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Spring Dugz: Houston Astros

You mess with the fat old bull you get the fat old horns!Today the Dugout continues its Spring Training tradition and its center-of-the-Earth-like journey through the NL Central with the Houston Astros, a team so into media coverage that you'd almost forget they play baseball. I like to think that Clemens is just a fan of...

Carlos Lee's Heart Is With Cows

You know what would make me nervous? If I was the fan of a baseball team that had just spent $100 million on an outfielder that probably wasn't worth anywhere close to that kind of cash and then someone said something like this about him: "He's a cattleman; he's a calf roper; he's a horseman," said Skip Wagner, president...

Clemens to Cards: Buzz Off

Apparently the Cardinals "1 million to 1" shot at signing Roger Clemens is significantly less than that. After the Cards told agent Randy Hendricks they were interested in signing the Rocket, the response was less than glowing. "Let me repeat," Randy Hendricks said. "Houston, Boston, New York. Only three teams will be...

Roger Clemens - 200 Times More Likely to Come Back Than MJ Was

Roger Clemens told a Houston TV station on Tuesday that the chances of him staying home vs. playing again were about "80-20" right now. Of course no one really holds great athletes to that kind of statement these days. Everyone remembers Michael Jordan's "99.9%" retirement speech and Mario Lemieux's retirement from the...