La Ruina

From the home office in Los Angeles:
Dodgers center fielder Andruw Jones, who was out of the starting lineup for Tuesday night’s game, said he has been experiencing severe allergy symptoms lately, and blamed them for the fact his season-long struggle at the plate had seemed to worsen.
“Allergies have been killing me,” Jones said. “My body […]

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Surprise!

Miguel Tejada admitted to Astros GM Ed Wade that he is actually 33, two years older than listed in his baseball records.
Like many poor kids from Caribbean countries, Tejada was encouraged to lie about his age when he signed with the Oakland A’s in 1993. The interesting thing is that all his legal […]

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Who wants to come to a big steroid party this weekend?
“There will be a hot tub out back filled with steroids, and then we’ll go in it and eat all the steroids, and then we’ll fill it back up with hot water,” Canseco said. “Then we’ll sit in the hot tub, talk about steroids and […]

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Top Ten Things Baseball Has Taught Me presented by Roger Clemens (6/16/2003)
10) “I look sweet in tight pants.”
9) “If you work hard enough you can be successful — oh yeah, and it helps to have 8 all-stars on the field behind you.”
8 ) “There’s not a damn thing to do in Milwaukee.”
7) “During a tense […]

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Seamless Baseball:
“Andy is one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever met,” Rodriguez said. “I have two daughters — well, I have one and one on the way. If I had a daughter, I would want ‘em to marry Andy Pettitte. The age difference might be a little awkward, but in today’s day and age […]

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People you don’t want to meet in a dark alley, #24: Gary Sheffield:
Sheffield said he is going to warn everybody about Boras when their dispute is resolved.
“It’s going to be the ugliest thing you’ve ever seen because certain people you don’t mess with,” he said. “And I guarantee you, I’m one of them.”
Sheffield said he […]

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I hope this is true:
Some baseball officials believe that Bonds might seek a one-year contract in Japan, where he is beloved.
Jack Elliot: [when the game starts to wane] It ain’t over till the fat lady sings!
Yoji Nishimura, Jack’s Interpreter: [Yoji translates to the teammates] When the game is over, a fat […]

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What is more humiliating to Andy Pettitte:
That he was caught using HGH, or that he used HGH and was still mediocre?

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Career highlights of Roger Clemens’s lawyer Rusty Hardin:
Rocket’s Francis Found Not Guilty of DWI
Francis, 25, admitted turning left against a red light from Westheimer onto Fountainview about 4:45 a.m. but said there was no oncoming traffic and he thought the light was about to turn green.
Officer Charles Allen, who stopped Francis’ Mercedes-Benz, testified he smelled […]

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What’s that you say? Chris has his very own blog? And he wrote about the Clemens Congressional Hearings tonight? That’s something I can see liking and reading.
An excerpt:
At 10:53AM, Clemens in responding to Elijah Cummings questions about how Andy Pettitte told the committee that Clemens told him that he used HGH (confused yet?), uttered the […]

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Mike Francesa, on how the Republican Congress members seemed to be giving Clemens a pass for the entire day:
Is Clemens running for Governor of Texas?

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I’ve never even considered the possibility that Roger Clemens may be innocent until proven guilty.  I kind of feel bad about that.
Sort of.

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