New Mayor League Baseball edict: we’re going to allow foreign substances on the field, but not for you pitchers. You must scrub your hands like you’re Macbeth and you just wacked three people.
Read moreWe forget sometimes that our heroes will not live forever. Hank Aaron has passed away, but his actions and words and comportment truly helped change the world. I love Hank Aaron, as much as you can love a man you’ve never met. I love his humility. I love his honor. I love his dignity. I love his effort. I love
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We got six of the holdovers from last year’s Hall of Fame ballot that should be enshrined in 2020.
Read moreTwo guys have named in baseball’s scandal of the last half century? How, exactly do they deserve to be recognized alongside those who didn’t cheat?
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Which new lame excuse will emerge for allowing players who cheated the game into a hall that is supposed to celebrate all that is good about the game? Photo by Bruce Fingerhood via Flickr
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I’m sick of the holier than thou b.s. around the Hall of Fame, especially after the recent selections of Pudge Rodriguez and Jeff Bagwell. There were many complicit in the Steroid Era, I won’t put this on the players or managers. The fact is that MLB was losing money and I’m basing my comments around their own Capitol Hill testimony.
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Keith Good’s weekly One-Act, an SNL-meets-MLB look at the week in baseball. This week, Dee Gordon copes in…interesting ways following his 80-game PED suspension.
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While the outfield wall remains a shade of green rarely seen in nature and the structure behind it nightmare fuel, elements of the Miami Marlins have received a face lift. And we’re not talking about Ichiro’s pursuit of 3,000 major league knocks.
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Writers and fans didn’t just hate Barry Bonds because they thought he was a cheater; they hated him because he never acknowledged that their opinions mattered.
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Peter Edward Rose belongs in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Peter Edward Rose doesn’t deserve to be in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Both statements are true. A baseball “Hall of Fame” without one of baseball’s greatest is a quaint exhibition. It’s a roadside burp from I-90, kin to the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota or the
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