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A baseball drug-issue assignment

This whole deal in the major leagues with drug cheating is disturbing, doubly disturbing for a sports columnist like me who must write about it. I am 100 percent against drug cheating and want severe penalties for those caught. But I understand many reasonable people disagree with me. So here's [...]

By | August 24th, 2012|9 Comments

Punish teams for drug cheaters

Monte Poole and I were talking about Bartolo Colon on Comcast the other night. Monte said, for drug penalties to have real meaning, MLB also should penalize the teams. I agreed and I agree. Right now, teammates tacitly condone drug cheaters. If they don't condone them, they sure don't condemn [...]

By | August 24th, 2012|17 Comments

Big change in baseball

I'm out here at the O.Co Coliseum for the A's Opening Night game against Seattle. I'll be writing my Saturday column about the game. When the A's finished batting practice I walked over to their clubhouse to talk to some players -- Jonny Gomes, for sure. But the guard at [...]

By | April 6th, 2012|3 Comments