Rafael Palmeiro

Heading Home: Free at Last

The baseball season is over, and now another game begins — the game of free agency. Until then, the team for which you last played has exclusive rights to negotiate with you. Now I was supposed to produce, and hitting well...

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WAAF ; Smokin' Aces And Tripping Balls

blogs.waaf.com B He ended up with a $250 fine and a slap on the wrist.B What's more amazing is the lack of media pummeling he received.B B High(hehe) Pro-Athlete busted for drugs?B That's usually a 3 month discussion on our...

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Homers in wins and losses

Let's take a look at post-1954 HR leaders in their team's wins and losses. For starters, here's a little lesson about new capabilities of the PI. For a long time, we could search for career games in which players hit at least...

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Reasons To Be Skeptical Of "Female Viagra" Drug, Big Pharma's Spanish Fly

So yesterday results of a study of a drug called Flibanserin (its generic name) were rolled out at a conference in France. Flibanserin was designed as an anti-depressant, but failed its trials except in one key sense: female...

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Fun With Lineups

According to my original plan, yesterday's post was supposed to be all about unique lineups that have occurred since 1954. However, that plan was quickly discarded when I became fascinated by the story of the youngest lineup....

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Astros Have A Gold-Glove Centerfielder

Congratulations are in order for Michael Bourn. Yesterday, he became the first Astros outfielder since Cesar Cedeno in 1976 to win the Gold Glove. And anybody who has seen Bourn roam the vast Minute Maid Park centerfield knows...

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"Manager Of The Year" -- Not For Whom To Vote, But How?

athleticsnation.com So how would you take all the teams, with all their given talent and lack thereof and all the unexpected bumps along the way, look at 30 managers and all that goes into being the captain of a ship with a...

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Phil Sheridan: Eagles' Hanson snared in NFL drug net

Like most sports organizations, the NFL has a policy on performance-enhancing drugs that works like a fishnet in reverse. It is set up to let the biggest fish - the stars who can afford state-of-the-art "training regimens" -...

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The Schmuck Stops Here: Gold Glove selection a flawed process

Sorry, but I was on my flight home yesterday when the announcement came down that Adam Jones had won his first Gold Glove -- and the first by an Orioles outfielder since Paul Blair won the last of his eight in 1975 -- so I'm a...

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PI Finds: Batting Season Finder

With the new additions to the Play Index, you can run a wider variety of queries than ever before. Here are just a few examples... First, go to the main Batting Season Finder page. Notice that the yellow box at the top of the...

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