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Who Knew About Lawton's Positive Test ... And When?
Since posting our item earlier today about Yankees free agent outfielder Matt Lawton testing postitive for steroids, we've received even further confirmation and now are slowly slipping out of rumor into fact. (UPDATE: Newsday is reporting that MLB will make an announcement about Lawton later toda...
Sources: Lawton Has Tested Positive
We've been hearing the same thing from several different, reliable people today, so, since this is what we do, we decided it was time to print it. Multiple sources tell Deadspin that Yankees outfielder Matt Lawton has tested positive for steroids and is currently entrenched in the appeals process,...
At Least He Wasn't Wearing That Dumb BK King Mask
Some stories, you really just have to let speak for themselves. General manager Theo Epstein evading reporters on the day he resigned by wearing a gorilla costume? That would be one of them....
A-Rod ... After Dark!
Oddjack is all over the big story this morning: Yankees lipstick model Alex Rodriguez has been chided by Yankees officials for playing cards in those infamous New York City underground poker rooms everyone's always talking about. Supposedly A-Rod has been playing poker under the cover of darkness ...
Something To Make Cardinals Fans All Sniffly
(Photo via Viva El Birdos, where you can actually see it much better.)...
Lenny Dykstra Likes Them Big Words
As we've mentioned before, we remain befuddled and terrified by TheStreet.com's hiring of former Phillies/Reds/Mets human chaw as a financial columnist. But every time a new column is posted, we keep thinking they'll admit it's a joke. But so far, nyet....
The REAL Reason Theo's Gone
That guy right there isn't just Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, strikingly handsome man; he's also Dan Shaughnessy, Most Hated Man In Boston. As if Shaughnessy hadn't caused Bostonians enough pain throughout the years with his Curse business, he might very well be the man most responsible ...
Coming Out Of The Blogging Closet
We didn't get to this yesterday, so we're gonna load you up on it now. Those two handsome gents right there are the fine minds behind Faith And Fear In Flushing, one of our very favorite blogs and definitely our favorite Mets blog. Yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal (or online, at least), WSJ.c...
Saying Goodbye To Theo
Well, it's a bad day for Hire Me Theo; shocking just about everybody, Theo Epstein has resigned as general manager of the Red Sox, sending just about every baseball blogger into full-fledged apoplexy this morning. (Baseball Musings typically is the most sober and rational, pointing out how much be...
The Mystery AL 'Roider: Sheffield, Says You
The results are in from our poll asking you who the mystery steroid postseason AL outfielder was, and the winner: Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield! We supposed we could have guessed that. Despite several commenters' insistence that it couldn't be Sheffield because the story was confirmed by the m...
Tracking Jay Mariotti's Herks And Jerks
One of our favorite things about the city of Chicago is that it still has two big, brassy, loud newspapers who love to snipe at each other. (And they're even just down the street from one another.) In one of those columns that make our lives worthwhile and meaningful, Chicago Tribune metro columni...
Just One Hour Left To Vote!
We're down to the last hour of voting in our "Who's The Mystery AL Roider?" poll, so if you're gonna get your votes in, do it now, or forever hold something that you would like to think is peace but is actually the screaming, tortured pain you've felt since you were a child....
Dodgers Rid Themselves Of Tweedy Math Dork
Not surprisingly, the sabermetric-friendly Web is all abuzz this morning after the firing of Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta on Friday evening. As always, Baseball Musings is on top of the story, looking at the aftermath of the move, tracking the journalists trying to make sense of it and ultimately set...
Vote: Who's The Mystery Roider?
Now that everyone in this little blog world of ours have confirmed that an American League outfielder has tested positive for steroids, the online world is abuzz with theories as to who it is. Well, we can't exactly just let this whole thing go by without naming some names, can we?...
Bob Broeg, R.I.P.
If you'll indulge us a little here, we have to comment on the passing of longtime St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Bob Broeg. He covered St. Louis sports — and, of course, the Cardinals — for 60 years, starting out as the beat reporter for the St. Louis Browns. He wrote more than 20 books about St. ...
Steroid Rumors Confirmed ... But Who Is It?
On Wednesday, we reported on USA Today Sports Weekly rumors of an American League outfielder who tested positive for steroids. Yesterday, on his "Sports Bloggers Live" radio show, AOL blogdude Mr. Irrevelant interviewed Baseball Prospectus' Will Carroll about the rumor:...
Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Umpires
Umpire Joe West was the crew chief for the World Series that just ended and apparently nobody watched. Cowboy Joe West ... hey, that's the same guy!...
White Sox Fans Cheer Phantom Series
Would it be fair to call this year's World Series the "Quite Frankly" of postseason series? The just-complete White Sox whitewashing of the Astros, turns out, was the worst-rating Series of all time, just beating out the Angels-Giants Series of 2002, a Series that had the advantage of going seven ...
More "Colbert Report" Than "After M*A*S*H*"
It is with much glee that we point out that the mad scientists at Yard Work — the brilliant satirical site featuring mock columns from ESPN luminaries, along with Rickey Henderson, Ozzie Guillen and countless others — have launched their first spinoff site: the affectionately named Hard Wood, whic...
Another Way Of Alleviating Baseball's Aches And Pains
Excellent pick up by The Sports Frog: A "massage parlor" in Princeton, N.J., has been accused of doing more massaging on the lower ventral areas of its clients' bodies than on the upper dorsal. The Newark Star-Ledger — your source for all breaking illicit massage parlor news — says the woman who r...