TUCK! toons right here, every Thursday. Except this week.

Frank Murtaugh of the Memphis Flyer has a pretty sane take on today’s baseball world: Whether your take [on steroids] is outrage or apathy, though, a deep breath would be valuable as the 2009 baseball season nears its third month. The game is not dying, by any stretch. And there is reason to believe — […]

Just in case you were wondering if the feds had given up on Roger Clemens: Federal agents recently questioned a longtime associate of Jose Canseco and Roger Clemens as the Justice Department continues its investigation into whether the seven-time Cy Young Award winner lied when he testified under oath before a congressional committee that he […]

Manny Ramirez is acting all shy and embarassed and is sending mixed signals as to whether he’s going to meet up with the Dodgers when they arrive in Miami today. Some insight into his mindsent can be found here. (link via IIATMS)

I never cease to be surprised at the sheer number of things you can gamble on. For example: The online betting website Bookmaker.com has posted odds on who will be the next player suspended by MLB under the drug policy in 2009. Alex Rodriguez is still eligible at 3/1 followed by Adrian Beltre at 375 […]

Fanno gets a dog!

I’m not a big fan of Dave Zirin — I think he’s going on his 50th straight column in which race, class, Bush and Nixon are prominently mentioned, and that’s overkill even for me — but you can’t say the guy isn’t passionate about his subjects.

If the pitch is in the next zip code and you swing at it, you might be a hacker.

Um, OK: A source close to Manny Ramirez said Thursday that the illegal substance for which the Los Angeles Dodgers slugger tested positive was not “an agent customarily used for performance enhancing.” At least not on the baseball diamond. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the substance is supposed to boost sex […]

The NBC folks asked if I’d put it up over there, so anyone interested in what I think about all of this, check it out here. Short version: it’s not all that dissimilar from what I thought when A-Rod was outed as a ‘roider back in February.