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• Take This Ball Please: Maybe You Don't Want Bonds' Home Run Ball

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:05 pm

  Tags: Barry Bonds, Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Steroids, Take This Ball Please

  Imagine, hypothetically, that you were the one to catch Barry Bonds' 756th home run ball. It's not gonna be worth as much as it would have been a few years ago -- you see, Barry Bonds has done a shitload of steroids, and many don't like that -- but it still might, say, pay for a semester of college. (Public college. OK, we kid: It's expected to go

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• Flying Water Duck: Mike Piazza Is Not Amused By Your Poland Spring

  Published: July 26, 2007, 1:05 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Flying Water Duck, Mike Piazza, Oakland Athletics

  Mike Piazza has suffered through much in his career. One time everybody thought he was gay. He once was traded to the Marlins. Also, one time, people thought he was a gay. It's been a tough life. But now, now he has suffered through the ultimate indignity. You see, someone someone threw a water bottle at him. And they'll pay: Oh, yes, they will

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• Professor Frink You've Done It Again: Fenway Concessions Now Serving Flaming Moes

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:55 am

  Tags: Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Professor Frink You Ve Done It Again, The Simpsons

  The Simpsons Movie is but a few scant hours away, and I must confess that I'm a little excited. And the Boston Globe is celebrating in its own way, employing that wonderful online utility, Simpsonize Me, to render several Red Sox players as they would look if they lived in Springfield and hung out with Homer J. Predictably, Terry Francona

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• Cat Fight: Curt Schilling Is Full Of Opinions!

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Barry Bonds, Baseball, Bob Costas, Cat Fight, Curt Schilling, Mark Mcgwire, Steroids

  "Steroids? Wha? OK, maybe baseball has steroids. Maybe. Not sure. Could be!" Anyway, he's hammering Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire again. "If someone wrote that stuff [Game Of Shadows] about me and I didn't sue, am I not admitting that there's some legitimacy to it?" Schilling said on the "Costas Now" program. "It goes to the Mark McGwire

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• Daily Closer: Fausto, Sans Devil, Beats Beckett

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:15 am

  Tags: Baseball, Cleveland Indians, Daily Closer

  Faustus is Latin for "auspicious" ... so Fausto must mean the same thing, maybe? My spanish is not adequate. Remember when the Indians wanted to make Fausto Carmona a closer? Oh, those wacky coaches. The last time Carmona faced the Red Sox -- last season -- he blew two consecutive save opportunities. On Wednesday as a starter, he threw eight

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• Old Guys: When An Old Athlete Is Put Out To Stud

  Published: July 25, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Craig Biggio, Old Guys, Randy Johnson

  Nothing in sports makes us feel older than when an athlete retires; often, we remember when they first came into the league, and realize that an entire career has passed while we slowly lurched closer to death. It's an uplifting feeling. Yesterday, Craig Biggio celebrate the announcement of his end-of-season retirement by hitting a grand slam.

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• Things You Can Do At A Game Other Than Watch It: Restless And Bored In Seattle, But Well Fed

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:30 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Seattle Mariners, Things You Can Do At A Game Other Than Watch It

  for something designed for baseball games...Coupled with the service fee, ordering food from the DS just isn't worth it when the vendors are so close to basically any seat...Instead of providing an 'instant replay' option, the video is a live feed about five seconds behind the actual game. It's also tiny-- I could see the action better from my

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• Sad State of Sports

  Published: July 26, 2007, 10:38 am

  Tags: Sports, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Michael Vick, Steroids, Tour De France

  Baseball is about to annoint a new home run king who has allegedly boosted his late-career stats with the help of steroids. Basketball is coping with a referee accused of betting on the game, including games he worked. Football is figuring out what to do about a star quarterback arrested on federal charges of dogfighting. And two leading Tour de

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• We're All Barry Bonds Fans

  Published: July 20, 2007, 3:09 pm

  Tags: Sports, Barry Bonds, Baseball, Steroids

  Major League Baseball wilted under social and political pressure and made steroids illegal--did not mean Bonds got a pass. You take performance enhancing drugs to help you do something you can't do within the limits of your pure ability. Bonds had a ton of pure ability, but he cheated his way to more.

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• Daily Closer: The Ballad Of Manny And Lefty

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:15 am

  Tags: Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Daily Closer, Manny Ramirez

  Sox "The Phil Mickelson of baseball." Wow. He goes on: "Lefty had once held the title of Best Golfer Never to Have Won a Major. Then in 2004, he won a major, the Masters. Since then, he collapsed in the 2006 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. This year, he faltered badly in the Scottish Open, a warm-up tournament for the British Open, then missed the

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• Over The Top Finally Getting The Attention It Deserves

  Published: July 27, 2007, 11:11 am

  Tags: Baseball, Film

  I think we can all agree that there's never been a finer film about arm wrestling than Sylvester Stallone's seminal "Over The Top." And it finishes second behind "Smokey and the Bandit" on my list of the best trucker movies ever made. Not exactly a lightweight, in other words. So it pleases me to see that the Brooklyn Cyclones are going to

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• Good Ole Grimsley: Are The Grimsley Affidavit Names Ever Coming Out?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Andy Pettitte, Baseball, Good Ole Grimsley, Jason Grimsley, Roger Clemens

  Remember the Grimsley affidavit? (Yes: That one.) Well, the Associated Press has been suing that the public has a right to know the names that are in the affidavit, and the government says it's an ongoing investigation. (A very ongoing one.) Anyway, a judge in Phoenix is set to rule on the case today. Even if he rules in favor of the AP, don't

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• Nice Shirt: Jose Canseco Is Very Cautious With His Speech

  Published: July 27, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Alex Rodriguez, Baseball, Jose Canseco, Nice Shirt, Steroids

  Jose Canseco confounds us, because he's obviously a moron, yet he's pretty much the only guy who's been right about this steroid business from the beginning. It's like learning Charles Nelson Reilly came up with some cinematic innovation 20 years ago. Anyway, he's spouting off again, and this time he's picking a high profile target. Yeah,

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• Minor Enterprise: Chatter Haunts Your Dreams, And Sees Straight Into Your Soul

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Minor Enterprise, Nightmare Fuel, Rick Chandler

  on the world of Minor League baseball. It's Rick Chandler's Minor Enterprise! On seeing this photo, my first reaction was to dive in and rescue the little girl from the terrifying, giant rat. But no, evidently it's a squirrel. This is how the Visalia Oaks (Class-A California League) described their mascot, when they were advertising for someone

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• An Ode to Craig Biggio

  Published: July 25, 2007, 10:29 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Sports

  one need to be the perfect baseball player? Perhaps an everlasting amount of intensity and persistence. Or maybe the desire to win with an intangible dedication to his team. Put together the steroid scandal and the increasing open market that leads to countless players recording a career on multiple squads, those things seem impossible to

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