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Let's Go to the Videotape: Baseball Sells!
A while ago, we took a look at Mike Piazza's forays into the world of commercials. Of course, he is not the only MLB star to lend his face to a corporate endorsement. Baseball and commerce are both as American as apple pie, and as long as we've had professional players, we've seen them in...
Wednesday Rockpile: At Least Larry Walker Makes My 2012 Hall of Fame Ballot
Since nary a peep has been heard out of the Rockies since the announcement of the Casey Blake deal, I figured that it would be germane to discuss the big baseball topic at the moment -- the 2012 Hall of Fame ballot. The Hall is a very divisive topic among baseball fans, largely stemming from its...
The One-Way Street of Steroid Confessions
Is it possible to consider an argument valid while believing many of its most vocal proponents are full of it? Because I feel that way when it comes to one side of the Steroid Era debate. There are people who believe the rampant use of PEDs in the late 1990s/early 2000s tainted records and the game...
Morning Thread: Mozeliak Says Coaching Staff to be Set by Friday
As an open act to RB's post, I thought I start a fresh morning thread. According to a report in the Post-Dispatch this morning, John Mozeliak stated that the Cardinals coaching staff would be set by Friday but remained relatively non-committal as to how many members of the current staff would...
A Park Too Far
It appears that the Mets will finally acquiesce to Chipper Jones' demands and change the dimensions of CitiField, perhaps as early as next season. The complaints about its spacious contours bubbled up almost immediately after it opened in 2009, and have continued unabated ever since. Last week, the...
Calls For Sandy Alderson To Apologize For Steroids Era Are Laughable
Ahh, performance enhancing drugs, the favorite finger-wagging topic of the Holy Writers Association Of America. Once the news of Sandy Alderson's hiring was leaked, it was only a matter of time until Mike Lupica or Jeff Pearlman produced a column questioning the role Alderson played in the rise of...
Mark McGwire and one-dimensional players
Though Scott Ouroboros has tried his best to start a bidding war the Matt Holliday News Snake seems to be eating its own tail—when last the bidding over his services ran out of juice there were the twin specters of the Cardinals offering him a preposterously long contract worth a lot of money...
Wednesday's Frosty Mug
Some things to read while getting a new backpack. So apparently Gary Matthews Jr. wants out of Anaheim, and some Brewer fans (including Al) think he could be a good fit in center field next season, if the Angels agree to pay most of his salary. Meanwhile, Angels management is somewhere hoping and...
Monday Rockpile: Projecting pitchers, Bill James-style
Not much news on the Rockies out there. If you're an Indians fan, you can discuss hiring Manny Acta as manager. Or if you're a Cardinals fan, there's a rumor going around that Mark McGwire will be the new hitting coach for the team. Seems it isn't a rumor anymore. That's ripe for discussion. But...
Members of the 500 Home Run Club Not In The Hall Of Fame
With Gary Sheffield just joining the 500 home run club as its 25th member and Jim Thome about to tie Mike Schmidt for 13th on the all-time list, I thought I would take a look at the group of ten players who have hit 500 home runs and aren't in the Hall of Fame. To define the average Hall of Fame...
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