With two huge deals in the National League Central this past week, the trade deadline has gotten some much earlier hype than it usually does.  Both the Sabathia and the Harden trades have a possibility to become horrible for any of the teams involved?the Brewers miss the playoffs, Sabathia   more...
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by A.J.from 105.9 The XSo far this Pirates season hasn't exactly incited the fever of a pennant race, but at least the Bucs have been flirting with that ever-elusive .500 mark for awhile now. As far as Pittsburgh baseball goes, that's kind of like a pennant race. A sad and demented pennant race,   more...
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Names are surfacing from around the league. It's getting closer to the trade deadline, and teams are shuffling to make a move. I don't expect any big deals to get done, but there sure are some big names that are popping up.
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I've not often given Jim Hendry credit over the last 5 or 6 years.  There have been a lot of things to complain about, but like anyone else, Jim Hendry has his strengths and weaknesses.  One of the strengths is making trades as he did last night for Rich Harden.  I'm not going to   more...
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From the bottom of the 5th inning in tonight's Red Sox/Indians game. Lofton dropped his bat on what he thought was ball four, but what turned out to be strike one.Beckett talks smack. Everyone overreacts.
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With names like Mark Teixeira, Jermaine Dye, Troy Glaus, and Dontrelle Willis the MLB trade rumor central is a one stop shop to boredville. Teams are looking for the backend guy, or the off the bench, ummmm boring. But, here is a list of those players and the teams that are interested in them.
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****The GNUru yet again provides fantasy baseball lineup advice to those in weekly leagues. Included are the GNUru's hot hitters and pitchers, in addition to those pitcher schedule to make 2 starts in Fantasy Week 14****
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BaseballHQ takes a hard look at some of the question marks that surround speed demons from around the league. Knowing about Carl Crawford will let you survive round 1 of your draft, this list discusses the stolen base threats that will appear in the second half of your draft.
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Two weeks ago, with baseball season fast approaching, I thought we needed to do something special to kick off the 2007 campaign. We wanted to do something big, something lasting and something involving other members of this loosely-connected fraternity we call the sports blogosphere. With that in   more...
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I managed to dig up the clip from the 2005 season when Josh Beckett ran into the same incident with Kenny Lofton. This time Lofton was with the Phillies. Beckett's quote after that 2005 game…"Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy," he said. "It gets back to wasted energy. I need to just focus on the   more...
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"All I can say is, Sheffield knows what he's talking about. That's all I'm going to say," Lofton told the AP.In an interview, Sheffield had accused the Yankees manager Joe Torre of treating his white players with more respect than his black players...among other controversial remarks.
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To those who celebrate it, I wish to wish you a Merry Christmas. Onward to the surprising National League preview. All the talk last year about a far inferior National League all but made the ALCS the official World Series. But Those feisty St. Louis Cardinals surprised the world and won the   more...
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Justin Morneau won the AL MVP, but wasn't picked to be on the 2006 AL All-Star team. So how many times has the MVP not been an All-Star?Only 10 times, since the inception of the game in 1933.Who are those players, and why weren't they picked as All-Stars in the seasons they were MVPs? Follow the   more...
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Kenny Lofton is headed back to the city where he has had the best seasons of his career. That city is Cleveland. Lofton is batting .303 along with 21 stolen bases. He is still one of the fastest players in the league even though he is in his 16th season. Lofton has 620 career stolen bases and is   more...

Complete video of the Josh Beckett-Kenny Lofton dustup last night, including video of the incident itself, video of the home plate ump mic'ed up when he stepped between them, and video of the previous altercation between the two back in 2005.
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