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Olympic baseball won’t feature best vs. best and that’s a shameIt’s exciting that baseball is back in the Olympics for Tokyo after having been out of the program in 2012 and 2016. It’s also going to be a weird mix of intriguing and disappointing to watch it all unfold, because while there are going to be familiar faces, the Olympics happening simultaneously wit...

We Are All Kyle Freeland's MomYou root for a no-hitter, even as a disinterested fan; they’re rare and they’re exciting. But there were extra reasons to root for Kyle Freeland’s no-hit bid against the White Sox. He’s a rookie, for one, and was making just his 18th big-league start. He’s a Denver native, and was bidding to become ...

Melky Cabrera Does Not Like Thunder. Not One Bit. A big-ass thunderstorm rolled through the St. Petersburg area last night, and it was bad enough to briefly knock the lights out at Tropicana field while the Rays took on the Blue Jays. It was also bad enough to scare the crap out of poor Melky Cabrera....

Melky Cabrera's HR Broke A Car Windshield Across The Street From Fenway

Toronto's 14-1 win over Boston was an all-out pummeling, punctuated by Melky Cabrera's second home run on the night, a three-run shot in the nine-run sixth inning. Cabrera's shot to left-center, officially tracked at a disappointing 410 feet, completely cleared the stadium and cracked a car windsh...

Former Expos Announcer Loses His Mind On Melky Cabrera Home Run

My French is a little rusty, but I think former Montreal Expos announcer Rodger Brulotte just sang "I love baseball and this Melky Cabrera guy almost as much as I love sucking down a nice burgundy and five million cigarettes. Good night, it is gone." ...

Melky Cabrera Tries To Throw A Baseball. It Does Not Go Well

Here's the GIF that pretty much sums up your season, Blue Jays fans....

Baseball Blogger/Waitress Claims Melky Cabrera Left Her A Shitty Tip

Getting away with bad tips is harder and harder with the prevalence of smartphones. One way to guarantee you won't get away with it as a baseball player is by leaving a bad tip for a baseball blogger....

Bob Nightengale Is An All-Star Of Pearl-Clutching

Poe's Law, PED edition—Take a look at this lede, and just try to convince me this is real outrage and not a parody of concern-trolling:...

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He got the silent treatment yesterday after his first home run as a member of the Blue Jays, but Melky Cabrera still got to high five all of his imaginary teammates....

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon May 06 2013

Report: A-Rod, Gio Gonzalez, Nelson Cruz, Melky Cabrera, Others Named In Records Of Miami PED Dealer

Set aside some time to read Tim Elfrink's bombshell story in the Miami New Times, on what can only be termed BALCO East: a Miami "anti-aging clinic" that specializes in HGH, synthetic testosterone, and any other performance-enhancing drug you can imagine. We know this because the clinic's director h...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Law Enforcement Agencies, MLB Investigating Anthony Bosch For Distributing HGH And Testosterone

The Bosch name sounds familiar because Anthony's father, Pedro—an actual doctor—is the man who prescribed Manny Ramirez the female fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin in 2009. Anthony—who is not a doctor, despite his claims—is now being investigated by both federal and state law enforcement ...

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Melky Cabrera Is A Toronto Blue Jay, And No One Knows What Will Happen Next

How are we supposed to think about the reported two-year, $16 million contract the Toronto Blue Jays just gave 28-year-old Melky Cabrera, the Yankee-turned-Brave-turned-Royal-turned-Giant, the prospect-turned-fatass-turned-presumptive-batting-champion-turned-disgrace-turned-webmaster-turned-martyr-t...

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

The Giants Are Headed To The World Series Without One Of Their Best Players Because They Are Stupid

The San Francisco Giants will play in the World Series with a stupid, self-inflicted handicap. They will be without Melky Cabrera, their best regular-season hitter. Cabrera, whose 50-game performance-enhancing-drug suspension just ended, was left off the Giants' postseason roster for the dumbest of ...

by Tom Ley|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Baseball Is Banning Melky Cabrera From Winning The Batting Title Because Baseball Sucks

A little over a month ago, Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera tested positive for testosterone and was suspended for 50 games. Old farts got even more upset about it than they usually do, because, when the suspension hit, Cabrera was just a few points behind Andrew McCutchen for the National League bat...

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Melky Cabrera's Fake Website Sent MLB Investigators All The Way To The Dominican Republic

Can we all just take a second and appreciate how batshit insane Melky Cabrera's scheme to get out of a PED suspension really was? Like, legitimately incredible. In five years, it's going to be hard to believe this is a thing that actually happened. Like Jason Grimsley crawling through the Comiskey d...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Rick Sutcliffe Wants Melky Cabrera Deported

And here we thought the dumbest thing to happen since Melky tested positive for taking testosterone was that Melky and his crew had cooked up a fake website to try to prove his innocence. Pshaw. Melky has not been charged with a crime, but that's of no concern to ESPN baseball analyst/sheriff Rick...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Melky Cabrera Cooked Up A Phony Website To Try To Beat His Suspension

The New York Daily News has discovered that in an effort to beat the rap on his 50-game suspension, Melky and his "associates" devised a scheme that included purchasing a website for $10,000, making this website appear to sell a fake product and pretending Melky purchased and used the product, unaw...

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

The Crime Dog Rips Melky Cabrera A New One

Every morning, the fine folks at Sports Radio Interviews sift through the a.m. drive-time chatter to bring you the best interviews with coaches, players, and personalities across the sports landscape. Today: Fred McGriff has no sympathy for Melky....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Melky Cabrera Totally Ruined This Kid's Day

The San Francisco Chronicle has a gutpunch of a piece, telling the story of one little boy looking forward to the best birthday ever: a day at the ballpark to watch his favorite player, Melky Cabrera....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Did Performance-Enhancing Drugs Actually Help Melky Cabrera?

Since MLB announced Melky Cabrera's 50-game suspension for testosterone earlier this afternoon, a few folks have been crowing about what a fraud Cabrera is. Evidently Cabrera's sin is worse than the usual steroid stuff because he improved dramatically over the last two years and planned to parlay th...

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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