Dumbest Things in Sports, Vol. 1: Major League Baseball is punishing players for talking to each other at the batting cage, but not for taking steroids.
That is so Bud Selig.
Here’s the deal: Baseball can’t afford to legislate steroids. Steroids, you see, make players stronger. Stronger players hit homers. Homers saved the game in 1998 amid poststrike fan hatred. Homers will be needed to save the game after this year’s strike. Connect the dots, people.
I think Ken Caminiti just wrote Jose Canseco’s tell-all book.
And then Caminiti took it back. And then the goof can’t figure out why there’s such a big deal being made over his comments that half the league is juicing up. Guess we have proof that ‘roids help your muscles, not your neurotransmitters.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said O’Hare Airport is not the worst polluter in the area. The study said toxic emissions are worse on the Southeast Side and in Moises Alou’s spot in the order.
Former Cubs left fielder Rondell White went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a run scored in a 10-6 abuse of the White Sox on the same night that Alou was going 0-for-5, including a weak tapper to the mound with the potential winning run on third, in a 3-2 loss to the Pirates.
White, who signed for $4.5 million a year, was hitting .251, which was not good, but it was still a staggering 74 points better than the $8 million-a-year Alou.
Is Tom Gordon coming back cranky and unreliable the way he has been, or will he realize that Antonio Alfonseca is the guy doing the job?
Pittsburgh twice, Houston once–at some point, Mark Prior will have to face a real team and not just the clowns in baseball’s worst division.
The Cubs are down 4-0 in the sixth and the pitcher is leading off, but the team with a finicky offense does not send up a pinch-hitter. Yeesh.
Matt Clement, thrill ride.
Maybe I’m coming to this late, but there is a Web site called firedonbaylor.com. The goal is 40,000 signatures, which is pretty much one game at Wrigley.
Break up Richard Hidalgo.
I thought it was terrific of Sox fans to give Robin Ventura a standing ovation.
I thought it was terrific that the Sox actually had enough fans to give a standing ovation.
When the Sox come home Monday from their series in Cleveland, they will spend 27 of the next 38 days in Chicago through the All-Star break, playing 19 games in Comiskey and three in Wrigley.
Kip Wells had an ERA of 3.00 after 10 decisions with the Pirates. This from a guy who used to have an ERA of 3.00 per inning with the White Sox.
Sox pitching coach Nardi Contreras never got Wells to pitch quickly and well. Sox general manager Ken Williams traded him because he didn’t know whether Wells ever would pitch quickly and well. Who looks worse when Wells is 8-2? Let’s vote.
Did the Sox get enough fans during the Yankees series to allow Williams to buy back Wells? Kip, I mean. Not the Wells slob in New York. You have to make sure you’re specific with the Sox’s GM on these name things.
Just guessing that Keith Foulke’s All-Star chances aren’t so hot now.
Does Foulke choke in the big games, or do the games he blows suddenly become the big games?
Nancy Lopez, your table is ready.
Dumbest Things in Sports, Vol. 2: European soccer fans–They love their teams to death.
Come on, who didn’t have Senegal over France in their World Cup brackets?
Soccer is what schoolkids do when chorus is filled.
Let me see if I have this right: The World Cup lasts 31 days, or until someone scores a goal.
The NBA draft is three weeks away. Yao Ming already has been whistled for two fouls.
Just asking: Paul Byrd?
Carolina beat Toronto to go to the Stanley Cup finals, and I’m thinking, hockey just went from “Eh?” to “Aaoogah!”
Mariners manager Lou Piniella, on dealing with players who have bad reputations: “I look at the player on the field and how they perform. Anything outside of Attila the Hun, I think I can handle.”
