That Bootleg Guy

News Item: On Wednesday, the A's announced SP Ben Sheets will miss the remainder of the season with a torn flexor tendon in his right el...

News Item: The Oakland A's signed SP Ben Sheets to a one-year, $10M contract with incentives. Last week, Sheets – who hasn't thrown ...

Since starting this lightly-read blog, I've gone out of my way to avoid recycling material that I'd written for my previous internet...

We haven't gotten all racial 'round these parts in awhile. About a week ago, the San Diego Padres fired their General Manager Kevin ...

Ten years ago, I was motivated to leave for Los Angeles as early as I possibly could so that I would not get caught in the county's glac...

We have quite the colorful cast of characters around the offices of the Unnamed Defense Contractor. There's "The Intern", who ...

Out and about on a Saturday morning, I tuned in to Sirius XM channel 175. Back in the salad days of satellite radio, XM aired a "Home ...

Entering our penultimate game of the season, the Rays were down two players and one coach. That left 100% of the cat herding up to me for t...

Those of us here in California have had to suffer through an especially annoying array of commercials this election season. And, like any g...

Bills 24, Raiders 23

Memo to CBS: Your shameless, incessant plugging of the CBS Scene Restaurant & Bar – a joint venture with the ownership of the New Engl...

Thanks for sending me this ridiculous piece from..."StreetBeat". Yes, I know how lame I look and sound. On the other hand: Who...

I suppose I should have an opinion on the latest polarizing racial dust-up. The cover of the latest issue of Vogue magazine is the center ...

My new issue of ESPN – The Magazine arrived last week and I was jarred by the cover. Michael Jordan – the greatest athlete of our lifetim...

I've got three or four partially started posts/columns about the rapper known as Nas sitting on my hard drive. I just can't figure t...

Two weeks ago, I had a temporary crown crammed into my mouf. Yesterday, it was my second major surgical procedure in fourteen days, as my p...

One of the oldest and dearest friends of The Cameron Family sent me an email asking for a favor. Y'see, he's something of a beer co...