Monthly Archives: February 2009

"Major League Baseball 2K9" Swings for the Fences (The Star-Ledger)

2K Sports’ latest baseball game is warming up for opening day and I was recently invited to check out a spring training session. Ok, ok, I’ll let up on the baseball metaphors. There’s no doubt that “Major League Baseball 2K9″…

Purdy: C’mon Major League Baseball, find the way to San Jose (San Jose Mercury News)

The next move is Major League Baseball’s move. Otherwise, the A’s may never move to the place where they needed to move years ago:San Jose.    San Jose could be on deck    Vote: Should the A’s pursue a San Jose deal? [...]

Major League Baseball takes another hit with A-Rod (The Brewton Standard)

What is wrong with the world of sports these days? First Michael Phelps and now Alex (A-Rod) Rodriguez. The face of America during the 2008 Olympic games and the face of USA swimming and the face of Major League Baseball and the New York Yankees.

WADA chief wants Major League Baseball to come clean on doping (The Morning Call)

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency called on Major League Baseball to be as open as possible about steroids, arguing against any premature closure of cases involving Alex Rodriguez and others.

Colgate Around the Hill - If you were a Major League Baseball close, what song would you want played as you trot in … (Colgate Maroon-News)

I’d like to preface this blurb by stating that if a white, Jewish kid from Livingston, New Jersey ever made it to the Major Leagues, it would most definitely not be me. I played Little League and had a decent arm, but I played predominantly first base and center field because my arm was, shall [...]

Stanford freeze catches players across Major League Baseball (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)

From camp to camp, the stories virtually are the same: Baseball players, many of them multimillionaires, are short on cash because the government froze accounts in the businesses of Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.

Major League Baseball notes (Austin American-Statesman)

World Baseball Classic rosters set. NEW YORK — Final rosters for the second World Baseball Classic were released Tuesday, with Jake Peavy, Roy Oswalt and Joe Nathan highlighting a 14-man United States pitching staff that includes 10 big league relievers.

BASEBALL WON’T PUNISH A-ROD (New York Post)

TAMPA — When Alex Rodriguez is interviewed by Major League Baseball investigators — likely tomorrow — it’s doubtful his answers will result in punishment. Even after foolishly allowing cousin Yuri Sucart pick him up inside the gates of Dunedin…

Lake Erie Crushers minor league baseball team sells naming rights (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

The Lake Erie Crushers, the new independent pro baseball team scheduled to debut June 2 in Avon, have sold ballpark naming rights to All Pro Freight Systems Inc., a trucking company headquartered in Avon near the minor league field. Lake…

Baseball Hall of Fame no longer adding members (Carteret County News-Times)

J.J. SMITH Major League Baseball is a mess. And I don’t mean it the way we do in these parts, such as, “Shewl, honey, ain’t he a mess.”