Live Blogging The Roger Clemens Congressional Hearings

Yesterday the oddsnark staff attempted to live blog the committee hearing with Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, but for some technical reasons it never got published. Here’s the transcript.
9:00 - has it started yet? im too hung over for this going back to bed
11:45 - Shit I overslept. Okay, well I guess I’ll turn on […]

Nolan Ryan Won’t Save The Rangers Either

Let’s say you’re a Texas Rangers fan. I know, it’s pretty unlikely even if you live in Dallas, but let’s say you are. And you’ve been waiting for like forever for your team to show some sign of competitiveness — 1999 the Rangers have had just one winning season. So is it good news that […]

Chicago Rallies The Troops For Pacific Conquest

The Chicago Cubs have a new advertising campaign for this season to get the fans fired up about some of their new, hot players. One of the ads highlights newly acquired outfielder Kosuke Fukudome who played nine seasons with the Chunichi Dragons in Japan before coming to the US big leagues. It is, as you […]

Blackmail? No Way, Jose!

A few years ago, former big leaguer José Canseco wrote a book called Juiced all about steroid use in Major League Baseball. Everyone said he was full of it and said the book was total fiction. Fast forward a couple years and we get the Mitchell Report all about steroid use in Major League Baseball. […]

Zell Chews On Wrigley Name Change

A lot of Chicago Cubs fans are howling mad at new Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell for exploring the idea of selling the naming rights to historic Wrigley Field, but people have to see this from his point of view.
What kind of deadbeat company is Wrigley anyway? They haven’t paid one red cent to keep […]

I Do Not Want To Hear About Ass Sores

In the fallout from the Mitchell Report on steroids in baseball, Roger Clemens filed a lawsuit against Brian McNamee, the guy who fingered The Rocket as a roid user. Apparently part of the evidence that will either prove or disprove McNamee’s claims will rest on whether or not Clemens had an abscess on his butt […]

Video Nasty: The Baseball Boogie

I’m sure many, if not most, of you have seen some of the reaction clips to the 2 Girls 1 Cup video on YouTube. Well, I would like to see anyone sit through an entire viewing of “The Baseball Boogie” video staring the 1986 LA Dodgers. It makes the “Super Bowl Shuffle” look like a […]

Barry Bonds Indicted on Perjury and Obstruction Charges

Kevin Youkilis Shaves it Off

Red Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis has bid adieu to the bristling goatee that threatened to ensnare the entire Colorado Rockies team in its gnarly clutches during the World Series.
“Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis shaved off his famed goatee at the Cask ‘n Flagon yesterday, collecting $5,000 from Gillette for his Hits for Kids […]

A Little Ray Of Sunshine?

It must be great to be in brand marketing. All you have to do is come up with new names for things that suck so that people won’t think that they suck anymore. Instead of Shit Sandwich you decide to call it Bread ‘n Stuff and people will love it.
Such is the case with […]