Damien Cox of the Toronto Star evidently saw fit to turn his shit-disturbometer up to 11 earlier this week, when he wrote a blog post essentially insinuating that the Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista was using performance-enhancing drugs. Bautista was an unheralded free-agent acquisition by the Jays two seasons ago, whose previous claim to fame was [...]
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Steinbrenner, as he’d want to be remembered
Well, I have no idea how a man I’ve never met — and who I pretty much considered the Emperor Palpatine of baseball — would want to be remembered. But with the death of former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, I figured it was as good a time as any to share a rare [...]
On regret, redemption and handlebar moustaches
Saying “sorry” is a hard thing to do.
Scratch that — saying the word “sorry”, in a disingenuous attempt to move beyond an uncomfortable situation, is troublingly easy.
But apologizing — expressing genuine remorse for something you’ve done and the way it’s affected other people — that is hard. It’s hard because the first step is taking [...]
How to fix baseball, in five easy steps!
(Cross-posted to Infield Fly.)
With the Major League Baseball season getting underway today, it’s a yearly rite of passage for every writer with even a passing interest in the game to throw out a half-assed, half-baked bunch of theories on how to “fix” baseball — baseball, you see, is much like a sex-obsessed canine, in that [...]