Writing the Pine

Today’s Pick of the Day

For our first ever bet of the day, we’ll be going crazy: a four-team parlay in MLB.  It’s real tough to pick winners this late in the season in the NBA so I wanted to stay away from those games.  Keep in mind, I am a terrible better so proceed with caution: Game #1 – Washington [...]

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Our First Podcast!

The time has finally come…for Writing the Pine’s very first podcast!  Yes, we are extremely lazy with our posting so we figured we’d give podcasting a shot.  It’s a new frontier we’re entering and hopefully you will be entertained by our thoughts.  For our first show, Rich (fivetool), Anderson, Gene (Final Word), and Dave talk [...]

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The Professor – Definitely All Natural

It would be shocking to the Writing Illini if Greg Maddux was found to be on 'roids.

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“The Kid” – Definitely All Natural

It'd be shocking to the Pine Time Player (and to many others) if Junior was on 'roids.

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Who Would Shock You if He Was on ‘Roids?

In our last article, we talked about how for most players, it wouldn’t surprise us at all if we found out they were on steroids on some PED.  But there are still some players out there that we genuinely believe are au naturale.  Some of our writers will share which players they would be shocked [...]

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BREAKING NEWS: Sosa Tested Positive for PED in ‘03

Former co-golden boy of the summer of ‘98, Sammy Sosa allegedly tested positive for a PED in 2003.  He is one of the 104 that tested positive that year along with current Yankees 3B, Alex Rodriguez.  (His inclusion on the list was leaked earlier this year in spring training.) Aside from hurting his chances for any [...]

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The Horribles

The New York Mets played quite possibly the worst inning of baseball I’ve ever seen in my life.  Ryan Church missing third base on a potentially game-winning run, Carlos Beltran and Angel Pagan miscommunicating on a flyball, Jeremy Reed throwing the ball to the stands on a game-extending double-play ball, the Amazin’s did it all…very [...]

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Just Add a Roof

I waited outside in the rain for well over an hour hoping to catch my hour and half long bus ride home.  It was late and the rain that started off as a drizzle quickly became a trickle which gave way to a downpour. I thought about the forty-some-odd-thousand fans that sat in their seats in [...]

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