In case you missed the following letter down in the comments section after our item What Do Barry Bonds and Saddleback Ballplayers Have in Common?:
Kent Madole
5500 Irvine Center Drive Irvine, Calif.
Re: May 11 issue
Dear Coach Kent Madole,
In our effort to cover an issue of local, regional and national sports interest, we were apparently misled by sources to believe that coaches were aware of local athletes using banned steroids. We have since found out that this information is false. We si
SUNDAY, MARCH 30
•Gordon Dillow totally calls us out in his column. The graph in question, with translations:
“And then there were the blog comments from a certain Orange County ‘alternative’ weekly newspaper . . .”
[Translation: OC Weekly, though if I have to actually say/write their name, I’ll burst into flames/lose bowel control/grow hair.]
“. . .whose writers routinely claim that any columns I write about guns—or cops or the military or whatever—are rife with what they
Some fans and team officials think hes the devil. His player clients think hes an angel. Everyone agrees that super agent Scott Boras has changed baseballbut for better or worse? And what does he want now?
BorasJeffrey Anderson's 2007 Weekly story "The Boras Factor" made great hay out of ways Newport Beach-based baseball super-agent Scott Boras gives his clients "the competitive edge" through high technology, physical trainers, psychologists, player profiles and even a "war room" he has at his--and their--disposal. "The company also tends to players' goals off the field, such as charitable work, and the interests of their families," Anderson wrote.But one area Boras and his minions steered clear o
Since 1994, Orange County has held the . . . um . . . honor of having achieved the . . . erm . . . distinction of the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, a $1.64 billion financial fuck-up that has managed to stick like Roger Maris' single-season homerun record.But the seemingly unbeatable always seems to be beat by the equivalent of a hulking, juiced-up Mark McGwire lurking around the corner, followed by an even hulkier, juiced-er Barry Bonds lurking around the next corner.Orange County's B
OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any dayLet the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.For decades, critics rightfully deemed Boston as the country's most racist big city, and seriously: what do you expect from a town where micks and goombahs have long dominated politics, culture and d
