The Vig

The free preview of the MLB Extra Innings package has come to an end, and now I’m completely Jonesing for it.  But I just can’t justify the $159 or whatever it is.  I mean sure, Comcast will break it into three easy payments, but that’s not the point.  I won’t be home to watch any [...]

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Baseball’s opening day is upon us. The big leagues have been at it since Sunday night. Well, last week if you count the trip the Red Sox and A’s made to Japan last week. But that’s a separate issue.
Locally, things get going tonight with the Beavers. What better way to start [...]

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From this morning’s O.
“Baseball,” says Chris Metz, a Beavers spokesman, “is about nostalgia.”
Sure it is, Chris. That’s why Thirsty Thursday is your biggest draw.
Seriously though, I love baseball and its history as much as the next guy, and I’m planning to spend a lot of time at PGE Park this summer. But this [...]

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Nice little interview with baseball author and columnist Rob Neyer in this morning’s Trib. His observation about the “end” of the steroid era is dead-on, I think.
I don’t know that the steroid era has ended yet. I’m not willing to call it something because it’s not over. No question (drugs are being used), I’d [...]

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Blazers: Did I mention I picked up a ticket package a few weeks back? I gave a few of the seats away for Christmas and will no doubt be giving a few more out as things come up down the line. 20 games for $100 is a helluva deal. Yesterday’s game [...]

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Ken Rosenthal asks an interesting question.  Did Red Sox fan Director George Mitchell leak the Paul Byrd HGH story prior to Game 7?  Mitchell says no.  Will Leitch also points out Mitchell claims he’d never heard about Byrd’s HGH use prior to the story coming to light.  Which is weird because Mitchell is the guy [...]

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The guys on Sports Business Radio last night blasted Bud Selig for putting the baseball playoffs on TBS rather than ESPN or another better known network.  They suggested the move is a continuation of baseball’s current strategy of spinning every last piece of available straw into gold no matter the consequence.  They also stated TBS [...]

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Working the second shift means I get to listen to a lot of sports on radio now instead of on TV.  I’ve thought about getting XM to keep me company, especially during baseball season, but so far I’ve resisted the urge.  Once the whole merger deal gets settled, I may take another look at it.
In [...]

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A lot was being made yesterday about Rudy’s time, or lack thereof, at Ground Zero. Just as Kerry made his Vietnam service the centerpiece of his campaign, so to has Rudy made 9/11 his campaign calling card. It’s been absolutely sickening to watch. The events of September 11th, 2001 have been exploited [...]

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Back in the late-80s, I was all about the baseball cards.  It wasn’t so much that I loved collecting them, it was that I loved watching them appreciate.  It was like playing the dot-com bubble as a 17-year-old.  Among my prized possessions were every variation of the infamous 1988 Fleer Bill Ripken “Fuck Face” card, the [...]

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