Counter/Point: Suspended Scrub
April 28, 2005Ripped from the headlines, it’s our free-speech forum, where one of our country’s great leaders spars with a career .230 hitter with a trace of testosterone in his bloodstream.
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Baseballhead: The Sheffield Rule
April 19, 2005It’s got gums flapping from TV studio to city desk, and Michael Cox is no different. However, he chooses to wonder where baseball would be today if every player had decided to be like Gary. It may or may not involve gunplay, and much higher ratings for Fox.
Baseballhead: Oh, there’s a game?
April 3, 2005After a spring fraught with more opinionatin’ and pontificatin’ than ever before, it’s finally down to the actual crack of the bat, the roar of the hecklers, and the smell of the crowd. Michael Cox is back to point out that the money is already talking, so it would be nice if all the bull would just go ahead and begin, um, walking.
The Squared Diamond
March 31, 2005Even though Fox refuses to cover baseball until June, fans across the country are already preparing their alternate audio options so they can avoid the Charlie-Brown’s-schoolteacher whine that is Tim McCarver. Back on December 12, 1998 Derek Zumsteg offered up a better method than dot races and “hat tricks” to get excitement into baseball. Note the eerily prescient reference to Jose Canseco…
Baseballhead: Barry Persecuted
March 23, 2005When you watched the news yesterday, did you find yourself wondering, “how in the world could the media possibly have made Barry Bonds so bitter?” Well, Michael Cox knows…or rather, knew back in August of 2001, when it wasn’t some BALCO investigation or ex-girlfriend’s tell-all book causing friction — it was just the reporters themselves. Please enjoy this previously published yet prescient piece.
A Tale of Two Hearings
March 18, 2005Believe it or not, other people besides Mark McGwire were in Washington yesterday. Michael Cox has a blow-by-blow of the other 95% of what went on when your elected officials stuck it to baseball, like the class geek when he manages to find someone even geekier than himself.
Govern-Mental Oversight
March 17, 2005Take a break from C-SPAN and let Michael Cox supply you (so to speak) with the background to the baseball drug madness on Capitol Hill and your local sports page. It’s guaranteed to be more entertaining than watching Jose Canseco repeatedly take the Fifth.
Counter/Point: Role Models
March 15, 2005We go back to Strikethree.com’s birth year with this Counter/Point from September 24th, 1998, proving the steroid “controversy” a timeless baseball classic. Coming soon: Football Steroids LXXVII!
Baseballhead: The Juice is Loose
March 15, 2005Heading into the “steroid week” grandstand sideshow in Washington DC, we bring back this blast from the past, which is just as relevant today as it was when Michael Cox wrote it on June 2nd, 2002.
Don’t Call It a Comeback
March 15, 2005Now that we’ve answered the musical question, “how can you miss us if we won’t go away,” Michael Cox explains that no one understands “musical question” references anymore. Strikethree.com Mark II promises not to perform “Jazz Odyssey.”