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Jose Canseco: RIGHT again. ESPN talking heads: wrong again. Bud Selig: egg on his face again. Me: Doing the schadenfreude happydance again. Manny Being Just Like Everyone Else Well, Well, Well.

Not shocking at all, really. Shocking, perhaps, only to the head-in-the-sand sportswriters and sports talk hosts who were all so quick to make the Personally Unpopular Barry Bonds the scapegoat for the steroid era. Shocking, perhaps, to the people who thought that Jose Canseco couldn't be...

So in other words, Jose Canseco was absolutely right, once again. And Mr. Rodriquez ISN'T going to be the Great White Clean Hope that "saves" us from big bad Jerk Barry Bonds who we unfairly singled out and scapegoated because of his personality, after all.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/07/alex-rodriguez-steroids/index.html?eref=T1 WELL, WELL, WELL... What do we have here?

Playing his entire career locally, and poorly. He's like the Equal And Opposite Reaction to Hall of Famer Bob St. Clair (St. Clair has the unique distinction of of playing his entire football career -- i.e. high school, college, and professional -- entirely in one city.)

The sad/funny part is, it was a three-and-out, too. Which means he false started once for EVERY SINGLE PLAY. He's an offensive lineman so bad he needs his own drinking game. Between the 49ers and the Raiders, I've seen about six seasons worth of Kwame Harris. Which is seven too many.

Emmitt Smith had a much better offensive line in front of him, every single year of his career. (well okay not that year at the end when he went to the Cardinals, but you know what I mean...) That being said, Emmitt was a way better blocker when he had to stay in on pass protection during a...

Colts over Chargers Ravens over Dolphins (the Dolphins have grown on me as a sympathetic favorite, due to the resurrection of Pennington, the LOL at Jason Taylor and Zach Thomas abandoning them to play for "contenders" who didn't make the playoffs, and their eliminating Brett Favre AND Bill...

The problem with what the Yankees spend in the offseason isn't "they can buy a championship." It's that $2500 per game ticket price for the premium seats -- for every game, even Get Away Wednesday Noon Game against the Kansas City Royals -- and all the way down the line. To cover the cost of...

Don't worry. I'm sure Al would love to sign him and put him on the Raider O-line next to Legendary Bust Robert Gallery and Kwame "Three False Starts In One Offensive Possession" Harris. Oh well, at least they're solid at Kicker and Punter... :sad:

You know, star on his helmet notwithstanding, I almost feel kinda bad for Tony Romo. Brett Favre on the other hand, I completely enjoy the ignominious end to his season without one shred of sympathy. So lovely that he's gotten the coach fired, and the quarterback he forced out of town is the...

The Jets' most successful seasons in recent history were with a healthy Chad Pennington at quarterback. He's gotten a bum rap as of late because of his health issues, and the scrutiny of the New York Media (tm), but he's a pretty good quarterback. "Arm Strength" is overrated in quarterbacks...

I completely agree with you. But sports team owners have proven time and time again that they do not feel the same way. Nothing is sacred in their circle. It's exactly the sort of move the NFL/the other owners SHOULD vote to block and bar. But would they?

Oh don't get me wrong, it would make me mad beyond words, it feels so sacrilegious. But every day of No Progress on a new stadium in Hunter's Point or Santa Clara county moves the team one day closer to shiny new digs in Orange County. 1) The Yorks are hated and reviled here, and always will...

Holliday's agent is Scott Boras. That should tell you all you need to know. Well, to be fair, Street was now expendable because he had been supplanted as closer by the new kid, Brad Ziegler, he of the New Record For Consecutive Scoreless Innings To Start A Career. Really, I think the...

Well, first of all, Kraft would either have to A) be a moron and sell the team, B) be a moron and consort with corrupt governors with gambling ties, thus the NFL forces him to sell the team (because even a hint of gambling ties is anathema to major American sports; nobody even wants the...

This is one of the many, many, odd, antiquated, and counter-logical quirks of the NFL Television Broadcasting rights and jurisdictions. Broadcast rights are carried by the Visiting team, rather than the home team. So when it's interconference, like Giants @ Steelers, whichever network would...

Screw ratings. Screw marketing. Bring on a World Series that only baseball purists and actual fans will want to watch. :D

Good riddance. Not that it'll really make a difference this season. I knew it'd only be a matter of time before Singletary got a head coaching gig; I was always resigned to the probability that he'd be leaving for greener pastures to get it. I'm glad he's getting this promotion over...

The NFL is a copycat league. I think some coaches are more afraid of the criticism they'd get for NOT icing a kicker who went on to make the kick, than of the criticism for icing backfiring, because at least this way they are following Conventional NFL Coaching Wisdom (tm). Shanahan actually...