Baseball is a hard game. They say that hitting a pitched ball may be the hardest thing to do in sports. Fielding a hit ball can’t be a piece of cake either. Major League Baseball players have reached the pinnacle of this difficult sport, and they often make it look easy. On occasion, though, outside influences conspire to make it even more difficult for them. Consider the Marlins game against the Dodgers in Miami yesterday. The geniuses who run the Florida franchise decided to give away thousands of silver pompoms to the fans who came to the game. The pompoms promptly came apart, and most of the silvery strands found their way into the playing field. [Read more →]

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The big news of the week was Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. The drug he was reportedly taking was HCG, which is a female fertility drug. Yes, you read that correctly. [Read more →]

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This week, hearings started in Congress about the need for a college football playoff. The threat is that the BCS will not be able to refer to their championship game as a “national championship” if a playoff is not involved. Now, from my review of online commentary and conversation with other college football fans, I would say that although it is very clear that a playoff is greatly preferred as the way to determine a champion, there is a faction out there that thinks that the government should spend its time on the economic issues facing the country, rather than worry about how a game picks its ultimate winner. Personally, I am thrilled at the government’s involvement. [Read more →]

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