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New York Yankee construction workers spoil the fun of some dope buring a Red Sox jersey…

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sportsburn
Published: 13 April 2008 7:00 PM EDTPosted in: MLBTags: , , , ,

This is just dumb. It seems that the Yankees had to get their construction workers to go through 2 feet of cement to find a Red Sox jersey that was buried to have something to hang over the heads Yankee Fans when they enter their new stadium. But thank goodness they were tipped off on this to stop this dumb ass joke.

On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli, phoned in tips about the shirt’s location. “We had anonymous people come tell us where it was, and we were able to find it,” said Frank Gramarossa, a project executive with Turner Construction, the general contractor on the site.

It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said.
Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney’s office.

“We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual,” he said.

A woman who answered the phone at Castignoli’s home in the Bronx on Sunday said he was not there.

Hey, Im not a Yankee fan, but this shit has to stop when it comes to people fukking with a multi-million dollar project just to have something to chant about during the baseball season on curses and other crap.

Read more about this and I hope whoever did this gets prosecuted for this. I like pranks, but this is just dumb.

(Images: AP Photo/Frances Roberts)

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HGH may worsen performance, not enhance it

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Published: 18 March 2008 8:09 AM EDTPosted in: MLBTags: , , ,

HGHAthletes who take human growth hormone may not be getting the boost they expected.

While growth hormone adds some muscle, it doesn’t appear to improve strength or exercise capacity, according to a review of studies that tested the hormone in mostly athletic young men.

“It doesn’t look like it helps and there’s a hint of evidence it may worsen athletic performance,” said Dr. Hau Liu, of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, Calif., who was lead author of the review.

Growth hormone, or HGH, is among the performance enhancers baseball stars Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte were accused of taking in the blockbuster Mitchell Report. Clemens denies using the hormone, while Pettitte admits using it.

But the new research has some limitations and sheds no light on long-term use of HGH. The scientists note their analysis included few studies that measured performance. The tests also probably don’t reflect the dose and frequency practiced by athletes illegally using the hormone. Experiments like that aren’t likely to be conducted.

“It’s dangerous, unethical and it’s never going to be done,” said Dr. Gary I. Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency and a spokesman for the American College of Sports Medicine.

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Pedro Martinez, has Mike Vick not taught us anything?

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sportsburn
Published: 08 February 2008 11:05 AM ESTPosted in: MLBTags: ,


Mike Vick has taught us that our society frowns upon the fighting of animals.  Was PETA marching up and down the Falcons practices not enough to show you that you can’t be struttin’ around a ring with a Cock getting it ready for fighting.  The sad thing about it is, you on camera dude!  And you are showing all 32’s too while doing it.  Eventhough this type of fighting is legal in the Dominican Republic, don’t you think that the NY Mets might have something to say about their star pitcher, the same pitcher that was supposed to deliver their franchise a World Series, around this type of activity?Has Mike not shown us how ugly it can get as a celebrity involved with activities like this?  But just look at yourself.  Well, everyone can see you.  You don’t have your boys who can try to cover for you and then snitch on you, you dug the grave and did a good job of adding the dirt on top of you.  Let’s see if this gets as ugly as it was in Virginia this fall.  I don’t think that it will, but let’s just see.  Here is video: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid285859616/bclid294430730/bctid1408993307

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Mississippi Braves Manager Phillip Wellman goes beserk, throwing grenades, and kicking up dirt video

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Published: 04 June 2007 1:16 PM EDTPosted in: MLB, Sports VideosTags: , ,

With all of the managers going crazy last week, Phillip Wellman takes the cake.  This guy goes off on a 2 minute rant throwing bases, crawling on the ground, pulling the pin and throwing a fake grenade, and doing some na-na-na boo boo thing with his hands *shrugs. 

Check out the video that will become on youtube’s all time list of favorite videos!

 Lou Pinella, you can take a page out of Phillip Wellman’s book of showing umpires the business!

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Carlos Zambrano and Michael Barrett Fight in the Dugout, well, slapfest video

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sportsburn
Published: 02 June 2007 12:58 AM EDTPosted in: MLB, Sports VideosTags: , , ,

Here’s the video of the non-fight and partial fist of Carlos Zambrano hitting his catcher Michael Barrett.  Next time Michael, you probably want to focus on the pissed off man in front of you instead of trying to point out something.  And Carlos, my man, when punching, you are supposed to close your fist.  Only people who open hand are pimps and girls and you are neither.

And Lou, get yo old ass out the way!

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