Now I know it’s true. 
When Curt Schilling offers $1 million for anyone to prove his self-proclaimed bloddy sock isn’t soaked with his own blood, you know it was doctored and fake.  And when announcer Gary Thorne has to pull his best Gailleo-like confession to retain his job and his head, your know the sock on display [...]

Why am I not surprised?
First, the national pastime brought us Mark McGwyre, bulked up on steroids, to save the game after th 1994 strike with a “record”-setting 70 home runs.  Wow, and then Sammy Sosa chipped in with three seasons of 60 HRs or more–and a corked bat!
What’s next?

Seen at Disneyland: A 12-year-old girl driving an Autopia car with a cell phone plugged squarely in her mouth and ear as she gabbed away.
Is this verisimilitude or a California soccer mom in training, soon to become death on wheels? 
My only question: Where was the cappuccino to occupy her other hand?

In a sign of something, changing times maybe, Japanese baseball teams are turning more and more to hiring American managers, who numbered three at last count and who at one time were totally shunned as being “too easy.”
Bobby Valentine’s having won the Japan Series in 2005 helped open the tricklegates to the other Americans, all of [...]

One of the immortal lines in baseball yore is the plaintive cry to “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, he of throwing-the-game fame:  “Say it ain’t so, Joe.”
In this day of steroids, I propose shortening and updating the sentence to “Say it ain’t Sosa.”  Why not?  Let’s use Sammy Sosa, he of corked-bat and three-60-homer-seasons fame and ultimate [...]

China is debuting its version of American Idol but with a twist–it’s being censored!
No suspect performers like Antonella Barba, in other words, though I’m not sure how they can screen for this stuff.  Which wouldn’t matter anyway because porn sites are censored in China.
However, the goal is “[n]o weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste,” according [...]

When you get right down to it, there’s not much any of us can do about the tyrants and injustices of the world, so where does that leave us?  Can we change anything?
Here’s my list of what I’d like to change in the world: 
First, outlaw buttons in any type of clothing.  I spend half [...]