The Big Dead Sidebar (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
Every week I do Power Rankings because I feel obliged to take a weekly cheap shot at Phil Rogers, who couldn't write his way out of a paper bag. This week, I'll take a jab at Gorden Wittenmeyer, who I assume cuddles with Rogers before he writes his stories. 1. Perfection. White Sox fans have Mark Buehrle , Cubs fans have Bud Light Fan Cam at Wrigley Field. 2. First Place. .5 is a number Tony LaRussa...
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Jim Parque: From UCLA star, surprising 13-game winner in 2000, and admitted HGH user. If you read his HGH “story,” you almost want to sympathize with the cheater. Why shouldn’t the guy have been able to use HGH - which wasn’t banned by MLB - to improve his recovery time following a torn labrum? I [...]
Wait 'til this Year (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Congratulations to Mark Buehrle on his perfect game against the Rays. It was the first in the majors since Randy Johnson blanked the Braves in 2004, and just the 18th in MLB history. The win also brought Buehrle into a tie for the league lead in wins, and pulled the Sox into a virtual tie for first in the AL Central. I'm no Sox fan (as evidenced by a t-shirt I own which says nothing but "SOX SUCK"...
Amazin' Avenue (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Add yet another story to the New York Met near perfect game/no hitter lore. I've come to accept it as a law of nature that the New York Mets will be shut out in this department. It's only frustrating if you allow yourself to think that something is actually possible. Meet the Mets Of course, the big news in MLB is Mark Buehrle's perfect game and Dewayne Wise's amazing 9th inning catch . So, let's try...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
Jim Parque said he used the performance enhancer in a failed attempt to save his career after a 2002 shoulder injury.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
From the look of Jim Parque's 5-foot-11-inch, 170-pound frame, Paul Konerko admitted he was surprised by his former White Sox teammate's admission that he took human growth hormone after his release from the Sox.
The FanHouse - Indiana Pacers (Free subscription) | 07/24/2009
by Josh Alper Filed under: Rays , White Sox , AL Central , AL East , MLB PEDs Former White Sox and Rays pitcher Jim Parque is never going to be one of the players closely linked to baseball's "steroid era." He was a marginal major league starter who may have become something more if he didn't tear his labrum during the 2000 playoffs, but a first-person piece he wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
(Dwayne Wise robbing Gabe Kapler of a 9th inning HR and preserving Buerhle’s perfecto — surely worthy of a presidential phone call, too?), making With apologies to Lloyd Bridges, Jim Parque picked the wrong day to confess PED use. The White Sox’s Mark Buerhle threw a perfect game against Tampa today, the first such accomplishment in [...]
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Jim Parque, a former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay, said he used human growth hormone 'about six times' after he was cut by Chicago in 2002 and before he tried a comeback with the Rays the following season.
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Jim Parque, a former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay, said he used human growth hormone 'about six times' after he was cut by Chicago in 2002 and before he tried a comeback with the Rays the following season.
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
There's just no good excuse for using performance-enhancing drugs Jim Parque has finally admitted what the Mitchell Report had accused him of and what he had initially dismissed: that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Jim Parque, a former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay, says he used human growth hormone "about six times" after he was cut by Chicago in 2002 and before he tried a comeback with the Rays the following season.
Walkoff Walk (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Sometimes people write better than us. Each Thursday WoW gives you our favorite baseball links we've come across. Former MLB pitcher Jim Parque took HGH during his career and is sorry, despite the fact that HGH was neither illegal nor...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Jim Parque, a former pitcher for the White Sox and Tampa Bay, says he used human growth hormone "about six times" after he was cut by Chicago in 2002 and before he tried a comeback with the Rays the following season.
ESPN (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Jim Parque's confession that he used HGH draws ambivalence and admiration among the Chicago White Sox.
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