Chinese Soccer Ref Attack Leads To Lifetime Ban

First things first: trying to attack a referee is poor form for any number of reasons. You’re not going to accomplish a damn thing other than getting yourself in a metric assload of trouble. Punching somebody isn’t worth it.
(I was at a soccer match…

and a track and field meet broke out! Yes? No? Fine, […]

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Bronson Arroyo Has Those Androstenedione Blues

It’s just one day before the trading deadline, and your team, the Cincinnati Reds, are trying to trade you. So if you’re pitcher Bronson Arroyo, you do the logical thing: Tell a major newspaper that you were using both androstenedione and amphetamines in 2003. That should grease the wheels.

With the news that his then-Red Sox […]

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Twitter And Live Baseball? Oh, This’ll Be Good

Ever notice that television companies really have no idea how to incorporate other, newer technology into their broadcasts? We don’t either, for what it’s worth, but TV shows go ahead and incorporate anyway, leading to such disasters as CNN anchors reading Tweets live on air. Why? Nobody knows why, but they “want to hear from […]

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Speed Read: MLB Ump Fist Bumps Marlin Catcher

This mustache belongs to the most hated man in Atlanta, MLB umpire Bill Hohn:

(”No, you listen to me, I’m telling a ‘you might be a redneck if…’ joke and there’s nothing you can do about it.”)
Hohn has been a bit suspect (to say the least) with his calls in games involving the Braves this […]

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Is Canseco Trying To Tell Us Cal Ripken Juiced?

McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, ARod, Manny, Papi: Can it get any worse?

(If Canseco sez it wasn’t Rickey, then which HOFer is on 2003 steroid list?)
Based on what Jose Canseco said Thursday, probably.
Everyone’s favorite circus side show guested on ESPN 950AM in Philly to talk about the latest steroid revelation, which implicated David Ortiz via a […]

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