.H.: After I was told, I was happy, but in that way a person gets when they’re both thrilled and unsure about what happens next.

My mom decided we should celebrate. We were poor so we went to this dive Chinese restaurant where you order everything via numbers. I had a number 15. It came on a Styrofoam plate. My mom cried. She stood up and told everyone in the place—all of them eating from their Styrofoam cups and plates with plastic knives and forks

Hey Dirk! Don't be slamming dive chinese restaurants!

I wish there were a PED that made you a better writer, because then Pearlman might take some.

It’s hard to look at guys that have more in common with professional wrestlers than ballplayers and say to yourself, “This guy is just a natural specimen.”

I think they might be confusing Jeff Bagwell with Buff Bagwell.

This is a good interview but, as usual, every time I read Jeff Pearlman he seems like a huge 'assle. And his site could use a good proofreader.

I always find it laughable, naive, and then pathetic when people whom have never put any true effort in their lives, into trying to change their physique into a more muscular physique, so easily slough it off, that others who do, must have done so with steroids. For someone, who gets a lot of ink for being so enlightening, he's got a ways to go.

I was so nervous initiating a fight that I hit the hitter in front of the mark, and the hitter behind mark. The guy I was supposed to hit I walked on four-straight pitches, which, counting the two hit batsmen, loaded the bases. Two doubles later, my day was over. I didn’t make two innings.

Awesome story.

If you're wrong, you've ruined a player's reputation permanently. If you're right, you've...I'm not sure, maybe kept someone from the Hall of Fame for a decade? There doesn't seem much of anything to be gained from positively IDing steroid users.

After reading this interview I finally took my "The Bad Guys Won" copy to the Salvation Army. Pearlman sounds like such an awful human being.

I found this interesting:

I think Tweeting is a necessary evil. I hate it, actually. Maybe that’s why I Tweet so raw. I hate feeling like I must always be entertaining to this throng of faceless, fake-named, digital citizens because I need them to buy my product. It’s even worse now. The publishing houses monitor my Tweets. So do potential media employers. It’s a gauge of a person’s “reach” and the more reach the better the chance that person has of selling something, which, in turn, gauges how much you’ll get paid.

I understand and accept it. It’s mostly an ideological thing that leaves me shaking my fist. I feel like the impetus to create should be your desire to express yourself, not because you have some digital yoke strapped on you, forcing you to tread out entertainment to maintain relevance.


I never realized tweeting was a job, a requirement for many.

So now you're going to inflict him upon the poor? Don't they have enough to deal with?

I didn't enjoy DH's first book much at all, I think I'm in the minority with that. I find him dull and preachy.

That, combined with eyes and common sense, make me feel comfortable in saying that certain guys, undeniably, cheated.

This is my basic problem with their logic. I have no problem saying, well, some people undoubtedly did steroids. So some of the most muscular players arouse suspicion. And I can say that Player X, in my opinion, probably took steroids.

But jumping from "common sense" to "undeniable"? Shut up, dummy.

I didn't enjoy DH's first book much at all, I think I'm in the minority with that. I find him dull and preachy.

agreed--I was very disappointed after hearing all the kudos here. (I also found him a bit whiny)

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I didn't enjoy DH's first book much at all, I think I'm in the minority with that. I find him dull and preachy.

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agreed--I was very disappointed after hearing all the kudos here. (I also found him a bit whiny)

After having a very odd and I thought revealing, chain of Twitter correspondences with him once, some other people I know from the twitter world chimed in with some of their experiences with him. Some of them echoing what you've said My take was that he's perhaps very awkward with people and some of his personality is derived from that. It's interesting to see someone who is lauded as introspective, also be a thin skinned bully.

This seems rather damning:

• Five favorite sports writers: Jeff Pearlman. Hunter S. Thompson.

Pearlman? Really? And couldn't even dilute the selection by completely filling out the top five?

agreed--I was very disappointed after hearing all the kudos here. (I also found him a bit whiny)

Well, good -- in the sense, that is, that it wasn't just me. I never read it all the way through; stuff of his I'd read earlier was much, much better, somehow.