Today, I came across a pleasant surprise - San Diego Padres front office assistant Paul DePodesta has a blog. You can find it over at http://itmightbedangerous.blogspot.com/. Apparently, he couldn't spring the extra $10 a year to register his own domain name and shed the "blogspot" tag. Hey, I'm   more...
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On Wednesday night the Braves hit 3 longballs off struggling righty Brett Myers; last night was an entirely different story. Cole Hamels, the true staff ace, shutdown the Braves for his first career shutout, spreading 4 hits and 2 walks over 9 frames with 6 k's lowering his era to 2.89. On the   more...
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As school children across the country are brushing up on a semester's-worth of learning for upcoming exams, and picking out what will soon be embarrassingly forgetful duds for the prom, GMT takes a look at high school yearbook shots that somehow seemed like a good idea to put on baseball cards.
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It may have taken him five tries but Greg Maddux achieved his 350th win Saturday night as the San Diego Padres defeated the Colorado Rockies 3-2 in San Diego.Maddux retired the Rockies on five pitches in the first and was helped in the fourth when Adrian Gonzalez hit a three run home run to score   more...
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As John Smoltz is recovering from his shoulder injury, he may call it quits after this season. So if his current teammate Tom Glavine and former teammate Greg Maddux decide to retire after this year as well, would this be the best Hall of Fame class ever?www.rawsportsblog.com
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Another rant from the Sports Muffin:Why do major league baseball teams insist on having one pitcher be labeled the "closer"? The Braves showed in their sweep of the Padres how effective a "closer by committee" system can be. Not once did the Braves use just one pitcher in the ninth inning to close   more...
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Maybe May will be a better month for Ryan Howard. With the game tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 8th, Howard hit a game winning home run to give the Phillies a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres. Howard also had a double earlier in the game that drove in a run. His two hits on the night rose his   more...
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Here's recollections of the man was part of organizations that won two divisional titles, nine league championships and four World Series over his more than a half-century in organized baseball. He started his career in 1939 in the minors, before spending time in the military. He was the long-time   more...
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San Francisco Giants "ace" pitcher Barry Zito is continuing to struggle in his second year with the team. This is something that is definitely a head scratcher as Zito was almost always on point in his days with the Oakland Athletics. Some argue its the money, but I don't buy that, players may   more...
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The number 350 may just be a number to Greg Maddux but it's a pretty huge number in the history of baseball.Each morning when I check on the status of my blog I look to see if there are any new incoming links and I check on just how many people are visiting. Sure it may be dumb and often the number   more...
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Two of the NL's finest went at it today, as Webb and Peavy toed the rubber in San Diego. The game went to the D-Backs and Webb, but the 2-1 game shows how good the race could become by September.
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In the kind of news that would never happen to me if I owned him, John Lackey returned and was terrific last night for the Angels.
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AccuScore analyst, and tortured Pirates fan, Tim Williams reviews the Dave Littlefield era, following the release of Matt Morris, the last of the blunders Littlefield was responsible for as the GM of the Pirates.
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Greg Maddux, the 42 year old future Hall of Famer, was denied his 350th career victory by a pitcher who was two years old when Maddux started his major league career in 1986. Cole Hamels, now 24 years old, proved to be, at least on this night, a better pitcher than Maddux in leading the Phillies to   more...
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In case you were wondering what Sarge Matthews did with his off day on Saturday since the Phillies game wasn't televised, well, let him tell you.
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