Guess what kids, your heroes are dead! With the most recent name release on that infamous 2003 PED leak, we now know that Sammy Sosa was among the 103 or so names that failed that initial drug test. John Shea points out that we all thought his “Flintstones vitamins” response to the PED question was cute back then, but we’re not amused now. Oh no, it’s ceased to be funny. ...
When Schneider tagged me in her version of this I almost pulled a Linus Torvalds (http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/02/25-things-about-me.html), but instead I decided not to do one at all. Then I came across two “25 Random Baseball Things” articles and fell in love with the idea as a way to release pent up excitement about the upcoming baseball season. Hope you enjoy it.. 1. Baseball was the first team sport I ever played. To this day I don’t really understand what motivated my father to sign me up for the game. My grandfather is afraid of playing catch due to an incident where he got beaned, my dad is mostly apathetic toward sports in general, including baseball, and my older brother hated little league baseball. My best guess is that we were living in the mostly Cuban (at the time) Hialeah where little league baseball is the predominant sport. ...