ShysterBall

Shyster is hitting the road for a couple of days. California if you must know. There will be baseball -- I'll be catching the Padres a...

Remember those carefree days of early 2002 when we thought of Jose Canseco as mere beefcake instead of a whistle blower? When we were far m...

Bad couple weeks' press for Atlanta lawyers. First one goes out of his way to spread TB , and then one makes an ass out of himself and m...

Fernando Hernandez made his major league debut for the Detroit Tigers on April 3, 1997. Over the course of his career -- which lasted two d...

Their AAA first baseman is 35 year-old Robin Jennings , late of the Cubs, Twins, and Reds organizations, who had been out of baseball since ...

A link from Deadspin to a story about GWB throwing out the first pitch of the 2001 World Series reveals that no matter how nasty the GOP pr...

I don't care if A-Rod cheated on his wife (see below post about the personal lives and personalities of pro athletes). I do care, howeve...

The Chicago Sun-Times is stoking the fires of a Jermaine Dye for Bobby Abreu trade . That's well and good, I suppose. Both Dye and Abre...

There's a general consensus out there that Jeff Kent is a jerk. Indeed, SI recently ran some poll results showing that, after Bonds, Ke...

Don't lump me in with those guys who dismiss soccer out of hand. I've tried to get into soccer. I really have. I've been to sev...

How did Dennis Quaid never get tapped to star in Suddenly Last Summer: The Sam McDowell Story ?

From USA Today re: the Padres rotation: David Wells says the Padres follow the lead of Peavy , who is 7-1 with a 1.68 ERA. Wells says the P...

A-Rod hears the jeers : "I heard some, but it's always in good fun," he said after his solo shot through the rain off Jonathan...

I tend to be a classicist when it comes to baseball attire and cringe when I see old video of the baby blue/pajama pants/ doubleknit era. ...

And Thus Gary Sheffield Spake : "I called it years ago. What I called is that you're going to see more black faces, but there ain...

This story about the Cubs' closed-door meeting before Wednesday's game was the first time I can ever recall a reporter actually aski...

Scalpers are poised to rejoice in New York as the state is about to remove price caps for tickets sold on the secondary market . Not that th...

I wanted to kill Ted Turner the first time I saw a greenish-skinned Bogart placing the letters of transit in Sam's piano. Though the fad...

The Columbia Blowfish of the Coastal Plain League (amateurs! No, really ), have announced a stunning new addition to their lineup : It’s ca...

The NCAA field of 64 has been announced, and there is good news for Ohio State fans like me: No Florida Gators.