Thanks to Dead Spin: Scott Stapp Ruins Baseball.

Clemens to be indicted for perjury.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/sports/b...tml?_r=2&hp

And ladies and gentleman, my day has just been made. Somewhere Mike Piazza is sitting by his pool chuckling.

Secondary response:

This'll be the second time in his career he gets to wear stripes.

teeheee

Oh, hello 6-game winning streak and 3.5 game division lead.

So much for awakening that sleeping giant in St. Louis.

Hey XC, its not even September yet.

Just sayin'. After the Cardinals swept the Reds, people were saying the sleeping giant in St. Louis had awaken and Cincinnati wouldn't see first place again. It'll certainly be a two-team race the rest of the way, but the Reds were never dead in the water.

Did you just hear that? It was the sound of thousands of baseball fans outside of the cincinnati area yawning.

Oh, hi 11 games back and totally irrelevant.

Oh, hi 11 games back and totally irrelevant.

Ahh, to be from New York and obsessed with media attention. Enjoy your press, really. I'll watch the Reds in their pennant chase while you listen to Baseball Tonight talk about K-Rod and David Wright's hitting slump. Everyone wins, except the Mets.

Pennant chase, snort.

What you really mean is that you'll watch your Reds lose in the first round and then quickly throw on your Yankee hat, jump in the thread and yell "WHAT'D I MISS!??!"

Also, Gapper.

Better than watching my team's season end last month and being all bitter and pissed when the Yankees do their whole aura and mystique thing.

The guy who watches the Reds is talking to a Met fan about irrelevance. David Wright's hitting slump gets more press than a Reds winning streak.

The Reds are the very definition of irrelevance and nothing short of getting into the World Series will change that. in you're own town you take a back seat to the Bengals. Speaking of which, whats it like hearing more about T.O. signing than your 6.5 game streak?

You can't let the guy enjoy his team?

Says the guy who took over the Jets thread by force...

Hey hey now...let's be fair. This is really Paul's website. We're all just borrowing it, right?

Saying his mom needs him to come home, Cubs manager Lou Piniella has decided to step down after Sunday's game against the Atlanta Braves. The 66-year-old Piniella made the announcement in a release handed out by the team. Third base coach Mike Quade was promoted to interim manager.

Piniella said last month he planned to retire at the end of the season and reiterated his plans just Saturday. But he missed four games in August to be with his ailing mom in Florida and felt he needed to spend more time with her.

"My mom needs me home," Piniella said. "She hasn't gotten any better since I've been here. She's had a couple other complications, and rather than continue to go home, come back, it's not fair to the team, it's not fair to the players. So the best thing is just to step down and go home and take care of my mother."

Entering Sunday's game, Piniella's overall record was 1,835-1,712 (.517). He trails only Tony La Russa, Bobby Cox and Joe Torre in victories among active managers.

Thanks for the 1990 World Series, Sweet Lou. That wire-to-wire season is the best memory Reds fans have since the Big Red Machine.

You were how old again?

THE YANKEES ARE RUINING BASEBALL AND COMPETITIVE BALANCE!

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stor...rumblings100826

Meanwhile, we're not sparing the teams at the top, either. It's just not healthy for this sport to have a $170 million gap between the highest payroll and the lowest. So if we're creating incentives to nudge the bottom teams upward, we need to do the same to nudge the Yankees and the biggest spenders downward.

I agree with basically the whole article, even this part

Hey Cliff Lee, you're on a 1st place team, start pitching like it. Do you need to wear a Mariners jersey to pitch good again? Jerkoff.
In other news I got to see one of my favorite AL baseball players hit a homerun tonight. YEAA VLAD!!!

Can you say Flameout?

Yeah. Poor dude. I have to find the article that has this, but basically baseball is littered with talents whose bodies exploded before their time.

Every scout has a story — every single scout. Stories come with the job. If you travel around for baseball, dusty town to dusty town, big city to small, and you watch young talents pitch baseballs for long enough, you are going to see a kid with the winning arsenal, a kid with the huge fastball, the devastating curve, the nasty slider, a kid who with the right breaks just might become the greatest pitcher in the history of baseball. And, if you’re an honest scout, you know they probably won’t get the right breaks. That’s the thing about pitching. The hard part is not the stuff. There are many, many, many pitchers with the stuff. The hard part is enduring.

Yeah. Poor dude. I have to find the article that has this, but basically baseball is littered with talents whose bodies exploded before their time.

Yeah. Poor dude. I have to find the article that has this, but basically baseball is littered with talents whose bodies exploded before their time.

Mark Prior reincarnate. I read somewhere that Strasburg has a pitching motion that is devastating to your elbow.

Same shit as Kerry Wood, too. Can't stay healthy with that motion.