the solution: smaller ballparks

There's Something in the Air, Other Than Another Ball Headed for the Fence
By Thomas Boswell
Friday, May 23, 2008; Page E01

Suddenly, a sport that produced 5,386 home runs in 2006 is on pace for 4,442 this year -- a 17.5 percent drop, or a loss of almost 1,000 home runs in just two seasons...

This season, major league teams have scored 8.98 runs per game. Since 1871, there have been 1,750,230 runs in the majors, an average of 9.11 per game. Warm weather, when fly balls carry farther, might bring the game almost exactly back to its long-term scoring trend.

Roger's fullas#i+ problem

"If true, it's just another example of Roger's pervasive prevarications which will be at the core of any defamation case."

-- Richard Emery, attorney for Brian McNamee, who is the target of Roger Clemens' defamation suit for telling everyone about the steroids and s#i+, responding to news reports that someone named Mindy McCready, who is apparently famous or something, was more than a family friend to Clemens from the time McCready was 15 and s#i+.

When did fullas#i+ become pervasive prevarications, and when can we have fullas#i+ back?

maybe he could work for the Justice Dept?

Clemens struggles under questioning

Clemens pressed by Congress, denies accusations by Pettitte, McNamee

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Roger Clemens struggled to find the right words under questioning during a congressional hearing Wednesday and denied new accounts of drug use made against him by former teammate and close friend Andy Pettitte.

Using words like "misremembered" and mispronouncing the last name of his chief accuser, Brian McNamee, Clemens rambled and stumbled during his early remarks on Capitol Hill.

Clemens' reputation and legacy were on the line, and there was the possibility that criminal charges could follow after the seven-time Cy Young winner testified.

"I have never taken steroids or HGH," Clemens said, his voice rising. "No matter what we discuss here today, I am never going to have my name restored."

And then it was weird...

because the best editorial about business, morality and government was at Baseball Prospectus written by the resident founder and depressive, Gary Huckabee. He even comes up with a little gem: "[s]elective protection of the young teaches hypocrisy."