CAL RIPKEN JR. RUMORS
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Cal Ripken Jr!World Series? World Schmeries. If you want to get the youth fired up about books in this town you call in the big guns. Not some little podunk baseball team like the Cardinals. We've got a serious reading problem in St. Louis (see Matheny's bookshelf below) and we need a warrior to fight the fight for reading over the long-haul.Cal Ripken Jr. knows something...
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DEPT. OF NO THANKS
Ripken Insists His Meat Will 'Melt In Your Mouth'
For Cal Ripken Jr., retirement isn’t all about being rumored to be a Republican candidate for Senate every few. That’s a part of it, of course, but entrepreneurship is a part of it, too. To wit, from what is basically just a press release that appeared in the Baltimore Sun:
Cal Ripken Jr. is teaming with Long Valley, N.J.-based Florio Sports LLC to sell a beef jerky...
Via Can't Stop The Bleeding
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September 30, 2010
Orioles' Owner Doesn't Want Cal Ripken's Help
This should go well with Orioles fans — what’s left of them. Baltimore hasn’t had a winning season since 1997. They’ve lost eight in a row and they’re off to a 1-10 start. You would think a team like that would be looking for help wherever they can get it. That is unless you have an egotistical owner like Peter Angelos who has destroyed baseball in Baltimore...
Via Larry Brown Sports
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April 17, 2010
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April 17, 2010
Arch Criminals Make Off With Baltimore's Only Memory Of Cal Ripken Jr.
How bad has crime become in Baltimore now that The Wire is off the air? Hooligans pilfered a three-foot high aluminum number "8" from in front Camden Yards last week. Now no one in the city can count to nine. Sadly, this was the only Oriole artifact anywhere in the area that had any resale value. (As you can see in this pre-desecration picture, there has to be at least...
Via Deadspin
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September 15, 2009
Eighteen Games? Sounds Good To Me...
Nick Eatman of NFL.com, gave his opinion on the recent proposal by the NFL commissioner that we expand the regular season from the current 16 games to 17 or 18 games instead.
Here is what Eatman wrote:
As a fan, you should also realize that more games for the players, results in more money for the players. More money to the players, should mean higher ticket prices for the fans...
Via Lone Star Struck
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March 27, 2009
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March 27, 2009
Cal Ripken Jr. Immortalized in Thumbtacks
Courtesy of the outstanding Camden Chat blog, here?s a guy recreating a photo of Cal Ripken Jr. using thumbtacks. Oddly enough, tacks are the same way that Peter Angelos decides on contract extensions, after seeing how long prized free agents can walk on them before finally reaching a deal.
But enough about that. Enjoy the time-elapsed [...]
Via Stet Sports Blog
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January 26, 2009
MLB Athlete Number 4 - Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse", is the best MLB athlete to ever wear the jersey number 4. Given the chance to play every day, he proved to be the model of durability and one of the best hitters that the game has ever seen, at any level.Gehrig began playing for the Yankees in 1923, at the age of ...
Via Best Athletes By The Numbers
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November 27, 2008
Henry Paulson: "Your old card collection is not a suitable bailout plan."
The Wall Street Journal has confirmed what we all pretty much suspected: any sports cards bought over the past 30 years are virtually worthless:
"'What people need to understand is that the price guides list the retail price, and the amount a dealer would pay would be much smaller,' Mr. O'Connell says. For vintage cards---those from before 1980---a dealer might pay...
Via The Scores Report
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November 05, 2008
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November 05, 2008
Hall of Fame Electees Deserving
The Hall of Fame got it right. In a vote with so much tension and uncertainty, baseball's voters did the right thing by going with the sure things. With the black cloud hanging over Mark McGwire, a serious statement was made with the election of Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn, two guys we know are clean. Distracting their election would have been unfortunate.
Via Sportable
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January 09, 2007
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January 09, 2007
A Few Hall of Fame Cases
Major League Baseball released today its list of candidates for the 2007 Hall of Fame Class. While the likes of Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. might be shoe-ins, there is a long list of players who probably won't make the Hall this year. These are my cases for a few of these athletes.
Via Sportable
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November 28, 2006
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November 28, 2006
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