We like the sound of this . . . a giant foam thumbs up to Frank Coffey and his eTrueSports Goodfellas for making our end-of-September:

MLB Demands Rays Drop Remaining Games Selig: “We Want The Red Sox To Win The East”; Manager Joe Maddon “Irritated”

New York – MLB Commissioner Bud Selig announced that baseball has requested that the Tampa Bay Rays “play ball” and lose their remaining 8 games. “We want the Red Sox to win,” said Selig, who after congratulating the Rays for losing on Sunday to the Twins cautioned the club to make certain all losses were  “plausible.” 
“No one – including their fans – gives a crap about Tampa Bay,” explained …read more

The fallout continues for Yanks spikemaster Shelley Duncan. The fine and three-game suspension he received for the Yankees-Rays almost-fistfight was just the beginning.
See, just when you think every angle of a story has been covered, Frank Coffey and his eTrueSports Goodfellas prove once again that they dig deeper than any other news organization. (As for what they dig—who are we to judge?)
New York – Bob Watson, MLB’s dean of discipline, has handed Shelley Duncan an additional punishment resulting from last week’s Yankee-Tampa Rays flareup, ordering the Yankee first baseman to write, “I will not slide into second base with my spikes high,” 500 times on college-ruled paper.
“Bummer,” said a subdued …read more

You know us. Whenever there’s a story that even remotely casts the New York Yankees in a bad light, we’re all over it like the fawning media and post-Super Bowl Eli Manning.
That being said, we feel compelled to post this follow-up on yesterday’s Yanks-Rays brawl.
Seems Tampa Bay GM Joe Maddon thinks those Damn Yankees are also Dirty Yankees:
“What you saw today was the definition of a dirty play. There’s no room for that in our game. It’s contemptible. It’s wrong. It’s borderline criminal. I can’t believe they did that.”
Can you believe those jerks? What’s wrong with them? Why they should—oh …read more