M’s Need to Grow a Pair of Balls & Discipline Griffey for ‘Sleep-Gate’

The Seattle Mariners need to stop the bleeding. They expected to contend this season but find themselves in the basement of the American League West, not exactly a loaded division. They brought back Ken Griffey, Jr. for his swan song campaign and had visions of a feel-good story all summer long, but that move is [...]

Raul Ibanez Steroid Talk A Lot of Bull

I bet that you have never heard of a blog entitled Midwest Sports Fans or ‘JRod,’ the guy who started this whole Raul Ibanez/performance-enhancing-drug controversy. What the blogger insinuated was that due to the 37-year-old outfielder’s fast start (which includes 19 home runs through the Phillies’ first 55 games) he may be using PEDs. Why [...]

Bob Alejo Back with Oakland A’s; Jason Giambi Next?

Will Grunge Look and Muscles Also Make a Return? The Yankees declining Jason Giambi’s 2009 option came as no surprise, but the fact that he may end up back in Oakland can be viewed as a mild one. The slugging first baseman’s former guru with the Athletics and Yanks, Bob Alejo, has been brought back [...]

Gregg Valentino Interview to Appear in October New York Sportscene Magazine

The Ramblin’ Freak Speaks his Mind About Steroids in Sports The following article will appear in the October 2008 issue of New York Sportscene magazine. (www.nysportscene.com) At Arm’s Length Gregg Valentino Flexes his Opinion About Steroids The old saying “Don’t throw stones in a glass house,” doesn’t apply to Gregg Valentino. When he talks about [...]

Power Outage

SF Giants One Light-Hitting Bunch Without Bonds When the calendar shows that August is closing out in one week and your team leader in home runs has 12, it’s fair to say that small-ball is your style. In San Francisco, Aaron Rowand is the only player on the roster with a double-digit total in long [...]

Bonds Sitting Home is Nothing Other Than Collusion

Agent Calls it Like it is; Home Run King Offering to Play for Minimum As the second half of the baseball season is upon us, teams that are making playoff pushes start to separate themselves from the second-division clubs. The trading deadline is still two weeks away, and general managers across the league will be [...]

Josh Hamilton: Success Without Steroids

Baseball’s Feel-Good Story is Clean in More Ways Than One If there ever was a perfect ‘back from the dead’ story, it occurred last summer. An outfielder that was out of baseball and presumed finished lit up the sky with a miraculous comeback and breathed life into himself and his team. There was nothing that [...]

By George, the Numbers Don’t Add Up

Mitchell Report Sampling Can Go Either Way Perusing the telephone book commonly known as ‘The Mitchell Report,’ it is hard to say if the baseball players that allegedly used performance-enhancing drugs benefited or not. Going by the raw numbers, some did and some didn’t. Now keep in mind that the report included only the time [...]

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