Category: Major League Baseball
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
If I hear the word “steroids” again, I think I will go crazy. I used to be a huge baseball fan back in the day but with the ‘94 lockout and the steroids talk that has gone on for the last ten years I have simply walked away from the ...
Posted in MLB, St. Louis Cardinals | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 31st, 2009
When will baseball get this right? Why not release the whole 104 player list created in 2003 for players who tested positive for steroids? The big names continue to trickle out of the list as Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz both have been linked to this steroid abuser list.
While Manny ...
Posted in Boston Red Sox, MLB | No Comments »
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has to be fairly pleased with the state of affairs in the game he presides over. Attendance is still fairly solid despite a weak economy. The Yankees and Red Sox are shaping up to have a fantastic battle down the stretch. Ratings for the ...
Posted in MLB | No Comments »
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Pedro signs! Pedro signs! Ok, I'm not that excited about it necessarily but it is good to think that fall baseball might have Pedro Martinez in it. Since leaving the Boston Red Sox following their magical run to the World Series title in 2005, Pedro has been largely irrelevant. Injuries, ...
Posted in Boston Red Sox, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies | No Comments »
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
No one would have been surprised if you told them Slammin' Sammy Sosa was juicing it when he was going home run for home run with Mark McGwire. If the news came out then, there would have been an outrage, I'm sure people would have called for a year long ...
Posted in Chicago Cubs, MLB | No Comments »
Friday, June 5th, 2009
No Rickie Weeks? No Ben Sheets or CC Sabathia anymore? No problem. The Milwaukee Brewers are playing solid baseball to start the 2009 season and closer Trevor Hoffman is a big reason why. The baseball season is just about a week into its third month and former longtime closer for ...
Posted in MLB, Milwaukee Brewers | No Comments »
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Here's your stat of the day: 63 suspensions have been issued this year under baseball's minor league drug program and only two under the major league program. Fishy, yes? Or, are there different stipulations between minor and major leaguers? Like, different laws for minors and a different set of rules ...
Posted in Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds, MLB | No Comments »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Anytime there's a big performance enhancing drug story that comes out, there's one guarantee - Jose Canseco is lurking right around the corner. Canseco wrote his book "Juiced" in 2005 basically outing Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Rafael Palmiero, Pudge Rodriguez, Juan Gonzalez and many others as steroid users. They all denied it ...
Posted in Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Lance Berkman doesn't quite get the same national publicity that some of the other big bats in the Big Leagues. That's not to say he's totally off the radar, but if you think about the type of numbers he's put up for the Astros in recent years, you'd think we'd ...
Posted in Houston Astros, MLB | No Comments »
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
SRI continues our Spring Training Roundups with the American League East. When most people think about the American League East it's always the Yankees and Red Sox. Last year, perennial doormat Tampa Bay Rays and all their young talent finally put it all together and won the division and represented the American ...
Posted in Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, MLB, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays | 2 Comments »
