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Yasiel Puig Gets Put In Time Out, Still Manages To Be The Hero
A bad day for Yasiel Puig turned into a very, very good night. Benched after a dugout meltdown and fined for being late, the Dodgers phenom came on as a sub and homered on the very first pitch he saw to put Los Angeles on top....
Here's Sad Charlie Manuel In A Supermarket Checkout Line
The Phillies are scheduled to play the Rockies tonight in South Philly. But Charlie Manuel won't be there. On Friday, Chollie packed his things into a little plastic Wawa bag and was sent on his way. He still showed for an autograph signing in the suburbs over the weekend, but now it's back to reali...
Dirk Hayhurst Live-Tweets His New York City Cab Driver's Hit And Run
Care to know how Dirk Hayhurst's commute to the Bronx for this afternoon's Blue Jays-Yankees game went? Take it away, Dirk:...
Twins Third Baseman Betrayed By Own Glove
Trevor Plouffe made a damn good play here, at least initially. He dived to his left to stop Juan Lagares's sharply hit grounder, then ... nothing. Plouffe's glove refused to give him the ball....
Hank Aaron's 715th Home Run As You've Never Seen It
Hank Aaron put up so many outrageous numbers over the course of his career that it makes 715 feel almost like an afterthought....
Fan Captures Lightning Strike Outside Giants Game
Grover Anderson was forced to endure last night's Giants game, a 7-0 whipping at the hands of the Red Sox. He calls this shot, from the fifth inning, "the only highlight."...
Heroic Yasiel Puig To Assembled Media: "Fuck The Media"
Before today's game at Marlins Park, the Dodgers' Yasiel Puig cut right to the chase regarding his thoughts on the people who write about him....
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."...