DIE BASEBALL, DIE.

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There Are No Senators In Baseball. I Mean, Not Those Senators.
Published 12/14/2007 by SMQ <info@sundaymorningqb.com> at Sunday Morning Quarterback: Front Page Posts
... . And, to an extent, Orson Swindle. These are men throwing a ball and hitting a ball with a stick, and it was thrown and hit at as popular and profitable level as it's ever been thrown or hit in the "tainted" era in question, when apparently everyone who was anyone was doing it, anyway - sounds like a "level playing field" to me. What would hardcore racists like Ty Cobb and philandering alcoholics like Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle and unrepentant sociopaths like Ted Williams and those wife-swapping pitchers from the Yankees think of the integrity of their pristine game? Wow, Andy ...

Mitchell Report Blogdome [The Day After]
Published 12/14/2007 by Rick at Deadspin
... in traffic. OMG, people are suddenly just so much bigger now in like a year! If this shocked anyone after years of stats and norms being established with interminable death-march 162 game seasons...we mean, it would have marked a spurt not just in baseball's evolution, but humanity's. Sammy Sosa should have had Waterworld gills. Mark McGwire should have been telekinetic, and Albert Pujols should have had the ability to levitate (over the border! To Mexico! For illegal steroids!). [Every Day Should Be Saturday] ...

Help! George Mitchell Stole My Winstrol And All I Got Was This T-Shirt.
Published 12/14/2007 by MaconDawg <info@dawgsports.com> at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
... So, before you go off to contemplate the fact that your boyhood heroes were in fact 'roid raging, HGH-inflated scofflaws playing an overcommercialized game of cricket solely for George Plimpton's enjoyment, how about some football? ...

Weekend Fun: No more George, no more
Published 12/14/2007 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... A final thought: I empathize with Orson Swindle’s thoughts on baseball. For a while in my youth, I felt the exact same way (though I didn’t trace any similarity to Jean Baudrillard in those beliefs). Still, for baseball fans, this is part and parcel in enjoying the sport. The flaws, the idiocy, the very knowledge that many of the games are just as good for their action as they are for their soft mid-afternoon nap encouragement and, yes, the steroids … all are things a baseball fan accepts and deals with knowingly. It’s a pact we make, one ...

In defense of baseball
Published 12/17/2007 by cocknfire <info@garnetandblackattack.com> at Garnet And Black Attack: Front Page Posts
... agent, only 49 percent of the players were using anabolic steroids at the height of the Steroid Era. There could be more taking only HGH, I suppose, but most of the players who have allegedly used HGH have also been linked to steroids. But the most vitriolic and ranting screed against baseball, at least that I've seen, came from Orson at Every Day Should Be Saturday -- a bit surprising, since most of the posts at EDSBS are intelligent and insightful. Not so with this one. To see why, follow the jump... However, it may ...

You Know How I Know You're Lame?
Published 5/26/2008 by Texas Gal at Center Field
... called "8 Reasons Baseball is Lame and Boring". Which is basically a complete ripoff of this article, except without the creativity and skill and humor. So, basically, just a poorly written unoriginal boring ripoff. I would spend the time tearing the "article" apart, but why do that when the Fire Joe Morgan guys have ...