DUMB AND DUMBER: MARK AND JAY MCGWIRE
By Sal Marinello
Health and Fitness Advice
Comments made by Mark McGwire’s bodybuilding idiot of a brother illustrate A) what a joke body building is and B) why bodybuilders should NEVER be allowed anywhere near real athletes.
So Mark McGwire’s loose-cannon brother has come out with a book, and in it he details his big brother’s steroid and [...]
St. Jeter Canonized By SI; Woods Sees Frogs In The Forest
By Beaker
I’d like to comment on a couple of things: St. Jeter and Horny Woods.
Heard a celebrity PR, damage control expert (now there’s a gig. Like being a “life coach.” I gotta tell ya, if you need a coach to make you live you have problems. I digress) make the following assertion about the useless [...]
Sports Links To Enlighten: RSL Win MLS; Economy Hitting NYC Hard; Another Match-Fixing Scandal
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Wright Thompson penned this interesting article for ESPN about the costs of attending New York Yankees games titled, ‘Seats of Gold.’
Quick related story. When I heard Van Morrison was coming to Montreal last month, I immediately looked into getting a couple of tickets. Alas, economics came up from behind me and throttled my hopes. The [...]
How Much Of The Past Should Broadcasters Know?
I enjoy listening to people, in general, who have a sense of history. More impressively, people who know how to read history and keep it in proper context when consulting it for contemporary issues. After all, being intellectually disciplined can be challenging. If you don’t focus, you can go off on so many tangents and [...]
Phillies And Yankees In World Series
By Rebecca Glass
The World Series is supposed to be about the two best teams in each league duking it out for supreme bragging rights.
Often, this fails in favor of two teams that simply get hot at the right time, but this year, it is, in fact, the league’s two best teams going at it.
In one [...]
Rethinking Baseball’s Playoff Format
By Rebecca Glass
More than one person today has brought up with me an issue concerning the postseason.
It doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not Joba should start in a postseason series (and after being treated to his antics in person last night I am less than willing in this regard) or who starts [...]
Bits’n Pieces: Gretzky A No Show; Ernie Harwell Dies; Baseball Playoff Picture Set; Bills Have Bad Karma; Greinke And Mauer Having CY And MVP Season; Eurobasket
-What a shame Wayne Gretzky didn’t show up at the Phoenix Coyotes training camp. I know there’s all sorts of back room stuff going on but wouldn’t it have been cool if he stood by his team and players? This is going to be one tough year for the Coyotes. I don’t think I’ll be [...]
Stats Corner: A Most Amazing Accomplishment
Some statistics are just that impressive.
Consider Derek Jeter who sits just three hits behind Lou Gehrig on the New York Yankees all-time list. Jeter has 2718 hits in 2115 at-bats while Gehrig needed 2164 to knock in his 2721. So Jeter will likely have done it in less at-bats – I doubt he’ll go into [...]
Wild Card Races Heat Up
By Rebecca Glass
With just over a month left, the playoff races are beginning to take shape.
The division races are fairly clear: Yankees, Angels and one of Tigers/White Sox in the American League, and Phillies and Cardinals in the National League; surprisingly it’s the Dodgers who may have the most tenuous hold on their division lead [...]
