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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Eric Knott: Surviving Professional Baseball in the Steroid Era

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posted on February 26, 2013 at 11:07 PM by Der_K to diamondbacks, expos, minor leagues, peds, writing worth reading | 114 comment(s)

At Hardball Talk, Calcaterra said of this B-Pro guest piece by former journeyman pitcher Eric Knott:

We should spill way less ink about who we think “the real Home Run King” is — as if that matters — and think way harder about those frequent minor league suspensions and what they mean to the people who are faced with the choice to take dangerous drugs or wind up out of baseball.

Against that backdrop is this excellent column from Eric Knott. Knott pitched 11 years in the minors and ...

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1. TerpNats posted on March 05, 2012 at 03:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Well, the Big O and the original Yankee Stadium finally have something in common.

2. "Catching Dianetics" by Dr. L. Ron Karkovice posted on March 05, 2012 at 03:21 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Looks like the Expos will have to play another season on the road in D.C.

3. esseff posted on March 05, 2012 at 03:26 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

officials with the Olympic Installations Board rushed to the scene after an 8-by-12-metre section of the garage’s concrete ceiling collapsed

Wonder how many tonnes that is.

4. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) posted on March 05, 2012 at 03:29 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

and who's gonna pick op the cheque for the damage

5. Gamingboy posted on March 05, 2012 at 04:50 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It was a delayed sign of grief over The Kid.

6. Anonymous Observer posted on March 05, 2012 at 06:00 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Did it fall on anybody, like that big pane of glass fell on that kid in Final Destination 2? That's my favorite part of that movie. If I see that's on when I'm flipping around, I have to stop and watch, because seeing that kid get turned into blood pudding is the zenith of unintentinal comedy.

7. Dr. Vaux posted on March 05, 2012 at 06:04 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

It must be either very poorly engineered or poorly built to have had so many structural problems, which started over twenty years ago. I'm of the apparently quite unpopular opinion that it's an attractive building from the outside, though.

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