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Alex Rodriguez: Justice for A-Rod and His Baseball »
It is no secret that Alex Rodriguez admitted to using performance enhancing drugs while with the Texas Rangers. After he was outed by Sports Illustrated's Selena Roberts, he confessed. I am one of the few people that believe that steroids do not help you center a baseball and hit home runs, but what it does do is help your recovery time and give [...]
Only Alex: The Glamourus Path To 600 »
There is that third basemen for the New York Yankees who has a strange way of doing things. Alex Rodriguez is sitting at 599 home runs on his career. A-Rod will only be the seventh player in history to enter the realm of 600 or more career home runs. On top of that, he will become the youngest to hit 600 home runs, at the age of 34. On [...]
Conflict of Interest: Cliff Lee To Pitch Against The »
Anything that doesn't involve LeBron James in sports talk right now has my attention and the Cliff Lee rumors are at the top of that list. Though it isn't the magnitude of the 1919 World Series, we have a very odd situation brewing in Seattle tonight, and it isn't their coffee. Cliff Lee is rumored to be headed to the Bronx for Yankees prospect [...]
Yankees Hope To Dig the Red Sox a Bigger Hole With a »
After last night's thrilling comeback victory by the New York Yankees (25-13), CC Sabathia (4-2, 3.71 ERA) looks to finish off the Boston Red Sox (19-20) for the time being. Going into Tuesday night, the Red Sox are already eight-and-a-half games out of first place in the American League East. However, the Yankees aren't actually the leader of the [...]
Marcus Thames Becomes a Yankee: 14 Years in the Making »
In the 30th round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft, the New York Yankees selected Marcus Thames from Louisville, Mississippi. Six years after that, in June of 2002, Thames homered on the first pitch he ever saw. Who threw it? Just this guy named Randy Johnson. No big deal, right? Thames was traded to the Texas Rangers [...]