Ick’s Corner

Add Memorial Hermann Hospital to the list of buildings removing tainted names down in Houston.  Enron Field became Minute Maid field after the Enron scandal, and now Hermann Hospital will remove Roger Clemens name from their *Sports and Athlete* building.  Fallout from his involvement with steroids doesn’t stop there, he has also been removed from [...]

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With the baseball antichrist (Scott Boras) as Mark Teixeria’s agent, its really no surprise that the price tag for Teixeria is only go up by the day. Several teams have already made huge big money, multi-year contract offers, and yet Tex is still trying to sort it all out? It’s starting to look like $20+ [...]

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I’m neither a baseball fan, NOR a BO fan, but I thought this was kind of funny.

White Sox Fans go to the White House

Cubs Fans go to the Big House

Courtesy of the Mr.

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After 23 years Greg Maddux announced his retirement yesterday. He held his retirement press conference on the first day of the Major League Baseball winter meetings in Las Vegas. As always very soft spoken, and holding his composure.
“I really just came out here today to say thank you,” he said in a ballroom at the [...]

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The checkbooks are ready, the offers are starting to fly. Must mean its free agency time in major league baseball…

As expected after his dominating performance as a member of the Brewers CC Sabathia is going to be expensive. The Yankees have already made a huge offer to help their struggling bullpen. There is a 6 [...]

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Really no surprise on either manager selected as manager of the year. Lou Piniella led the Cubs to the leagues best record this year. This marks Piniella’s 3rd manager of the year award (1995 & 2001)

Joe Maddon being selected as the AL manager of the year should be more like the *no shit* headline of [...]

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Tim Lincecum was about the only bright spot for the San Francisco Giants this season. For his efforts he was named the NL Cy Young winner.
18-5
2.62 ERA
Major League leading 265 strike outs

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