Check out some of his tweets from today:

Sure Canseco was a 350 hitter with a 1 in 9 hr per at bat average over his career, but he was also a steroid junkie, fame hour, and all around terrible teammate during his career.

Darvish pitched in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2009 World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japanese national team. At 25 years of age, he is considered by many to be the best pitcher in Japanese professional baseball, and many think soon to be considered one of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball.

Although his contract with the Rangers was originally thought to be a guaranteed $60M it turns out the deal is structured as a guaranteed $56M but with incentives and bonuses built into the contract. Foul Territory had these details of the breakdown:

Keep in mind that $56 million is guaranteed, and the rest can be earned through roster bonuses. He can opt out after five years if he reaches some high performance thresholds.

Also take note of the 2012 salary. The entire deal is Rangers-friendly if Darvish performs at an elite level.

2012: $5.5 million
2013: $9.5 million
2014: $10 million
2015: $10 million
2016: $10 million
2017: $11 million

Back in August the Cardinals were 10.5 games behind the Atlanta Braves in the National League wild card race. They finished the season on a tear going 18-8 in September to win the wild card spot on the last day of action.

Then after a strong playoff run, they found themselves just one pitch away from elimination in the 6th game of the series against the Texas Rangers. Cardinals David Freese hit a walk-off home run in the 11th inning to tie the series 3-3. The Cardinals went on to win. It was for these reasons President Obama commented on the Cardinals place in the history of ‘comeback teams’….

Manager Tony La Russa, who retired after the series, and slugger Albert Pujols, who signed with the Los Angeles Angels in the offseason, were not with the team that made the trip to the nation’s Capital, which will also include a stop at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to visit with patients and their families.

Obama admired Pujols for hitting three home runs in one game and La Russa’s managerial career. He also praised the Cardinals as “the greatest comeback team in the history of baseball.” [via]

Roy Disney was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt Disney founded. At the time of his death he was a shareholder (more than 16 million shares or about 1%), and served as a consultant for the company and Director Emeritus for the Board of Directors.

The family of the late Roy Disney has partnered with [Stanley] Gold, entrusting the man who runs the family investment firm to lead the charge for the Dodgers and try to restore prominent local ownership to the team.

The partnership was disclosed Saturday by a person familiar with the bid but not authorized to discuss it. Neither Gold nor any member of Roy Disney’s family would comment Saturday, spokesman Terry Fahn said.

With a star-studded and deep-pocketed roster of bidders that could feature the likes of Magic Johnson, Joe Torre, Mark Cuban and Peter O’Malley, outgoing owner Frank McCourt appears to believe the Dodgers can sell for at least $1.6 billion.[VIA LA Times]

Bonds, 47, was convicted in April of obstructing a grand jury’s doping investigation with an evasive answer during a December 2003 court appearance. He is the last of the defendants directly connected to the investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative to be sentenced.

The analysts, Bonds’ lawyers and the probation department all cite the sentences given to other sports figures convicted of similar charges stemming from the investigation as more appropriate guidelines to follow.

Prosecutors don’t agree however and are asking for a prison sentence of 15 months, telling the court that Bonds has never fully accepted responsibility for his actions.

“Bonds’ pervasive efforts to testify falsely, to mislead the grand jury, to dodge questions, and to simply refuse to answer questions in the grand jury makes his conduct worthy of a significant jail sentence,” prosecutors wrote to the court last week.

“Derek has girls stay with him at his apartment in New York, and then he gets them a car to take them home the next day. Waiting in his car is a gift basket containing signed Jeter memorabilia, usually a signed baseball,” the friend dished.
BOOBY PRIZES:Yankee batsman Derek Jeter, playing the field after a breakup, sends off his one-night lovers with a ride home — and a basket of signed memorabilia.

“This summer, he ended up hooking up with a girl who he had hooked up with once before, but Jeter seemed to have forgotten about the first time and gave her the same identical parting gift, a gift basket with a signed Derek Jeter baseball,” the pal said.

“He basically gave her the same gift twice because he’d forgotten hooking up with her the first time!”

Jeter, who fiercely guards his privacy to protect his All-American image and multimillion-dollar marketability, split with the gorgeous actress Kelly this summer and has been playing the field ever since. (Source NY Post)

Is it just me or is the giving a girl you just had a one night stand with a signed baseball that she can hock on eBay for thousands of dollars, just seem a bit too close to paying a girl for sex?