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The Dugout: St. Louis Cardinals Spring Training 2010
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsThe Dugout's look at the NL Central continues tonight with the Spring training report for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals Spring Training Dugout is never that good because writing about the Cardinals is like writing about a loaf of bread. At least the Astros will occasionally give you a secretly-elderly guy or Craig Biggio getting hit in the legs with a baseball. The Cardinals give you Albert Pujols, Ozzie Smith backflipping, and this giant cheating crybaby loser. I couldn't figure out a way to work in Ozzie Smith backflipping, but count your blessings, at least this year isn't about ...
A-Rod's 500th Home Run Ball Sells for Over $100K
By Anthony Olivieri - AOL NewsAlex Rodriguez's 500th home run ball sold for $103,579 to an anonymous bidder after an online auction ended Thursday night. It was a modest sum considering that, according to the New York Daily News, Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th career home run ball was sold for $752,467 in 2007. Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball, which set a new single-season record in 1998, sold for $3 million -- the highest price ever for a milestone baseball. The Daily News pointed out that the memorabilia produced by McGwire fetched such an exorbitant sum because it hit the market before the widespread use of ...
The Dugout: Fisk of Legend
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsHall of Famer Carlton Fisk spoke out this week against Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, the current generation of steroid-enhanced baseball players, and young people in general. Fisk's ability to make a reasoned, educated point while still managing to sound like a complete condescending d-bag puts him right at home with today's post-print media writers. I haven't read the entire interview, but I'm going to guess that near the end he calls McGwire "overrated" and refers to the slugger's 583 home runs as "underwhelming" and "fundamentally broken."Today's Dugout follows. And if you don't like it? ...
Haterade Power Rankings: Because We Dislike Things
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsIt's the Haterade Power Rankings. Drink up, suckers. If you missed the recent Airing of the Grievances at FanHouse, you missed out on some good goshdarn cathartic fun. So much fun, in fact, that we've been ordered by our bosses asked politely to crank out all our cynicism in a weekly post that ranks stuff we hate the most from the previous seven days. (And, sure, it would be a lot funnier if we could cuss, but whatever.) Got anything you hate? Leave it in the comments or complain to management that we don't have an e-mail available because we don't like to be pestered by annoying Cowboys ...
The Dugout: Albert Pujols Testifies Before Senate Committee
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsAs it turns out, Jose Canseco was right. Everybody who has ever played baseball is or was on steroids. Yep, your hero was on steroids too. So was mine. I'm sure Cal Ripken Jr. made it to some of those consecutive games by shooting something into his butt cheek and Hulking Up. It isn't great, but it's par for the course at this point, and as the announcements become more and more frequent we just have to start being grownups on the Internet about it. That being said, I don't think that Albert Pujols is on steroids. I also think that he's really as old as he says he is, and that if I wish hard ...
Daily Show, Colbert Report Destroy Mark McGwire
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsThe Daily Show and the Colbert Report are never places where things like "forgiveness" and "sanctity" are revered. Or something. The point: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert don't seem to care whether Mark McGwire's recent admission of steroid abuse is groundbreaking because they're too busy destroying him. And it's a good thing too -- when we see sports reporters discussing the McGwire issue, too often the history of baseball becomes an issue, whereas the important thing to remember is that everyone needs to shut their pie holes about McGwire (because he's incredibly played out at this point) ...
The Dugout: McGwire and LaRussa Play Scrabble
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsIn case you haven't heard the big baseball news, Metallica frontman James Hetfield had an hour-long conversation with Bob Costas in which he admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. He also admitted that "Reload" was a really awful album. But seriously, Mark McGwire waited until a month after Christmas to talk about the present. It's the most shocking development since Sammy Sosa admitted to using performance enhancing drugs, Alex Rodriguez admitted to using them, and Jose Canseco suddenly started floating in yoga position and ascending to the stars. Today's Dugout is about Scrabble. ...
Both Sides Serving Own Interests in Media-McGwire Dance
By M. Kent - AOL NewsThere's a very real possibility that Mark McGwire may have said all he is going to say about his steroid usage in one fell swoop Monday, and you can hardly blame him. If the immediate reaction of baseball reporters and analysts is any gauge, the last thing McGwire would want to do is spend time this season in his new role as St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach fending off the angry barbs of the press. In the hours since McGwire, who released a statement mid-afternoon, talked to a few reporters, then sat down for a live, engrossing interview with Bob Costas on MLB Network and came forward to ...
Mark McGwire Admits Using Steroids
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 11) -- Far from election to the Hall of Fame in four chances and about to re-enter baseball after a long absence, Mark McGwire on Monday admitted to using steroids. ...
The Dugout: Return Of the Mac
By B. Thompson Stroud - AOL NewsWhoever was just hired as the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, raise your hand. All right, you in the suit. Tell us how you got the job. What? You don't want to talk about it? Hey that seems pretty weird! Yes, 2010 will see the return of shadowy figure Mark McGwire to Major League Baseball. He should use his influence to get the Cards to sign Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds to coaching deals as well, and everyone in St. Louis can root for a ball club instructed by the Monstars. Today's Dugout is after the jump. The Dugout **Online Host** Welcome to the St. ...
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