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To Those Of You Who Have Asked...
24 September 08 09:34 PM | scoutmom | 3 comment(s)
...is it next year yet, I have just one thing to say:
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Spring Has Sprung
13 May 08 07:48 AM | scoutmom | 1 comment(s)
It's May; the second month in the Major League Baseball season. But something is seriously amiss here, folks. Let's see, what could be the problem. Mid-May and still dealing with frost warnings? Check. Daily temps still lucky to make it to 50 degrees? Check. Mutant squirrels devastating every last tulip that pokes its head out of the ground? Check. Front lawn a lovely shade of crabgrass green? Check. What could possibly be wrong then? Oh, you mean the Cubs seem to have figured out how to play baseball before it's too late? Gasp! It's the end of the world as we know it! Actually, it's about freaking time! I mean it's only been what, one HUNDRED years since they won the World Series? Now, now, don't panic. After all, just because they seem to have it all together does not mean it won't fall apart down the road. I mean, after all, there's a lovely opportunity for a June swoon or to die in July or even for the August bust (trust me, I've heard them all...
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Mitchell Report Names Names - Including Roger Clemens
14 December 07 08:02 AM | scoutmom | with no comments
The long awaited, much-speculated on Mitchell Report - all 409 pages of it - has finally been released. And, as promised, it names names. And some of them are pretty big. In fact, there is at least one All Star from every position in baseball. One of the biggest newly released? Roger "The Rocket" Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner. In nearly nine pages of information, Clemens was singled out. Much of that information came from former New York Yankees major league strength and conditioning coach Brian McNamee. Now, granted, not everyone one of the guys named used steroids. No, some were a bit more clever and they are alleged to have used HGH - human growth hormone. While steroids are detectable in a urine test, HGH requires a blood test. And while some of the more than 80 players named were listed as users, others were buyers. As for Clemens, "according to McNamee, from the time that McNamee injected Clemens with Winstrol through the end of the 1998 season, Clemens'...
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Barry Bonds Speaks - Does Anybody Care?
02 November 07 09:49 AM | scoutmom | 2 comment(s)
Oh boo hoo, cry me a river, Barry! Barry Bonds, the poster child for steroid use - oh, wait, alleged steroid use - has announced he's going to boycott the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown if they display the "asterisk" ball. In a major assumption, he includes his potential induction into the Hall of Fame. "I won't go. I won't be part of it," Bonds said in an interview with MSNBC on Thursday night. "You can call me, but I won't be there." Like anybody REALLY cares you big loser! After fan voting on a Web site set up by the ball's purchaser, fashion designer Marc Ecko, was tallied the decision was to send the ball to Cooperstown branded with an asterisk. Bonds of course denied knowingly using performance enhancing drugs and called Ecko "an idiot." How does Dale Petroskey, Hall of Fame president feel about it? "It's a historic piece of baseball history" and that the museum would be "delighted" to have...
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A Little Bit of a Bunch of Stuff
29 October 07 06:25 PM | scoutmom | 2 comment(s)
You got your Red Sox, your Yankees, your football...and more
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Sports
27 September 07 07:24 AM | scoutmom | 2 comment(s)
First you have to wade through the "bad" and the "ugly", but hang with it. The good at the end makes it all worthwhile. 1. Michael Vick is an idiot. 2. Barry Bonds steroid use (oh, sorry, "alleged" steroid use) has turned him into the "Biggest Loser". 3. The New York Mets are pulling a '69 Cubs. Go Phillies! 4. Somebody has finally knocked some sense into Lovie Smith. (However Rex STILL doesn't get it.) 5. Did I already say "Michael Vick is an idiot? Well he's twice the idiot now with the whole marijuana thing. 6. It is not possible for there to be a worse division than the NL Central - the first place team loses and still has their magic number drop (Go Cubs) and the second place team loses, then claims "We're in a situation where we no longer control our own destiny." Huh? 7. Major League umpire Mike Winters is a total putz! 8. Milton Bradley (the player, not the board game manufacturer) has learned an important lesson...
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