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Alex Cora had himself a nightIt’s starting to slip away from the Boston Red Sox. After an excellent July, the Carmines have run to nowhere in August with a 10-10 mark which has left them five games adrift of the last wildcard spot. Which isn’t a huge surprise, given that this team was built to basically win 84 games and give th...

Scott Kazmir returns for first start in five yearsAfter José Godoy became the 20,000th player in major league history on Friday, Rays’ shortstop Taylor Walls debuted on Sunday, becoming No. 20,001....

Baseball's Cranks Agree: The Sport Was Better When They Were Part Of ItHall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage has been complaining about the state of baseball for so long that his complaints have spanned multiple decades of the sport. It feels like just yesterday, he was lecturing Joba Chamberlain on “the Yankee way.” (Joba Chamberlain is now retired.) Eleven years later,...

Random Baseball Rap Lyric Of The Day

Packin' more hits than Lou Piniella... ...

Fake Lou Piniella Blasts A-Rod In Bizarre, Rambling Radio Interview

Update: This is not Lou Piniella, it's a dumb radio bit. My mistake. ...

Red Ass Lou Screws The Pooch (Just Like Earl Knew He Would)

Following up on yesterday's Mark Kram article on the Red Sox and Orioles, here’s a bit of Earl Weaverness for you, from a chapter I wrote about the 1974 American League East for It Ain’t Over ‘Til it’s Over:...

Lou Piniella Made A Super-Awkward Reference To Rape During Today's Yankees Broadcast

So the Toronto Blue Jays took a lot of talent from the Miami Marlins during the last MLB offseason. One could probably find lots of words to describe the trade effectively. "Raided." "Pillaged." "Ravaged." "Pilfered." "Devastated." "Looted." "Purloined." One would probably not want to say "raped." ...

Wearing A Fish Bib And Singing An Italian Song Did Not Give Tommy Lasorda Or Lou Piniella A Heart Attack, TMZ Says

This was the scene Sunday evening at Bamonte's, an Italian restaurant in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn that's been open since 1900. Bamonte's is a wonderfully old-school red-sauce joint—try the stuffed peppers appetizer and the eggplant rollatini—and it's not uncommon there for a couple of ol...

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If Sideline Princess Is Already Taken, Jenn Brown's Friend Has A Promising Career As An Alcoholic Luchadora

Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

It's Your Last Chance To See Lou Piniella Gesticulate Wildly On The Field

Lou Piniella will retire following this season, adding yet another name to the ignoble list of those the Cubs have irrevocably broken. [Chicago Breaking Sports]...

by David Matthews|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Lou Piniella Bawls Out With His Balls Out

Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....

by katiebakes|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Ozzie Guillen's Twitter Is Spectacular, Controversial

Twitter was invented for people like Ozzie, whose brains are relatively unfiltered in the first place. And while he hasn't done anything wrong yet, White Sox management are understandably nervous....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Lou Piniella Doesn't Live By Your Namby-Pamby "Laws"

After White Sox GM Kenny Williams was ticketed and fined for jaywalking last week, Sweet Lou gets off with just a warning. Racism? Or just an affinity for the senior circuit? [Chicago Tribune]...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Milton Bradley Is Uncomfortable, And So Is A Certain Water Cooler

Lou Piniella, Milton Bradley and a water cooler — not as sexy a ménage à trois as it sounds. And unfortunately, it turns out the water cooler is the Lucky Pierre in this uninviting threesome....

by Ben Cohen|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Lou Piniella Adds Context To The Soto Stoner Saga

"Look, I have smoked dope one time in my life, and it didn't do a damn thing for me, and I never tried it again.... But a lot of people do (smoke marijuana). You can buy it in California from a pharmacy." [ChiTrib]...

by Ben Cohen|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Lou Piniella Doesn't Know About This Whole Steroid Thing The Kids Are Doing These Days...

by A.J. Daulerio|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Rod Blagojevich Will Tweak Your Lineup

Did former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich really once give Lou Piniella lineup advice? And more importantly, why didn't Piniella take it?...

by Rick Chandler|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

A Little Music For the Late Night Crowd

Thanks to Awful Announcing for providing video of the worst rap in the history of car commercials (and that's a long list). I would have liked to have been in the room when the ad guys pitched this to Lou and Ozzie. I bet it sounded a lot more like the rap we're used to. Well, the vocabulary at leas...

by Retired|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Lou Piniella's Balls Are Not Taking Questions Tonight

Being a sports reporter is, at times, an absolutely horrible job. Sure you get to watch games, travel and interact with athletes, but there is a horrendous downside. (Which is pretty much everything else.) And this is never more disturbingly clear than when a reporter has their first (or 50th) awful...

by DAULERIO|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Don't Panic Just Yet, Cubs Fans

Because we are committed to the month of October affording us as little sleep as possible, we stayed up and watched the whole Cubs-Diamondbacks game last night, and we don't quite understand all the fuss about Lou Piniella pulling Carlos Zambrano after the sixth inning....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

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