Not really, but a funny take on what might be, courtesy of Jon Bois on Fanhouse.com.
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Move over, Jose. Roger Clemens wants to join the band of ballplayers turned … well, words fail me. According to news reports, Clemens is considering writing his own book to answer allegations about his use of PED. During an on-line interview on Houstonist.com, the question was asked, “Do you believe that you will get a [...]
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By Allen Barra, via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Upshot: “Cooperstown Confidential” is bold, intelligent, gutsy. [Author Zev] Chafets is strongest on what is soon to be the next controversy of the Hall — steroids. and … if you don’t like Roger Clemens — and there are so many who don’t that one questions why the authors [...]
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Bobby Feller’s generation complained about the high salaries of the players that came after them. Now Wade Boggs speaks for the players from his era on the steroiders and their possible entry into the Hall of Fame. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpj7M_ik77Y&hl=en&fs=1&] Can chicken be considered a performance enhancing food? Come to think of it what about that? Why [...]
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This isn’t so much much justified because you can put the Times on a bookshelf, rather it addresses a more important issue (soap box alert). I came across this entry from JimmyScottshighandtight.com, a website from a fabulously faux pitcher (think along the lines of a Sasha Baron Cohen, someone who pulls off a character perfectly). [...]
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According to this item by Don McKee in the Philadelphia Inquirer: In case you have to buy a present for someone you really don’t like much, take a look at Selena Roberts’ unauthorized biography of Alex Rodriguez. According to the Associated Press, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez has been a major disappointment. Since [...]
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Yes, according to this post from The Tao of Stieb, a Toronto-based blog. Last month, we had some time to kill at a Chapters megastore….What we were met with was depressing enough to make us literally (and I mean literally) recoil and walk away. The baseball section was a wall that was almost completely filled [...]
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I love Pardon the Interruption, and not just because the show tends to tend to agree with my point of view and vice versa. On yesterday’s show, Messers Wilbon and Kornheiser weighed in on the Raul Ibanez steroids situation, which I had addressed earlier in the afternon. (Funny, but the whole situation stemmed from a [...]
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I may be mis-remembering my old classes, so bear with me. Players who are over a “certain age” and are enjoying a good year probably take performance enhancing drugs. The Phillies’ Raul Ibanez is over a “certain age” and is enjoying a good year. Therefore, Raul Ibanez is probably taking PED. This is what it’s [...]
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Remember when I noted that the robert’s book on A-Rod was coming out on May 12? Oc fourse you don’t, which is why I’m putting a link here. Well scratch that. According to the Times, it comes out May 4. “A-Rod, The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez” (HarperCollins), by Selena Roberts, asserts that Rodriguez used [...]
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First it was the endless chatter about The Yankee Years. Seems the media just couldn’t keep their yaps shut about how Joe Torre dissed his players and bosses, blowing totally out of proportion thefew entries that actually addressed said topics. Well, brace yourselves, boys and girls. It’s about to happen again. When the news first [...]
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The line comes from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Go look it up. But I’ll tell you it refers to ganging up on someone unmercifully. Not that I have any sympathy for Roger Clemens, but jeez, guys, enough already. How many ways can you say “ham and eggs?” (Sorry, Rabbi.) Jeff Perlman’s book on Clemens [...]
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In today’s NY Times, Joshua Robinson has a little piece, “Piazza Leaves Quickly, and Quietly, After Ceremony.” He writes about the ceremonial first pitch battery of Tom Seaver and the former Mets catcher. While Tom Terrific hung out afterwards to shmooze, Piazza, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen. Escorted by security, he went from the [...]
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Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality, by Jeff Pearlman. Harper, 2009. Over the last several years, almost every baseball fan — and a lot of non-fans as well — have felt a sense of betrayal. Their heroes have feet of clay; the emperor has no clothes. What makes the situation all the more [...]
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Some people don’t know when to shut up. A-Rod, for example. Doesn’t he have enough people mad at him without this self-serving piece in Details magazine? “Listen,” Rodriguez says. “I was thinking about one thing that I spoke about—it’s something that’s kind of trivial but will give me a hard time for no reason.” He [...]
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, by David Stinson
, by John Thorn.
, by Molly Lawless.
, by R.A. Dickey with Wayne Coffey.
, by Bud Harrelson with Phil Pepe
, by John Grisham
, by Bruce Spitzer
, edited by Rob Fleder
, by W.P. Kinsella
* Reviews (and then some): Cooperstown Confidential
June 23, 2009 · 0 comments
From the MLB portion of Fanhouse.com, this piece on Zev Chafets‘ new and controversial book on the Hall of Fame. And another from The Hardball Times. Upshot: Chafets doesn’t portray himself as a baseball expert, a la Bill James. He clearly is a fan of the game—and a passionate one—make no mistake about it, but [...]
Tagged as: Baseball Hall of Fame, PED, steroids, Zev Chafets
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