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Twaseball
Hey, I've started a Twitter account for this site - @churchofbasebal - because I want to go back to my original "daedalus" purpose with that account. Yes, it only has one L at the end because of the character limit. Today's tweets: Did you know? The NY Bankee$ interlocking logo was first ...
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The Reds weren't always a poorly managed team...
Doing a little research on the Negro Leagues. Night baseball was firmly entrenched in the Negro Leagues by the time the Reds decided to be the first MLB team to try it. The one man who deserves full credit for bringing lights to the majors is Larry MacPhail, a flamboyant baseball executive and ...
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Writing about Josh Gibson right now...
Why is it that it took me ten years to realize that the X-Files baseball episode "The Unnatural" was about Josh Gibson, and the alien in the character "Josh Exley" was a metaphor for the alienation black ballplayers felt for not being allowed to play Major League Baseball?
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“Oh God, no.”
Thus spake Walt Jocketty when asked if Votto could be part of a trade deal. Fewer words more beautiful have not been spoken. ___
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The name game
Was thinking about some of the funny names in baseball and thought I'd create a little game out of it. Players can be current or past. Answers are in the comments. A water management project completed. The ashes on one's head on Ash Wednesday. A canis lupus in heat. A blue colored bird's ...
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Rubbish
The Reds have taken out the garbage recently, getting rid of a lot of the roster fillers and all. However, the thing that's stinking up the rubbish bin is still stuck to the bottom, rotten, moldy, and emitting toxins into the air. Still, there's pleeeeenty of time to take a firehose to the bin. ...
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Realignment
Red Reporter has some suggestions about how to fix MLB's unlevel playing field. I really like that realignment idea. You could group it according to market size so it looks like this: American League AL Large Bankee$ Red Sox Angels Rangers AL Medium Tigers Indians Blue Jays Orioles White Sox ...
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In case you're interested...
The Bankee$ pukefest is going to be live somewhere on the interwebs. If you want to watch it, google it. I'm not helping anyone who wants to watch the Bankee$ celebrate their $200 million payroll. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. UGH. Oh, and Ramon Hernandez. Good move on the Reds part, I think. Opting for the ...
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Some baseball links, since I can't seem to find anything to write about
The Chub$ get the first openly gay MLB owner . Ok, that's the only link. But I thought it was important enough to share.
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And baseball is no longer an Olympic sport?
I found this cap for sale in Byblos, Lebanon.
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