By Elizabeth Finn
They were supposed to have saved baseball. After stadiums had gone silent and box scores disappeared from the morning paper, fans were looking for something–anything–to revive their beloved game. Equal parts skeptical and starving, they were willing to embrace the first sign that baseball had not, in fact, betrayed them long before the [...]
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By Thom Henninger
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen isn’t one to hold back if something’s on his mind. A thought only needs to pass through his mind to make its way into print, as he often fires away without thinking through a subject first.
By Bill Begley
“Big Papi” becomes a “Big Flopi” and one of the first things that come to mind is, “Well, there’s another overpaid baseball player deflated by the crackdown on performance-enhancing drugs.”
Fair? Probably not.
Wrong to consider that possibility? Not even a little bit.
If fans — or even those negative [...]
By Bill Begley
Knowing the rules in baseball is important.
Ask Manny Ramirez.
Or, if you want the straight poop and not some innocuous excuse, ask Joe Maddon.
Maddon, Tampa Bay’s manager, made an honest mistake while filling out his lineup card Sunday, and so the Rays took on the Indians without a DH. Maddon’s starting pitcher, Andy Sonnanstine, [...]
