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Yankees Can Make the Playoffs, Just Don’t Bet On It
The Yankees have had a snake bitten season that has seen many of there most valuable players go down for significant portions of there last year in the new, old Yankee stadium. Jorge Posada, the teams spark plug of a catcher has been felled by a bad shoulder that first effected his defense and then got [...]
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August 21, 2008
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Jim Bowden, Washington Nats GM, Being Pushed Out the Door?
Jim Bowden may be on the way out. His tenure as nationals GM has been filled with embarrassing moments off the field. The famous bitch-slapping incident with his girlfriend. Guess which one of the two ended up being the bitch? The poor deals made for Kearns, the dearly departed , Felipe “Flop” Lopez and Paul [...]
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August 09, 2008
Washington Nationals Suffering From Impatience at the Plate
The Washington Nationals batting coach, Lenny Harris, has been under the microscope this season. The Nats have the worse record in the NL and it is due in large part to their poor plate discipline.Harris who took over for Kevin Mitchell in the middle of the 2007 season (Mitchell has had problems with alcohol abuse) [...]
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August 05, 2008
Ivan Rodriguez Traded to the Yankees
Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez is a Yankee. Reports are out today the Yankees have acquired Detroit Tigers catcher Ivan Rodriguez in a trade for reliever Kyle Farnsworth.The Yankees have upgraded the catcher position big time. No offense to Jose Molina of the fabulous catching Molinas , but Jose he is no I-Rod.
Molina is a fine defensive catcher but [...]
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July 30, 2008
Jerry Manuel Leads Mets Into First
Hard to believe isn’t it? An interim manager perhaps giving a highly paid team the boost that they needed.
The Mets have won 10 in a row and Jerry Manuel is 18-9 overall as their manager.
Perhaps the argument can still be made that Willie Randolph was not the problem and that the turn around was just a matter [...]
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July 18, 2008
Evict the Nationals! Put Their Bats and Balls on the Street!
The Lerners are not paying rent. They need to be evicted. The slime-balls are playing DC for fools.They have the worst team in MLB, playing in the newest stadium and they have the audacity to want the city to pay them $100,000 a day because their office were not ready on time, even though they [...]
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July 15, 2008
Sidney Ponson’s Second Chance at a Second Chance
Yankees win in the tenth 2-1 over the Rays.
Ponson had a strong outing today after a shaky start against his former team the Rangers.
His line today was six innings pitched, allowing five hits, two walks and his only run allowed was on a homer by Carlos Pena in the sixth inning. This shot tied the [...]
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July 09, 2008
The Rays, With Help From Bud Selig, Be-Devil the AL East
The Tampa Bay Rays continue to fascinated all of baseball by opening up a lead In the AL East on the mighty BoSox and the perennially powerful New York Yankees. Statistically the Rays are very good but there overall stats don’t add up to a 55-33 record. They only lead in one category and that [...]
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July 07, 2008
Kevin Slowey: Diamond Gem
Kevin Slowey is Hot! Slowey is turning it on at the right time for fantasy owners. He has won three of his last four starts with a no decision in a game that the Twins won late.In his last start he pitched a complete game shutout against the Brewers. In that game he struck out [...]
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July 02, 2008
CBS 2 Video of Minaya on Why He Fired Randolph
It was odd perhaps. It was classless perhaps, but how would you have fired a guy who has lead a team that has obviously under performed? How long were they supposed to wait?
The Mets are a huge disappointment to their fans and very importantly to its owners. Rarely has a team shelled out so much $$$ to [...]
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June 18, 2008
Major League Baseball Uses Licensing Bat on Little Leaguers
MLB trying their best to turn off Little Leaguers.
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June 03, 2008
A’s and Sawx Show Japan How It Is Done
Emil Brown redeemed himself today. After costing his new team the game yesterday with a boner base running move (way to show the Japanese how the Big Leaguers play the game, ditto Manny "The Statue" Ramirez) he smoked a three run homer to lead the A's to a 5-1 win.
Manny spanked a homer today and [.....
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April 20, 2008
Washington Nats News: From Flopez to Flop Made EZ
Felipe Lopez (.308/.352/.660) the over-priced Bowden pick up from his beloved Reds is officially a Flop. That is flop with a capital "F"!He has probably lost his starting position and may be replaced by Ron Belliard at 2B.When told that he may have to sit the $4.9M a year weenie had this to say.
R...
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April 20, 2008
Is Stealing Bases Worth the Risk? The Debate Rages
As a child my first baseball heros were Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, and Maury Wills. I was absolutely in love with the dream of hitting homers, making great stops defensively but above all else the glory of sliding in the dirt and then ceremonious dusting off of the uniform after the ump had called t...
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April 11, 2008
Bay Area Teams Trim Payrolls for 2008
The Bay area has seen a precipitous drop in MLB salaries as both franchises are trimming payrolls and probably wins for the 2008 season. The San Francisco Giants sans Barry Bonds has seen their 2007 team salary decrease from $90,219.056 to the relatively paltry $76,594,500.
The Oakland A's (a ?...
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April 05, 2008
The San Francisco Giants and Oakland A’s Have Trimmed Payrolls For 2008
The Bay area has seen a precipitous drop in MLB salaries as both franchises are trimming payrolls and probably wins for the 2008 season. The San Francisco Giants sans Barry Bonds has seen their 2007 team salary decrease from $90,219.056 to the relatively paltry $76,594,500.
The Oakland A’s...
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April 04, 2008
Carrot League Baseball Score: Tea Totallers 96 Gashouse Gorillas 95
Bugs Bunny the ultimate utility player...
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March 27, 2008
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