MLB

Get ready, Miami. The Marlins are coming. Or at least they will be. 2012!

ESPN.com:

"The Florida Marlins will soon have a home of their own.

The team on Monday cleared the last political hurdle in its decade-long quest to get its own ballpark in Miami when the Miami-Dade County commission voted to approve the multi-million dollar deal.

The Mariners have way too many starters. It includes young guys (Felix Hernandez, Brandon Morrow, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Garrett Olson) and veterans (Jarrod Washburn, Carlos Silva, Erik Bedard). Also, non-roster invitees like Chris Jakubauskas are also in the contension. But there are only five spots on the rotation. Who will make it?

The Oakland A's, with some new faces, most likely will tie with the upstart Rangers for second in the American League West division. Oakland brought back Jason Giambi, and traded young center fielder Carlos Gonzalez to Colorado for the powerful Matt Holliday.

Their pitching staff will need to come through behind Justin Duchscherer and Dana Eveland. The bullpen will have Joey Devine and Brad Ziegler in the late innings.

Keep and Eye on: Gio Gonzalez, sp

Drugs in any case are horrid. It seems that it is especially big in sports, such as baseball. Also in the WWE but that's fake and many believe that it is a useless show to watch.

People have their own opinion though and we can not change that. Anyway lately it seems as though people have just been coming clean about steroid use. (HGH hormone enhancers, call them whatever you want to

There are certain iconic phrases and images whose mere mention will produce galvanized memories among most. 

The line "I'll be back" makes us all think of Arnold Schwarzenegger in "The Terminator."  The phrase "Do you believe in miracles?" is forever screamed in Al Michael's excited register and in reference to the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team. 

Unless you have lived in a cave since the late 1990s, the image of a bloody sock makes you think of Curt Schilling.

Today, Schilling announced his retirement. 

Dear Roger Clemens:

I've had enough: I'm leaving you behind. It's time to say goodbye. You chose to go the route you did and drag everyone that loved watching you compete down with you.

In the words of Fleetwood Mac, "You can go your own way." 

You were once a paragon of athleticism and hard work. You symbolized what ability, hard work and arrogance could accomplish not only in baseball, but also in life. You were an artist on the mound that mixed perfect mechanics, a blazing fastball, splitter, fear and location into 300-plus wins.

Curt Schilling announced his retirement today after a 20 seasons in the Major Leagues spent with the Orioles, Astros, Phillies, Diamondbacks, and Red Sox.

Almost immediately, ESPN and sports-talk radio was flooded with analysis of Schilling's career. It was a day-long debate about Schilling's worthiness of future Hall of Fame enshrinement.

Curt Schilling announced today he was retiring from Major League Baseball. A 200-game winner, three-time World Series Champion, six-time all-star and three time 20-game winner has a great resume, but it it enough to gain enshrinement Cooperstown?

Like most modern day players, longevity of time versus overall dominance plays a huge role in how one examines the career of the former Phillie, Oriole, Diamondback and Red Sox.

After the Tampa Bay Rays halted the New York Yankees' bid for a ten-game winning streak yesterday, the Phillies handed Chien-Ming Wang his second loss of the spring.

Lawrence Barreca and I are community leaders on Bleacher. I live in Maryland. He lives in Louisiana. So how do we communicate? We run a show called "Baltimore Sports Analysis" on BlogTalkRadio.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Baltimore-Boy/2009/03/24/Baltimore-Sports-Analysis

That would be our first episode. Here are our respective profiles:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Baltimore-Boy