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The breaking ball. That wicked curveball that makes a sudden sharp "break" as it nears the plate. Bane of hitters on every diamond. But according to new research, whether or not a curveball "breaks" is not determined by how a pitcher throws it, but rather how the batter observes it. So, is...

Today, the voice of the New York Yankees since 1952, died. His name was Bob Sheppard. He was from Richmond Hill, Queens. About 2 miles from where I live. vj434vCtNRw&

Link1: Appeantly, HGH hasn't been shown to have peformance enhancing abilities or to have an effect on rehabilitation. Thus you ask, Link 2: So then why do baseball player take it? Wonder if the actual effects of HGH will be brought up or mentioned in the congress hearings... BTW, I am...

Word is he was "too busy". What a crock of shoo. GW never misses an opportunity to bail out on work. He was afraid of being humiliated by the round of boos that would rain down on him from the DC crowd. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006928327 Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Among his...

With apology to our foreign readers/posters have important news. The world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, truthers and woo-woo conspiracy nuts are taking over. Yet it all doesn't matter..... The 2007 Baseball opens today (actually tonight) with NY Mets against St Louis Cardinals...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060310/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/puerto_rico_cuba_brouhaha I love this story. A man holds up an anti-Castro sign at the World Baseball Torunament in Puerto Rico -- where it is flashed on TV to Cuba. A Cuban baseball offial rushes over and berates the man. Police remove...

I don't know how many of you have seen this but: Intelligent Design vs. Baseball Bat. Enjoy.

Can Republicans survive? Their actions and/or statements become more absurd everyday. From the Drudge Report: They enjoy all sorts of exemptions' from anti-trust laws. Rep. John Sweeney (R-N.Y.), vice chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that covers the District of Columbia budget...

Congress gives Selig, Fehr, sluggers long day's hearing I watched most of the baseball executives' testimony live and caught some of the players' testimony afterwards. The committee really came after them, in way that only a bi-partisan congressional committee going after a cheesecake issue...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Major League Baseballs wildcard playoffs. For those who dont know the wildcard basically expanded the baseball playoffs by adding an extra spot. Its been a big success because more teams stay in the playoff hunt until the very end of the year. THis has...

I dunno if this belongs in this forum or the sports forum. It probably belongs in both. Anyways, here's the story http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sportsNews&storyID=6234488 I wonder what that guy was saying that could have made the Rangers that mad? I seriously doubt it was...

Cleveland Pitcher was in Gay Porn Film Indians minor leaguer Kazuhito Tadano is asking for forgiveness for what he called a one-time mistake -- his appearance in a gay porn video in which he engaged in a homosexual act. Tadano took part in the video three years ago when he was a college...

You probably knew this already. I remember Medved as a not-very-interesting movie critic. Yesterday on my drive home from work, I heard the intro to the Medved radio program - baseball and the curses on the Cubs and the Sox. So I kept listening, much to my amazement. Medved believes in...