The Rocket Gets Smoked

My piece today at Baseball Prospectus covering Wednesday’s Congressional hearing will have a familiar ring to anyone who’s been following along in this space. While there’s plenty to debate about the propriety of such a dog and pony show in Congress, not to mention the credibility of the Mitchell Report and of Brian McNamee, I …

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I Forgot to Misremember to Forget About the Time You Injected My Wife

Once again, it was a very surreal scene to see baseball hauled in front of Congress for the purposes of posturing about steroids. From where I sat in the Fox News Radio Studio, where host Dave Anthony and I were joined via phone by Jim Bouton, it was a pretty bad day for Roger Clemens. …

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Mr. Clemens Goes to Washington

Those of you who drop by here for Yankees-related coverage — not that I’ve had much this winter — have probably noticed that I’ve had little to say on the Roger Clemens/Mitchell Report story in this forum. I haven’t been entirely silent on the issue, however. I was part of Fox News Radio’s in-studio anchored …

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Rocket Ride (Slight Return)

Roger Clemens was on my mind last week. Thanks to a John Perroto piece at Baseball Prospectus, incorporating him into the week’s Hit List was an inevitability, but I managed to have some fun with it: Despite the arrival of Hunter Pence, the Astros are decidedly earthbound after nine losses in 10 games, and at …

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