The Starting Five

Check out Costas Now when you get a chance. Great show about the state of baseball is airing the next week or so. The best part of the show was the exchange between Hank, Willie and Bob Gibson. America needs to appreciate talent as it exists instead of giving Willie Mays and Hank Aaron standing ovations 430 years later. Yeah they’ve been afforded a modicum of praise, but it’s a long time coming.

Gibson stayed in his chair. He was not giving those cats a standing o. Both hit close to .200 for their careers against the fearless fireballer. Supreme competitor even though he’s long since retired. He’s a legend that deserves any praise he gets and is a true G.

Had to be difficult for two of the greatest of all time because Barry was the 762 pound gorilla in the room.

Hideo Nomo retired yesterday. I’ll never forget when he and Dave Stewart threw no hitters on the same day and ESPN was lucky enough to air both games in succession.

This would be a common occurrence in Yankee Stadium

Barry Bonds a Yankee? Could it be? Not according to Brian Cashman:

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Junior Griffey is one of the best to ever play the game

During the first inning in what appeared to be a meaningless game against the Florida Marlins, Ken Griffey Jr. belted a 3-1 curveball off the left-hander Mark Hendrickson, into the right-field seats of Dolphin Stadium. He rounded the bases and ventured further into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Read more »

How many home runs would Barry Bonds hit if there weren’t so much of these?

DZ stops by TSF yet again to drop some real rap on Bonds being grounded

The Commissar Vanishes is a coffee table book for only the dourest of coffee tables. The hard-covered volume is a photographic compilation of the way that Josef Stalin systematically erased his chief political opponents, Leon Trotsky and his followers, from the history of the Russian Revolution.

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In my opinion, the game has lost its appeal since Barry Bonds has been grounded

Are you interested in Major League Baseball? Why or why not?

Someone needs to catch a bad one. Sho Nuff!

The behavior of the powers that be in sports the past couple of months has me scratching my head. More surprising than their actions is the response or lack thereof in the main stream media.

Take a look.

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