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The Dugout: St. Louis Cardinals Spring Training 2010

The Dugout's look at the NL Central continues tonight with the Spring training report for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals Spring Training Dugout is never that good because writing about the Cardinals is like writing about a loaf of bread. At least the Astros will occasionally give you a secretly-elderly guy or Craig...

A-Rod's 500th Home Run Ball Sells for Over $100K

Alex Rodriguez's 500th home run ball sold for $103,579 to an anonymous bidder after an online auction ended Thursday night. It was a modest sum considering that, according to the New York Daily News, Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th career home run ball was sold for $752,467 in 2007. Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball,...

The Dugout: Fisk of Legend

Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk spoke out this week against Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, the current generation of steroid-enhanced baseball players, and young people in general. Fisk's ability to make a reasoned, educated point while still managing to sound like a complete condescending d-bag puts him right at home with...

Haterade Power Rankings: Because We Dislike Things

It's the Haterade Power Rankings. Drink up, suckers. If you missed the recent Airing of the Grievances at FanHouse, you missed out on some good goshdarn cathartic fun. So much fun, in fact, that we've been ordered by our bosses asked politely to crank out all our cynicism in a weekly post that ranks stuff we hate the...

The Dugout: Albert Pujols Testifies Before Senate Committee

As it turns out, Jose Canseco was right. Everybody who has ever played baseball is or was on steroids. Yep, your hero was on steroids too. So was mine. I'm sure Cal Ripken Jr. made it to some of those consecutive games by shooting something into his butt cheek and Hulking Up. It isn't great, but it's par for the course at...

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02/21/12 McGwire gets philosophical about his approach to... Source: St Louis Post-Dispatch - St Louis MO Former Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, for three years the single-season record holder for home runs at 70, helped the World Series champion Cardinals lead the National League in batting average and runs scored last season â his second as the club's hitting coach.
02/16/12 Here are some new Jeremy Lin comparisons: Mark... Source: The Seattle Times - Seattle WA Because it's mandated by federal law that every sports journalist wrote about Jeremy Lin (statute 22D-31), I wanted to make sure I am in compliance.
02/08/12 Baseball Hall to begin drug education program Source: The Oklahoman - Oklahoma City OK The Baseball Hall of Fame is starting a drug education program for students and young adults â in the same year Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa will appear on ballot for the first time after careers tainted by steroid accusations.
01/29/12 Sports Movies That Have to Be Made Source: Bleacher Report When a player's strike caused the 1994 season and part of the 1995 to be cancelled, it caused even the most hardcore fan to become alienated from the sport.