Mark McGwire’s admission to using steroids is at best delusional and at worst sleazy “image” spin-control to garner sympathy for Cooperstown consideration.
HITTING THE HALLMARK
Mark McGwire’s former team, the St. Louis Cardinals, has recently hired him as their hitting coach. It’s part of that organization and their famous slugger’s plan to help “Big Mac” slink [...]

Alex Ness is a writer, a poet, and a reader. You can find links to all his work at http://alexnesspoetandwriter.blogspot.com. His first post for DeepIntoSports.com recalls his fond memories of Andre Dawson’s playing days in commemoration of The Hawk’s election to baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Memories and the Hawk
1969: Twins versus Tigers in Metropolitan Stadium, [...]

Baseball’s financial inequities have taken a new twist, allowing the Yankees and Red Sox potentially to buy top players at discount prices.
Underbidding by the Big-Spenders?
There was a great article today on Yahoo! Sports today about baseball’s economics, specifically in regards to how the two most monied teams could actually end up signing the two premiere [...]

Justice has been served.
Too often post-season awards (in all sports) are doled out to the best players on the best teams, regardless of whether those players were actually the best that year in the entirety of the game. This can be due to a false measure of personal success in relation to team success, [...]

Congratulations to the Steinbrenners for buying the New York Yankees another World Series Title. Ah, the glory in being able to outspend other teams! Is that really the type of championship of which one can be proud? Regardless, Yankee fans will enjoy this victory like any other, but, to everyone else who [...]

Ah, the Fall Classic is finally upon us. It seems like baseball’s premiere showcase runs later in the year every season. In my very first post on DeepIntoSports.com (October 29, 2008), I commented on the rare situation of all four major sports leagues playing meaningful games at the same time. This year [...]

We see it in sports all the time: an NFL coach reminding a back judge his star defensive end is being held during the pass rush; an NHL player lobbying for the interference call the rule book clearly defines–and the linesman seemingly doesn’t believe in–the star NBA forward pleading for a foul even casual [...]

The Major League Baseball postseason is finally here, with an additional game to boot in today’s matchup between the Twins and the Tigers. Here are DIS’s capsule reviews of the American League and the National League Division Series, with predictions for each.
National League Division Series
St. Louis Cardinals vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
Neither of these teams [...]

I’m sick and tired of hearing how great a manager Mike Scioscia is.
I am the first to admit that he did an incredible job this year keeping his team together and focused after the Nick Adenhart tragedy. No quarrels there.
But Scioscia is the biggest whiner in baseball.
It seems like every time I turn on [...]

Hank Aaron this week called for the entire 103-name list of baseball players who tested for positive for steroids in 2003 to be made public. I believe most people, like myself, agree with him. Transparency is the only way for us to put the Steroid Era behind us once and for all. [...]