The Golden Sombrero thanks Bobby Cox for everything that he has done for baseball during his legendary, 51-year career.

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The Golden Sombrero presents MLB Look-alikes: Geoff Jenkins and Brett Favre

On Monday night, Major League Baseball and TBS had another blatant slip up in censorship…and for that we are forever grateful.  Over the weekend it was the entire Texas Rangers team cursing with excitement after a game-changing Michael Young home run; on Sunday night it was a leaping Tim Lincecum, rejoicing after Brooks Conrad’s third error of the game.

Tonight, it was the Atlanta Braves Game 4 starting pitcher, Derek Lowe, that joined a growing list of players that have been heard(and observed) dropping a crisp “F-Bomb” during the 2010 postseason.

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Apparently former MLB pitcher Mike Remlinger is taking a page out of Lenny Dykstra’s manifesto on financial planning.  The Chicago Tribune reports that Remlinger, a former Chicago Cubs pitcher who retired in 2005, is auctioning off the barrel of Sammy Sosa’s corked bat from June 3, 2003.

Remlinger, who had been secretly holding onto the wooden shard since that memorable June night, says that he attempted contacting Sosa regarding his interest in the bat but never heard back from the former Cubs slugger or his agent.

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First off, I’d like to issue a genuine thank you to Major League Baseball for not even considering that players might be swearing in the dugout after a game-changing play.  Over the weekend, I witnessed two incredibly audible, profanity filled moments in the dugout –one after Michael Young’s 3-R HR and the other after Brooks Conrad’s 3rd error– that made me wonder who the crack squad of geniuses working in the MLB production room really are, and what in the hell they are actually doing in there.  Clearly they are not screening any of the replays before airing them, and they are definitely not adjusting to the hyper-sensitive mics near the dugout.

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