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Back on January 17th, I received an email
from the opinion editor of the New York Post
, asking me if I'd review Will Leitch's new book, God Save the Fan . Sure! I'd never written anything for, you know, money before, and I've certainly never been ...
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So I sat down yesterday and read the
entire Barry Bonds grand jury testimony (what, you think
I have a life?). First observation: I can't believe that BALCO lawyer Troy Ellerman went to all that trouble -- and now is in jail for over two ...
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Braves 14, Reds 7 : Mrs. Shyster came
into the living room yesterday afternoon and told me
that I had to fix the shelves in the garage. Her view: the screws holding the standards in the wall are hanging by a thread, and sooner or later 75 pounds of ...
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Who is really to blame when Pete Rose
starts dropping F-bombs in front of a bunch of
ten year-olds at a baseball camp and then tells them that losing is for suckers? Charlie Hustle, or the brain surgeons who hired him? "It was a complete ...
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ccalcaterra
posted 8/11/2007 from
shysterball.blogspot.com
Cal Ripken has been named as a U.S.
Special Envoy by President Bush. That's nothin'. When I'm
elected president, these guys will be in my baseball cabinet
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ccalcaterra
posted 8/22/2007 from
shysterball.blogspot.com
There are seventeen candidates for president. At some
point, all of them will claim to be huge
baseball fans in order to pander for votes. Which ones are true fans, and which ones are pretenders? Shysterball provides this handy guide to help you sniff out the baloney.
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ccalcaterra
posted 10/22/2007 from
shysterball.blogspot.com
How calls to eliminate the red-faced mascot of
the Cleveland Indians may have cost them the ALCS.
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Voros starts to rip into Shaugnessy , but
then has a lot more fun remembering Eric Davis:
If you only caught the tail end of his injury and illness played career, you wouldn ’t know it, but Eric Davis was far and away the most exciting baseball ...
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While searching for the Prince Fielder pic from
yesterday's post , I was struck by how much
better I like the Milwaukee throwbacks than I do the current uniforms. Not just because of the novelty, either. Throwbacks are almost always fun because ...
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MLB
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Yesterday we looked at the best historical fashion
choices by each team in the NL. Today it's
the junior circuit's turn. One change today, though. Based on the suggestion of some readers, I have decided to link to actual photos of actual players ...
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MLB
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Because they allegedly lied about it, the question
of whether Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds took HGH
will continue to have legal salience, b ut it's looking more and more irrelevant as it relates to their baseball legacy : Human growth hormone may ...
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After an inappropriately long limbo period, during which
and uncomfortable amount of loose talk and open speculation
took place, Willie Randolph was awkwardly fired in the middle of the night . Classic Mets! Willie Randolph is out as manager of the ...
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ccalcaterra
posted 7/4/2007 from
shysterball.blogspot.com
The NAACP wrings its hands over the declining
number of U.S.-born blacks in baseball. Not surprisingly, its
actions are nothing more than cynical grandstanding which ignore one key fact: baseball is the most racially and ethnically diverse sport around.
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gerardcosloy
posted 8/15/2007 from
shysterball.blogspot.com
A reasoned argument against Jeff Pearlman's insistence that
Barry Bonds isn't merely a big brooding jerk, but
that he's E-V-I-L.
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Anyone who has hung around ShysterBall for a
spell knows frequent-commenter Pete Toms and, if they have
a lick of sense, have bookmarked his blog, A Baseball Geek , which has been on my blogroll since almost day one. Pete's expertise lies in the ...
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Rambo should expect his Congressional subpoena and visit
from Mike Wallace soon: "HGH is nothing. Anyone who
calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed," Stallone says in the [ Time magazine] issue out tomorrow. "Testosterone to me is so important ...
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I was going to attempt to do some
sort of word-for-word analysis of An Analysis of the
Career of Roger Clemens (actual title), but Rocket's agents must be blogger-phobic because the document they released does not allow copying of text. Speaking ...
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The curly-W pretzles they'll be serving in the
new Washington Nationals' Stadium look something less-than-appetizing: We had
a black lab that used to leave stuff like that behind, but she at least had the decency not to cover it in kosher salt.
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ccalcaterra
posted 3/28/2008 from
shysterball.blogspot.com
Rob Neyer's new book officially comes out on
Tuesday. Read about it today.
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The Daily News is reporting -- in major
detail -- that Roger Clemens had a long term
affair with country singer Mindy McCready that began when she was [gulp] 15 years old: Roger Clemens carried on a decade-long affair with country star Mindy ...
A Much Delayed Review of God Save the Fan