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posted on Mar 7, 2006 - Go to the detail view for this result
Gene Mauch, journeyman big-league manager for 26 years, died Monday at 79. Few suffered through more on-field misery for so long than Mauch, who is best known for presiding over the Donnie Moore game in '86. He also had the honor of managing the expansion Expos for seven years. But in spite of the awful teams he skippered, Mauch cobbled together a respectable 1,902-2,037 record and is lauded by two generations of players as one of the game's preeminent strategists and teachers.
posted on Aug 9, 2005 - Go to the detail view for this result
Pedro, I love you like a brother, but STFU already.
posted on Dec 18, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Ladies and gentlemen meet your 2005 Washington Senators Nationals.
posted on Nov 22, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
Is anyone else sick of Curt Schilling? Tom Boswell is, in a passive-aggressive sort of way: "A nasty injury, gruesome enough to make for good melodrama, but medically insignificant enough to allow him to throw a baseball 92 mph... Pedro Martinez...has felt a bit slighted by Schilling's large, sometimes self-serving persona... Yankees Manager Joe Torre made it clear that he thought Schilling, consummate tough professional that he is, was not doing significantly more by pitching through the inconvenience of an ankle injury than many other players have done in postseason baseball, where countless players take the field held together by tape and a high pain threshold." An interesting perspective from outside the Nation.
posted on Oct 25, 2004 - Go to the detail view for this result
posted to Baseball at 12:27 PM CDT
Dwight Gooden is wanted by the police! Here we go again with another ex-athlete in trouble!
posted to Baseball at 12:21 PM CDT
Yeah, this isn't exactly a model citizen's fall from grace.
posted at 1:09 PM CDT on August 23
Start spreadin' the news. Randy Johnson "got a little physical" with a TV cameraman in New York today, and was heard to say, "No cameras. Don't get in my face. I don't care who you are...Don't get in my face, and don't talk back to me, all right."
Methinks the Big Unit has a few things to learn about life in the Big City...
posted to Baseball at 5:20 PM CDT
Video here, though it seems to be an IE-only plugin.
See what happens when you join the Empire? He should have hooked on with the Mets, where all the stable personalities hang out.
posted at 6:51 PM CDT on January 10
posted at 7:02 PM CDT on January 10
Pedro looks headed to the Mets. It sounds like it isn't inked yet, but that's the intention. Only detail is that it's four years while Boston only went for three.
posted to Baseball at 7:02 PM CDT
And now Shaughnessy piles it on. Is a player who's not greedy making $12 million a year suddenly greedy for making $15 million a year?
posted at 9:28 AM CDT on December 14
Report: Bonds Admitted to Using Substances SAN FRANCISCO - Baseball star Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday. The Giants' slugger told the federal grand jury last year that Greg Anderson, his personal trainer, told him the substances he used in 2003 were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by the Chronicle. The substances Bonds described were similar to ones known as "the clear" and "the cream," two steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, the lab at the center of the steroid scandal.
posted to Baseball at 8:18 AM CDT
With the steroid scandal raging, it's a great time to go a-prostitute solicitin'. Under the radar, Denny Neagle, is where you shall stay!
posted at 9:07 AM CDT on December 4
Giambi admits steroid use. No way!
posted to Baseball at 2:09 AM CDT
I'm shocked.
posted at 5:42 AM CDT on December 2
Ladies and gentlemen meet your 2005 Washington Senators Nationals.
posted to Baseball at 1:28 PM CDT
If I'm not mistaken, it looks like the Nats will wear the old Senators caps with the scripted "W". That's a solace, but I would have liked to see them keep the name. I hope that they will at least retire Walter Johnson's and Harmon Killebrew's jerseys alongside those of Gary Carter and Tim Raines and any other Expos that have been honored over the years.
posted at 1:47 PM CDT on November 22
billsaysthis - huh?
posted at 2:31 PM CDT on November 22
"Could you suck up to the administration any more?"
It's a script W - I think that makes it a bit too homosexual for the current administration.
posted at 12:01 AM CDT on November 23
Actually terrapin, I thought it would have exactly the opposite effect - putting DC disenfranchisement into the public spotlight when sportscasters and newsmedia comment on how "ironic" it is that the DC team is called the Senators when DC doesn't have any senators.
posted at 10:15 AM CDT on November 23
World Series Game 4 Red Sox are leading the series, 3-0.
posted to Baseball at 6:38 PM CDT
posted at 10:57 PM CDT on October 27
Curt response Answering e-mail from the Sox nation, soft-spoken wallflower Curt Schilling talks about shutting up 55,000 Yankees fans, being called a "media whore," and dealing with some bad people in the press. "I am who I am," he says.
posted to Baseball at 4:11 PM CDT
The bad ankle exempts him from the draft, see?
posted at 6:11 PM CDT on October 28
Is anyone else sick of Curt Schilling? Tom Boswell is, in a passive-aggressive sort of way: "A nasty injury, gruesome enough to make for good melodrama, but medically insignificant enough to allow him to throw a baseball 92 mph... Pedro Martinez...has felt a bit slighted by Schilling's large, sometimes self-serving persona... Yankees Manager Joe Torre made it clear that he thought Schilling, consummate tough professional that he is, was not doing significantly more by pitching through the inconvenience of an ankle injury than many other players have done in postseason baseball, where countless players take the field held together by tape and a high pain threshold." An interesting perspective from outside the Nation.
posted to Baseball at 7:22 AM CDT
Yankee fans would root for the Mets if they were in the series.
Hell no. Did they root in '86? As I recall, Steinbrenner threw a hissy fit that the local media was biased toward the Mets.
I'm a Mets fan who hates the Yankees. If anything, I understand 1986 because I had a vested interest in the outcome. Red Sox Nation and the Shea bums are brothers in arms this year. Nothing would make me happier than to see the Sox pull this off.
Don't forget also the way the Cardinals handed our asses to us on a plate in '85 and '87. (Though we showed them a little something in 2000, thanks to the Rick Ankiel Incident.)
posted at 5:18 PM CDT on October 25
Speaking of "mystique," Schilling will be dead of mouth cancer in less than 10 years. All that effort to win the World Series and committing slow suicide in the process.
posted at 9:51 PM CDT on October 25
There's no real policy on "records." It's a nasty slippery slope; if you take away Bonds's records for steroids, you have to take away Gaylord Perry's for throwing spitballs, and Ty Cobb's for being a racist asshole.