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The Dugout: Cincinnati Reds Spring Training 2011
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsJonny Gomes of the Cincinnati Reds reportedly celebrated the news of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright's potentially season-ending elbow injury by wandering around the clubhouse singing an original song about how happy he was for Wainwright's misfortune. Later he denied the story, saying he was "singing a song from the Karate Kid," which I can only hope was "Never Say Never" by Justin Bieber featuring Jaden Smith. The best part of the story is that it gives me something to write about for the Reds (because seriously, they're just the exact same boring team as last year), and it lets ...
Braves' Tim Hudson Adds to Big Offseason With Hutch Award
By John Hickey - AOL NewsStatistics make it easy to judge the player who's had the best season. Judging which player has had the best offseason can be tougher, but this winter there can't be many players who have had a better time of it than Atlanta starting pitcher Tim Hudson. Hudson was in Seattle Wednesday to accept the 46th Hutch Award, which goes annually to a Major League Baseball player who best exemplifies the honor, courage and dedication of former pitcher and manager Fred Hutchinson, a Seattle native who died of cancer at 45 in 1964. It's the second major award for Hudson, who was awarded the National ...
Ted Forstmann Is Pete Rose of Tennis
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsThe pattern is repeating. An insider in the sports world bets heavily, excessively, dangerously on the game, and after it comes out, he downplays it, then justifies, then says he doesn't do it anymore. And the whole way, the credibility of sport is jeopardized. "If you go back and look at the history of Pete Rose, he started by saying he's not gambling, he never gambled,'' said Arnie Wexler, a leading expert on excessive and compulsive gambling. "Compulsive gamblers are great liars.'' The thing is, I wasn't asking him about Pete Rose. The topic was Ted Forstmann, the CEO of IMG, and one of ...
As 90 Nears, Stan Musial Forever Worthy of Celebration
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsEven though Stan Musial turns 90 on Sunday, he already has one of his biggest birthday presents: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was gift-wrapped by the White House this week for the former St. Louis Cardinals slugger. In fact, he will be honored with others early next year by Barack Obama "for (his) especially meritorious contribution" in society as a sports icon and beyond. That's nice. But is Musial worthy of a bigger gift? I mean, baseball tagged Joe DiMaggio as The Greatest Living Player from 1969 until his death 11 years ago, so is Musial now that guy? Nope. It's Hank ...
Pete Rose: I Finally Get It
By Josh Alper - AOL NewsWhen Major League Baseball allowed Pete Rose onto the field for a Sept. 11 ceremony honoring the 25th anniversary of the day he became baseball's all-time hit king, it seemed to signal a crack in the wall baseball has put up to keep Rose out. Rose seemed to realize that as well. He gave a tearful speech at a roast filled with former teammates after the ceremony and apologized to them for disrespecting the game of baseball by gambling on it during his career. During an interview with The Associated Press, he made an even bigger attempt to let people know that he's ready to take responsibility ...
The Dugout: Pete Rose Stole Onion Rings, Lied About It
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsOn September 11th, a day we're supposed to not forget about stuff, the Cincinnati Reds honored Pete Rose with a trophy to commemorate his 4,192nd hit over 25 years ago. Rose cried, admitted that he'd done baseball a disservice, and now there's talk all over the blogosphere about how he should get into the Hall of Fame. I love Pete Rose. I love how he seemingly played harder than anyone else in baseball history. I love him getting into your base and killing your dudes in an all-star game. I'd put him on any list of greatest players to play the game. I would not, however, let him into the ...
Pete Rose Just Cried His Way Into Baseball Hall of Fame
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsConfessions never are too late. So, after 47 years, whoever really shot JFK still can step forward. Plus, what a teary-eyed Pete Rose said inside a packed ballroom over the weekend at a southern Indiana casino was the verbal line drive he needed for a plaque in Cooperstown. Rose will make the Baseball Hall of Fame. Just watch. It'll happen sooner than later, because the Veterans Committee will do what those of us who vote every year for Hall of Famers as members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America couldn't do. We couldn't vote for Rose (you know, even if we wanted to), because ...
Reds Honor Pete Rose 25 Years After His Record 4,192nd Hit
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsCINCINNATI (AP) -- Pete Rose stood on first base and tipped his cap to the screaming crowd -- a little bit like 25 years ago. The banished hits king made a rare on-field appearance Saturday while the Reds commemorated the 25th anniversary of his record-setting hit No. 4,192 at Cinergy Field. Wearing a No. 14 Rose jersey, he was driven onto the field at Great American Ball Park, walked over to first base and stomped on it with his booted right foot while a less-than-capacity crowd stood and cheered. Rose broke Ty Cobb's hits record with his single off San Diego's Eric Show on Sept. 11, ...
The Scary Thing Is, Roger Clemens Believes Roger Clemens
By Terence Moore - AOL NewsHere is Roger Clemens, the greatest pitcher of his generation, fresh from getting fingerprinted and taking a mug shot on Monday at his arraignment at a federal courthouse in Washington D.C., and there isn't a doubt that he is a Hall of Famer ... When it comes to lying. Clearly and dramatically, the guy told a slew of whoppers two years ago when he swore before a bunch of U.S. congressmen on Capitol Hill that he never used performance-enhancing drugs. He did so with the grace of one of those old Soviet Union thugs. This was before, during and after he spent time hurling folks under ...
The Dugout: Pete Rose's Terrible Life
By Brandon Stroud - AOL NewsTo this generation he has become a symbol for how George Michael and Maeby got to second base, but before that he was Pete Rose, a Hall of Famer by every possible definition of the word. Between that, he got banned from baseball for betting on it and became an old codger desperately trying to get back in the sport's good graces and charge about a billion dollars for his autograph. Somewhere in the middle-to-end of that, we started making jokes about him in The Dugout. Now that ex-commissioner Fay Vincent has decided to carry the Anti-Rose torch in the face of rose-tinted sentiment, we can ...
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