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...BAT TO WORSE...
...then there was that thing about the corked bat. Following last Tuesday's discovery that Sosa was using an illegal bat in a game against Tampa Bay, the denunciations extended all the way to his home country of the Dominican Republic.? "We can't forgive him. He smears all Dominicans with what he did," 16-year-old Rolfi Lajana Santana, of Sosa's hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, told the Orlando Sentinel.? Ouch.? Sosa says the whole thing was an accident, that he used a practice bat in a game. Seattle Mariners third baseman Jeff Cirillo (who, it must...
...steroids to dispel any rumors of drug use.? Sosa reportedly called Reilly a ?motherf___er? and stormed off.? Some would expect a large controversy over the incident, yet the steroid issue hasn?t dogged Sosa, despite being more of a serious issue than his use of a corked bat (which, on a physics side note, can actually be detrimental to a hitter?s power...
Would you go with Farkes, as the Ivy League did when naming its Rookie of the Year? Would you go with the guy who led the Crimson in home runs (8) and walks (25) as a freshman, batting .308? The kid who saw the ball better heading to the plate than anyone on the team, turning each at-bat into a seven- or eight-pitch ordeal...
...Those guys weren’t freshmen to me when they came up to bat at the end of the year,” Walsh says. “They were just guys in the varsity lineup whom I was really glad to see when they got up there...