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Tag Archive for ‘Alex Rodriguez’

Online Overkill – week of March 8

Good, bad, annoying or indifferent, these are the stories that got the most play or not enough in my blog reader this week. The coming evangelical collapse. As much as I enjoy Michael Spencer’s Internet Monk blog, I thought he went a little thick with the sensationalism on his evangelical collapse posts back in January. […]

Can’t win with him

The Yankees are acting as if Alex Rodriguez is Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle, the kind of player they can’t win without, despite the sorry fact that so far, he has only been the kind of player they can’t win with. –Wallace Matthews

Sports Illustrated’s double standard

How can your biggest story of the year expose an athlete for using artificial supplements, while your biggest issue of the year features models who likely used artificial implants? Looking at these women is the same as watching Major League Baseball players you suspect of doing steroids. They’ve all taken extreme measures which both give […]

Bad logic of a bad system

Can I say that as someone who doesn’t really follow baseball, I’ve been pretty surprised at all the gnashing of teeth over the revelation that Alex Rodriguez was using steroids back during the period when Major League Baseball had no real testing and sanctions policy for steroids. Haven’t we reached the point where we should […]