Eric Florack on December 13th, 2007

NEW YORK —AP- Judgment Day arrived for baseball’s steroids era, with the Mitchell report set to be released and posted on the Internet for all to see.Many questions from a decade of doping will be answered, but many will remain

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Eric Florack on April 4th, 2021

# If you’re complaining about the cost of fuel and with it the cost of everything else, and you’re looking for a cause of the problem? I would strongly advise you to check out the Biden -Harris bumper sticker on

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Eric Florack on March 2nd, 2013

Let’s imagine, that we have two arbitrary points on a line.  You’re standing on one of them.

Let’s further imagine, that you move half way to the other point.

Then, you move halfway to the other point.

Then, you move

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davidl on July 10th, 2011

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble

Dumbo knee deep in his own poop, Jennifer Rubin explains that it the policies stupid.    That is an lame speech,  the only kind of speech Obama can deliver, can not paper over a failed economic policy, from Washington Post

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Eric Florack on February 9th, 2009

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the sphere… Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

ramble-bluegrace An interesting weekend, and lots on the horizon to discuss. Let’s get it.

  • PROKULUS: Obama is scheduled to beg and plead for his Porkulus

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Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know, Colin Powell. All the rage over the weekend. I don’t think there’s much argument against the idea that there’s a

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davidl on January 7th, 2008

Roger Clemens (><img border=Roger Clemens (Roger Clemens compiled a life time record of 354 wins to 184 losses.  You don’t win that many ballgames without being competitive.  Well Clemens may be retired, but he is still competitive.  Clemens have filed a defamation lawsuit against his

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

I said yesterday morning that Major league baseball and its report that was issued yesterday about steroid use, was going to end up being a sham. They’d throw a few players under the bus, and that would be the end

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Eric Florack on November 15th, 2007

Several folks, including Billy Beck, and a pile more at Memeorandum, have noted thet Barry Bonds was indicted in that BALCO thing. Chicoer.com:

SAN FRANCISCO—Barry Bonds, baseball’s home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday

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davidl on August 14th, 2007

Scooter

The Scooter, Phil Rizzuto, has died at age eigbty-nine.  Some players were better.  None were more beloved.  Dan Bollerman, reports: 

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) — Phil Rizzuto, a Hall of Fame shortstop and 40-year broadcaster for the New York

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Eric Florack on August 7th, 2007
  • Raining here, today. So much for getting any work done on the trailer.
  • Honorable mention at OTB’s Caption Contest.. For once it wasn’t just the trailer park.
  • TNR has released a statement on Beauchamp. Basically, the story amounted to

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So, George Stienbrenner isn’t happy with “The Bronx is Burning”?

(Shrug )

Yeah, well, about that….. I’ve got a suggestion for ya, Georgie…. How about putting a real team together?

A team that isn’t routinely getting its lazy backside kicked

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Eric Florack on July 19th, 2007

I’ll come right out and say this; I’ve never been a fan of Michael Vick. Certainly, he is talented in terms of football, however, I’ve always considered his style of play to be problematic in that he plays as an

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2007

* gas2.jpegThe oil companies are making on the order of 8¢ a gallon for gasoline. Meanwhile, the smallest tax on a gallon of gasoline comes up to 27¢, that being in the state of Alaska. Here in New York, it

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Eric Florack on December 15th, 2004

James at Outside The Beltway seems to think baseball in the DC area’s in trouble. He quotes Boswell in the WaPo who says in part:

“Late Tuesday night, in the 11th hour of a marathon D.C. Council meeting, chairman Linda

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