Richard Justice is up on his high-horse again, this time in defense of himself, his colleagues, and Jeff Bagwell. The subject, surprisingly, is steroids. And Justice is pissed that there are people out there who happen to believe that he might have known what was going on during the late-`80s, `90s and early-`00s, and that he instead chose to cover it up."We looked the other way while players injected themselves, got big and made the game more popular than it had ever been before," he writes. "T
Roger Clemens is no longer the only former professional baseball player under investigation for lying to Congress. With the Tuesday revelation that Sammy Sosa was one of the 104 MLB players to test positive for PED use in 2003 (along with Alex Rodriguez) comes the word that a congressional committee is looking into whether Sosa lied to Congress when he testified in 2005 that he had never used a PED. And this brings about a good time to check in on Clemens, about who there has been relatively lit
Via the blog The Big Lead (linking to the blog Rotoinfo) comes the most eagerly sought list of names in years. That's right, this is the supposed list of the 104 MLB players who failed the 2003 steroids/HGH drug testing. The Big Lead breaks down the list and provides a couple of reasons for why this list is not the actual list, including the exclusion of Jason Grimsley's name, which is kind of a killer to the list because Grimsley has admitted to being one of the 104 players to fail th
I stumbled upon this Jose de Jesus Ortiz blog post on Sunday morning while I was in the process of trying to digest Saturday night's 13-2 Astros loss to the Washington Nationals. I puzzled over it during the day, but could never really make much sense of it. But then Deadspin got a hold of the thing, and now it seems that Ortiz' moralizing has gone national.To save you the time, I'll summarize. Ortiz is outraged that, after what happened to Steve McNair, married ballplayers are still hitting on
