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How is Mike Mussina doing this?
At 39, a year removed from pitching like a washed-up old man headed for the end of his career, Mussina is pitching as well or better than anyone in the American League, and as well as he ever has.
Mussina is now 13-6 after 8 shutout innings in a 5-1 victory over Minnesota Wednesday. That’s tied for the major-league lead in victories. His 3.26 ERA is ...
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Mike Mussina
New York Yankees
You have to love Houston Astros GM Ed Wade - even with the Astros further out of first place than the Padres (Houston is 13 games back entering play on July 24th, San Diego is 12 1/2 out) and needing to leapfrog four teams in their own division to enter into Wild Card consideration, he was still willing to part with the team’s ninth-rated prospect (according to Baseball America) to ...
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San Diego Padres
Houston Astros
Ed Wade
Chad Reineke
Randy Wolf
It’s advice week here at the Bugs and Cranks Centre (located in Canada, note the spelling) for Astrophysiological Studies and Their Relationships to Sports (or the BCCASTRS for short). All 30 teams will get one piece of advice; one nugget, that if followed, will make this season so much less boring. A random sampling of B&C writers were polled and they supported the following ...
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Barry Bonds
Back in February, Ed Valentine and I got into a debate over who was better — Babe Ruth or The G-POPE Barry Bonds. In a four-part series with the help of WhatIfSports.com , Bugs & Cranks hopes to add new perspective to the debate….
The idea is to switch these two all-time greats in time — what if Bonds quantum leaped into Ruth’s place on the Red Sox and Yankees teams of the ...
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Babe Ruth
Barry Bonds
Red Sox 6, Mariners 3 (12)
WP: Papelbon (4-3) LP: Green (2-3) SV: Hansen (2)
HRs: BOS -None; SEA -Ibanez (14), Vidro (6)
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Mike Lowell rapped a two-run single immediately following center fielder Willie Bloomquist’s critical error in the top of the 12th, and Craig Hansen survived a bases loaded jam in the bottom of the inning to secure the Sox first road sweep of the ...
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Seattle Mariners
Boston Red Sox
With a 5-1 defeat at the hands of Twin Killer Mike Mussina this afternoon, the Twins were officially swept out of the grand old park in their final regular season trip to the Bronx. Which brings me to a crossroads — the baseball fan in me will miss Yankee Stadium dearly, while the Twins fan in me says — blow the freakin’ place up!
The Twins are one of the best teams in the ...
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Minnesota Twins
Yankee Stadium
Ron Gardenhire
Red Sox at Mariners
GM 3 of 3 4:40 ET @ Safeco Field
Buchholz (2-5, 5.88) vs. Hernandez (7-6, 2.95)
As the Sox attempt to sweep the Mariners and even their record on this road trip at 3-3, they got blindsided by a bit of bad news concerning enigmatic slugger Manny Ramirez: he will sit out the series finale with a ’sore knee’.
Saying he was “surprised” to hear ...
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Manny Ramirez
Seattle Mariners
Clay Buchholz
Boston Red Sox
My name is Spencer. I cover the Jays for Bugs and Cranks, this kick-ass baseball site. I’ve been meaning to write you for a while and just never got around to it. Until now.
I wanted to congratulate you on the astute move of leaving Adam Lind in the minors to start the year while left field was being manned by a rotation of Shannon Stewart, Matt Stairs and the “Can’t ...
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J.P. Ricciardi
Toronto Blue Jays
SI.com reported today that, during the all-star break last week, Hank Steinbrenner gave Yankee GM Brian Cashman the thumbs-up to deal whatever prospects he needs to deal before the trade deadline.
And you just knew Bugs and Cranks would get the inside dope. Here, then, we present the transcript of the meeting between the Yankees’ managing partner and his number-one baseball guy.
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Brian Cashman
Hank Steinbrenner
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
CF Taveras
2B Baker
RF Holliday
1B Atkins
C Iannetta
RF Hawpe
SS Tulowitzki
3B Stewart
That’s the line-up Clint Hurdle has written in each of the last three days — save for Clint Barmes at short on Sunday.
It’s also the line-up I’d like to see written in this afternoon, Friday evening in ...
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Todd Helton
Ian Stewart
Colorado Rockies
Chris Iannetta
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Sox 4, Mariners 2 WP: Matsuzaka (11-1) LP:
Dickey (2-5) SV: Papelbon (30) HRs: BOS- Drew (18);
SEA- None Summary: Daisule Matsuzaka won his 11th game with another solid start, and J.D. Drew got the offense going early with a first inning home ...
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bradley12
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All the money in the world doesn't make
up for the fact that the Mets continue to
waste first class pitching by Johan Santana.
ESPN’s Mike Tirico: Josh Hamilton is a coward and “kind of an asshole.” (kind of?) [ TIRICOsuave ]
“One of the worst defeats in [New York Mets] regular season history.” (slight overreaction?) [ METSlifers ]
Devil Ray All-Star Dioner “The Fat Catcher” Navarro is immortalized with his very own Rayshead shirt. (I still want a Shitske #32.) [ ...
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Josh Hamilton
Mike Tirico
Alex Rodriguez
Tampa Bay Rays
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A no-hitter! It’s a no-hitter for Kyle Farnsworth ! Sort of.
The New York Yankee reliever pitched a perfect 8th inning last night, and has now retired 27 hitters (9 innings worth, of course), without allowing a hit.
Farnsworth, amazingly, doesn’t even have the longest hitless streak in the Yankee bullpen. Edwar Ramirez has retired 29 batters without surrendering a hit.
Who ...
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Kyle Farnsworth
Edwar Ramirez
Joba Chamberlain
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Bill Hall has rediscovered his ability to hit
righties. After hitting the go-ahead home run to bring
the Crew their sixth straight win (and their fifth straight road win) Tuesday night, Bill Hall told FSN Wisconsin’s Trenni Kusnierek that he ...
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I swear the following is a true story.
Tuesday night I found myself at historic Shea Stadium,
and this was by far the most entertaining quote of the night: So, this isn’t the last game at Shea Stadium, is it? Now, granted, this was ...
The trade winds are swirling in St. Louis as the July 31st deadline looms, and although the Cardinals have shocked the baseball world with their performance this season, there are some glaring weaknesses. No one is saying this team isn’t resilient, but they aren’t dominant either. Wins sometimes tend to seem more miraculous than deserved and the competition within the division has ...
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St. Louis Cardinals
Matt Holliday
Jason Bay
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theandswer
posted 33 hours ago from
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Omar Vizquel sings "Broadway." As you might expect,
it's pretty awful.
The D-backs addressed one of their needs today, by trading for Nationals’ closer Jon Rauch in exchange for 2B/prospect Emilio Bonifacio .
Besides providing some immediate relief to the taxed bullpen, it is difficult to see what this accomplishes. There is still a glaring hole in the outfield and the D-backs dumped one of their few promising young prospects that could have been used ...
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Arizona Diamondbacks
The Braves, to paraphrase former Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green, are not who we thought they were.
We thought they were rock-steady John Smoltz and uninjurable Tom Glavine. Two tickets to the DL took care of that.
We thought they were young and unflappable budding star Jeff Francoeur. He’s hitting .234 on the season, and was sent to AA Mississippi for a few days. Color him ...
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Dice-K, Drew combine to sink Ms