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Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Pat Burrell may seem like an odd player to root for — underperforming, overpaid, universally maligned by Phillies fans — but for a while I’ve felt bad for the guy. He and shortstop Jimmy Rollins have spent their entire careers with the woeful-no-longer Phillies, and Philly fans are nothing if not [...]

Gotta love Mitch Albom.  His folksy, leftist populism has always been a big hit with sports fans in Detroit.  Mitch is crafty enough to be overtly non-partisan, but if you read his columns long enough, you get the impression that he’s a closet D. Reading Mitch’s piece yesterday on the firing of Matt Millen, I’m [...]

This afternoon, Goldy wondered about the half-assed last-minute effort by local billionaires to save the Sonics: Not that the folks behind this proposal ever believed they’d get a bill out of the current session. These are savvy folk. Rich folk, who’ve spent plenty of money on Olympia lobbyists in the past. They know how the [...]

I was watching ESPN’s SportsCenter at the gym this morning, and, between the Clemens steroid thing and the Arlen Specter NFL Patriots thing, it looked more like CSPAN than ESPN. Confidential to our elected officials: you’re probably introducing a fair number of people to the workings of Congress here. If you want them all to [...]

If you need any more evidence that economic impact studies around sports arenas are full of crap, read this hilarious Seattle Times article. The Sonics were for economic development before they were aganst it. (via Postman)

100% Beckham-free. (this post is just here to bait the Professor…)

The Beige One’s post on Barry Bonds spurs me to write down some thoughts I’ve been having about Mr. 756. To me, the performance enhancers are the least of it. He faced ‘roided pitchers, ‘roids weren’t even banned at the time, etc. And the differences in training and related technology make this era so incomparable [...]

After postponing the inevitable for a couple of days there, the Phillies finally do it: It was the kind of game Phillies fans had seen thousands of times before. Now, make it 10,000 times. Bad starting pitching, brutal relief and hardly any hitting. Oh, and lots of booing. Loss No. 10,000 came Sunday night when [...]

When Major League Baseball play resumes on Friday, the Phillies will again have a shot at hitting a new highlight in professional sports futility — 10,000 losses, a mark no other professional sports franchise has ever met. After a snarky article in the New York Times (with the rub-it-in-your-face headline “Milestone Marks What Phillies Fans [...]

The brave horse will be in everyone’s minds at this weekend’s Kentucky Derby. Barbaro’s vet reflects on the sad story: It has been nearly a year since [Dr. Dean W.] Richardson watched the Preakness on a six-inch television while performing veterinary surgery near West Palm Beach, Fla., and saw Barbaro take a dreadful, shattering misstep [...]