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fackyouk.blogspot.com - 6 hours ago
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A special Saturday good morning to you Fackers.
College Gameday kicks off in 60 minutes from Tucson,
where Arizona hosts Oregon in match up of two teams still alive in what's a relatively wide open Pac-10. The show is starting at 8 AM local time and the game starts at 6 PM local time. It's going ...
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College Football Saturday: Week 12
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fackyouk.blogspot.com - 24 hours ago
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The work week is winding down, but there's
one thing you should probably do before you attempt
to sneak out of the office early. Print off a copy of the new e-Ticket over at ESPN.com by Patrick Hruby. It's 12,000 words and once printed out turns into a healthy 16 pages of prime weekend reading ...
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Something To Read Over The Weekend
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 27 hours ago
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In a post yesterday I advocated against signing
Aroldis Chapman mainly based on historical reasons and a
risk vs. reward point of view. I didn't offer anything in the way of evaluating Chapman's skill set, mainly because very little is known about it - at least very little that is reliable. ...
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More On Chapman
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 30 hours ago
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Good morning, Fackers. In the wake of the
senior circuit Cy Young, like the AL version, being
awarded to a pitcher not on the basis of his won-lost record but on the quality and number of his innings pitched, Tyler Kepner is again half right. As Matt pointed out on Wednesday, Kepner was ...
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WHIP, FIP & The WAR On Wins
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 46 hours ago
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The Yankeeist has an interview with Alex Belth
and Cliff Corcoran from Bronx Banter . It delves
into the very beginnings of the Yankee blogosphere and gives some insight into the Banter Crew that you can't find anywhere else. Big League Stew takes an in-depth look at BABIP . A victory for ...
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Everybody Do The Link Around
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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First up, via MLBTR , Bob Nightengale throws
out one that's new to me : Not so
quietly anymore, apparently. Even if we assume that Nightengale's sources are correct and that Brian Cashman has let other GM's know that Swisher is available for the right package (which every player essentially ...
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Two More Yankee Rumors We're Not Buying
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Prior to the start 1995 season, the Los
Angeles Dodgers signed Hideo Nomo, who had "retired" from
his Japanese club in order to become a free agent. Nomo became just the second Japanese native to play in the Major Leagues and the first in more than thirty years. Nomo had a wildly successful ...
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The Cuban Pitcher Crisis
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Good morning Fackers. Today is the last morning
of the first stage of the Hot Stove season.
As of midnight tonight, teams lose their window of exclusivity to negotiate with their free agents. As we explored earlier this week, there likely won't be much free agent movement for another week and a ...
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The Calm Before The Storm
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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One of my favorite people in Yankee history
is Billy Martin . He was serving his fourth
stint as Yankee manager when I attended my first Major League game , and was in his fifth and final go-round when I began following the team in earnest. In between, I can recall watching the ceremony on WPIX ...
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He Came Dancing Across The Water
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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The clinching game of the World Series as
you've never seen it before (h/t Bronx Banter ):
This was shot and compiled by photographer Robert Caplin and here is what he had to do to put it together : This was probably one of the most tiring and time-consuming processes I've undertaken with ...
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Game Six In Three And A Half Minutes
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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Yesterday was a banner day for the stats
community. Zack Greinke rightly won the American League Cy
Young Award, and did so in convincing fashion, sparing us all a host of indignant rants about how the voters got it all wrong again for an award that the stats community clearly states doesn't ...
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Does Zack Greinke Really Understand FIP?
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 3 days ago
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Good morning Fackers. Yesterday the Yankees declined their
$1.25M 2010 option on pitcher Sergio Mitre . However,
this does not necessarily spell the end of Mitre's time with the Yankees. He has not accumulated enough service time to be eligible for free agency, so the Yankees can retain his ...
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Yanks Decline Option On Mitre
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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One of the most insightful things I've ever
read about sports was written by someone who was
never thought of as a "sports writer". It was tucked away behind wandering but focused first-person accounts of the Maine Lobster Festival and Adult Video News Awards , an in-depth look at conservative ...
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An Athlete's Memoir David Foster Wallace Might Have Enjoyed
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Keep this in mind next time you hear
the Fenway Faithful start to get lippy: New York
Yankees team ownership revealed Tuesday that the phrase "Yankees suck," one of the most popular chants in sports, was trademarked by the 27-time World Series champions prior to the 1996 season, a business ...
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The Yankees Business Acumen Knows No Bounds
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Good morning Fackers. We're more than halfway through
November. The free agency signing period opens in full
this Friday. However, since the deadline for teams to offer their own free agents arbitration isn't until December 1st, it's unlikely that we'll see any signings before then. Teams that ...
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Arbitration For Damon?
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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On the heels of Manny Pacquiao's 12th round
TKO against Miguel Cotto that took place in the
wee hours of this past Sunday morning, the New York Times wonders if the first boxing match in the New Yankee Stadium could be the biggest fight boxing has seen in quite some time : With the undefeated ...
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Could Pacquaio & Mayweather Fight At Yankee Stadium?
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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What's up Fackers? It's been a while, so
most of you probably have never seen one of
my posts and the rest have probably forgotten about me - if so, no hard feelings. I haven't written anything here in quite a long time but did lend some legal insights into this post back in May . Before that, I ...
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Let Me Re-Introduce Myself...
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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Good morning, Fackers. Typically, the bye week during
the NFL season is a welcome break for a
team, but as much for the fans. A Sunday after the baseball season has concluded and without your NFL team in action seems kind of empty and aimless. However, that extra healing and preparation time is ...
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Giants Figure Out A Way To Win: Do Nothing
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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We don't talk too much about the boxing
here at Fack Youk but the 145 lb bout
between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto tonight couldn't fall more squarely in our wheelhouse. The photo about was taken at the press conference for the fight held at Yankee Stadium and we've discussed both ...
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The Fight Tonight: Pacquiao vs. Cotto
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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A special Saturday good morning Fackers. Gameday kicks
off in an hour, coming from Fort Worth this
week where Utah takes on TCU later tonight. The winner of that game almost assuredly takes the Mountain West, and it's a game that pits the #16 team in the BCS against the currently undefeated #4 ...
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College Football Saturday: Week 11
