baby....
Mariotti Is Tired Of These Mother****ing Snakes In This Mother****ing Press Box!
Here's one thing we love about baseball: It doesn't matter how old you are; Little League, college, majors ... everything completely and utterly stops when someone sees a snake. You could be making millions of bucks; jaded, aloof, lawyered up and possibly juiced, and it doesn't matter. "Hey man, che...
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."...
"Please, Sir, May I Have Another?!"
Ah, spring training. A time to work all the kinks out, ease one's self into the rigors of a long baseball season, iron out all the soft spots in your game. And for Red Sox prospect Jacoby Ellsbury, it's when you learn how to handle a thrown baseball hitting you in the head from two inches away. All ...
Baseball Season Preview: Minnesota Twins
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
What Tommy Lasorda Dreams ...
This is Tommy Lasorda during a Dodgers spring training game yesterday, dozing off during a spare moment and having visions, of course, of "swirly moves."...
Baseball Season Preview: Cincinnati Reds
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Another Reason Baseball Players Shouldn't MySpace
This is CJ Wilson, a reliever for the Texas Rangers, an up-and-comer, a LOOGY, if you will. He also has a MySpace page and is pals with teammate Brandon McCarthy, who also has a MySpace page. They're buddies, along with, as always, an endless supply of buxom blondes who write things like "p.s. you k...
Baseball Season Preview: New York Yankees
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Wait, Who's Teaching Whom Here?
You know, nothing is going to encourage kids to head out there and hit the books than an interactive reading session with Tampa Bay Devil Rays Shawn Camp and Rudy Lugo, particularly because each and every one of the kids is better at reading than Shawn Camp and Rudy Lugo. (Seriously, those SUPERSTAR...
MLB Pretends It Cares, A Little, Barely
So, if you buy what Major League Baseball is spinning, yesterday's announcement that the Direct TV wouldn't necessarily be an exclusive deal is great news, a chance for fans to still watch their favorite out-of-town team without having to buy stupid DirectTV. After all, cable providers have until th...
It's Almost As If He Had Poor Role Models
So, remember William Ligue Jr., the maniac who jumped Royals coach Tom Gamboa for no apparent reason about five years ago? Well — and you're not gonna believe this — apparently he might not have been the best influence on his son, who was sitting next to him that night....
Baseball Season Preview: San Francisco Giants
You might remember, from back at the beginning of the NFL season, when we previewed each team by having a writer we liked write about their favorite team....
Not A Gift You'd Give To A Tigers Pitcher
So, you're a huge fan of your team, so much so that you'd like to spend eternity in their warm embrace, but you also insist that you be cremated at death, so as not to attract worms, Jay Mariotti and other underground dwellers. That is to say, This is not an option....