Appreciating Maddux, Glavine

Posted by Peter Gammons December 26, 2007 at 9:56 am In time, more names will come out, and some, like Roger Clemens , will have time to prove their innocence. But as we look askew at all the numbers and records and glory of the steroid era, two men bor...

Bart Giamatti and integrity

Posted by Peter Gammons December 22, 2007 at 3:12 pm Former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent was a guest this weekend on Bob Costas's radio show -- the best show of its kind -- and in linking Gaylord Perry's admitted cheating to the current steroids sc...

Call for everyone to come clean

Posted by Peter Gammons December 20, 2007 at 10:47 am George Mitchell offered hope in his report last week, hope that all the lurid revelations he detailed would force the owners and players to institute some meaningful system to attempt to clean up the ...

Drug culture leaves ugly feeling

Posted by Peter Gammons December 14, 2007 at 3:13 pm When I awoke this morning, I felt as if I had spent a fortnight sleeping underneath the Gandy Bridge. George Mitchell did what he was paid to do, and because baseball's rampant drug culture is as well...

Twins taking it slow with Santana

Posted by Peter Gammons December 11, 2007 at 5:34 pm So, how can anyone criticize Twins general manager Bill Smith for taking his time to make sure he gets the best deal he can for Johan Santana ? Santana is 28. He may be a Hall of Famer whose career e...

Dombrowski drafts his own plan

Posted by Peter Gammons December 5, 2007 at 9:28 pm Bud Selig and some of his current and former fiscal bulldogs in the commissioner's office won't like to hear this, but as the Miguel Cabrera deal was about to be formally introduced, one Tigers offici...

Beinfest knows what he wants

Posted by Peter Gammons December 3, 2007 at 9:38 am Everyone knows what it will take to get Miguel Cabrera from the Marlins: three or four good young players with 0-3 years service time. Now, I do not know why the Angels were willing to at least talk a...

The rich get richer

Posted by Peter Gammons December 1, 2007 at 4:29 pm Now you start thinking about what it's going to be like when C.C. Sabathia is a free agent at the end of next season, or when Brad Penny and Jake Peavy hit the market the following year. Bud Selig t...