PEDs

Embed from Getty Images   After Phillies pitcher Daniel Stumpf was suspended 80 games for a violation of the joint drug agreement in Major League Baseball, we learned that more suspensions were pending in coming weeks.  The first name appears to have surfaced and he had Phillies ties twice over.   Also twice over is the […]

Embed from Getty Images   Former Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra has been no stranger to controversy in his career.  So when he appeared on "The Herd" with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio this morning, one might expect that Dykstra would say something that would make headlines.  Already familiar with Dykstra's use of PEDs, Dykstra […]

Marlon Byrd, the Phillies newest (and one of their oldest) players, spoke to CSN Philly's Michael Barkann about his 50-game suspension in 2012 for performance enhancing drugs.  Byrd says that he has an explaination, and he shared it in his interview. Byrd explained that the positive test was the result of a botched breast reduction: […]

Major League Baseball is brilliant.   Alex Rodriguez hired famous New York City defense attorney Joe Tacopina to represent him, who scheduled an appearance on NBC's Today Show and sat down with Matt Lauer.   Tacopina showed up prepared to challenge baseball to waive the confidentiality agreement and said: If the Vice President of Major […]

By: Mike McShane (special reprint from Frat House Sports) Since the end of August I’ve been cohosting a three-day per week sports-talk Internet based radio show, Fan Junkies Radio. We’ve been fortunate to have some interesting guests. We’ve had sports media types like Kenny Albert; former NBA player Chucky Brown; former NHL players Dan Hinote […]

Former Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino is going to be a free agent soon.  Since the Dodgers are not going to re-sign Victorino, having agreed to take on the contract of the currently-injured Carl Crawford in a trade with the Boston Red Sox, Victorino needs a good agent.  CBS Sports' Jon Heyman reports that Victorino's […]