Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports writes an interesting piece about performance enhancing drugs, and the start-of-the-art treatment that Alex Rodriguez underwent in Germany recently to help aid his arthritic knee.  In the piece, he asks what is the difference between this “treatment” and taking a steroid, which also has healing properties.
He asked Gary Wadler of [...]

I went to the 161st game of the Mets last night as they hosted the Cincinnati Reds. Even with both teams firmly out of any kind of race, it was wonderful to be able to go to the ballpark with my family and see one last game of this season. It has [...]

On this day in 1986, San Francisco Giants left-hander (but Phillies great) Steve Carlton recorded his 4,000th career strikeout, at the time, becoming only the second pitcher in baseball history to reach that milestone. Carlton has too many great accomplishments to list in one paragraph, so I’ll just pick some of the more interesting and [...]

Founded by Barry Zito in April 2005, the Strikeouts For Troops roster is home to some of the biggest names in baseball. These players have pledged money to Strikeouts For Troops to help injured American soldiers and their families.  Since its inception, Strikeouts For Troops has raised nearly 2 million dollars through contributions made by [...]

Dallas Braden, the pitcher none of us average folks had heard of when Alex Rodriguez took a short cut over his mound a couple of weeks ago, will now go down in baseball history.  He may only have a few wins under his belt, but now he will sit in the record books as long [...]