He was riding an 0-17 streak and had 51 plate appearances between home runs but Alex Rodriguez finally hit his 600th home run.   At 35 years of age he is the youngest baseball player to reach the 600 milestone… not bad.  Here is the video: continue reading...

A lot of people hate on professional athletes for making the money they make. I get that. It’s hard to live hand to mouth like so many of us do in the first place without knowing that a guy like Alex Rodriguez makes $33 million for playing baseball or that a schmuck like Rasheed Wallace makes like, $8 million for playing horrible defense and bricking threes. continue reading...

Oakland Athletics pitcher Dallas Braden, the subject of increased (media) scrutiny after his well-publicized jawing match with Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez (which inspired one guy in my fantasy league to rename his team “GET OFF MY MOUND!”), pitched the 19th perfect game in MLB history on Mother’s Day.

As such, he became something of an overnight sensation, as tossing a perfect game almost completely chumped all the people idiots on all the message boards who were responding to his perfectly legitimate beef with the game’s most arrogant player by saying things like “this guy is a nobody” and “who’s Dallas Braden?” Yesterday, he hopped from the sports pages to the big time, performing David Letterman’s Top Ten list. As the title of this post reads, Dallas didn’t play all that nice. continue reading...

I’m sure A-Rod welcomes all the support he can get, but in this case he might want to thing again… From ESPN.com:

Pete Rose believes players who use steroids commit a transgression far worse than his admitted betting on the game, but Major League Baseball’s disgraced hit king said he’d back an admitted user like Alex Rodriguez for the Hall of Fame. continue reading...