Steroids and Baseball–Let The Records Stand
The report everyone’s been on the edge of their seat anticipating was released today. Of course, there were the names you’d expect to see (Bonds, Giambi, Sheffield, and McGwire), but there were some surprising names on the list: Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, and Eric Gagne, among them. Notice something here? The pitchers are/were juicing too…not just the [...]
That’s Not A Steroid Problem…THIS is a Steroid Problem.
Reason brings up some excellent points about athletics, police, and steroid abuse. Given that police officers carry guns, night sticks, and tasers, and that they have the power to use lethal force when necessary, one would think our politicians would be more concerned about illegal use of a drug known to contribute to fits of [...]
He Plays, err, Blogs the Right Way
All the recent talk locally about proper link attribution prompted me to finish a post I started a while back about blogging and baseball. “Everything I need to know about blogging I learned from watching baseball”? Eh, don’t really like that title too much. Plus it sounds like link bait, and I’d never do that. [...]
More Evidence That Ricky Be The Greatest
The WSJ Numbers Guy, Carl Bialik, talks about the impressive numbers that Jose Reyes is putting up this year in stolen bases and the growing success of stealing in general. It’s no surprise that Jose Reyes has stolen 63 bases and been caught stealing just 15 times, for a success rate of 80.8% — Reyes [...]
Why Can’t a Guy Like This Run For Public Office?
George Will’s column in yesterday’s Washington Post is about MLB umpire Bruce Froemming. There are several good stories told in this short column, but this one is my favorite: A story for Froemming: Rogers Hornsby, who averaged.400 over five years, was facing a rookie pitcher who threw three pitches that he thought were strikes but [...]
Bonds Hits 756
With 500 home runs at 32 years old, here’s to a long and healthy career for Alex Rodriguez–the guy with the best chance of knocking Bonds off of this perch.
One Gorilla at a Time
All the talk about Barry Bonds has apparently quieted all talk about Chris Benoit. I guess the media only has so many minutes of each day it is willing to devote to steroid junkies? Somewhere, a kid is saying, “see…steroids can help you do really good things too.” The real question…will anyone ever be World [...]
Concensus versus Truth–Global Warming, Babe Ruth, and Rickey Henderson
The other day, a friend sent me an article from the KNS  about recent temperatures in East Tennessee, presumably trying to convince me that global warming is real and that the temperatures and phenomena in this area for the past 20 years prove it. All of this stemmed from a conversation we had a few days before [...]
Professional Wrestlers Linked to Steroids?
Huh?! What?! The hell you say! Randy Orton, Ray Mysterio Jr., Edge, and Kurt Angle (Olympic gold medal in real wrestling) are all named. Okay, taking steroids without a doctor’s prescription is illegal. Oh wait, the article says they had a prescription. Either way, the gov’ment should do something about doctors prescribing dangerous steroids to [...]
