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And Jesse Baumgartner of MLB.com must be his
sidekick. Take a look at these mind-bendingly denial-ridden snippets
from a piece Baumgartner wrote about Seattle's abysmal DH situation: Different approach at DH SEATTLE -- Most American League teams use ...
Remember when John Kruk, Steve Phillips, and Harold Reynolds used to do Baseball Tonight together? Those were halcyon days for FJM. It was a more innocent time: gas cost 20 cents a gallon, the iPhone was a wild, unsubstantiated idea I had in my head, and women didn't yet have the right to vote. This quote from Pirates manager John Russell reminded me of a particularly stupid night for Krukie, ...
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Paul Maholm
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Hey, writers. It's easy to get on our
good side. No need for invective, spittle, vitriol, or
cantakerosity. Just be a cool dude, acknowledge that everyone screws up sometimes, and fix things. Jeff Passan, covered here earlier, just did it : ...
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Mark this date down: July 20, 2008 .
Ken Griffey Jr. and Adam Dunn don't have the
best batting averages, but Reds manager Dusty Baker doesn't plan on doing anything different with the two sluggers when it comes to filling out a lineup card. NATIONAL ...
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The snap-billed mreetwass is a legendary creature with the
body of a unicorn, the tail of a griffin, the face of a Korean person, and the wings of a leprechaun (if a leprechaun had ...
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Follow-up on the Johan Santana nonsense below, in
re: wins : Twins general manager Bill Smith, on
Livan Hernandez, who improved to 10-6 with a 5.29 earned-run average with Saturday's victory over Texas: "I'll take the (10) wins. Who do you want, a ...
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I go to New York for five days
and Murray Chass starts a blog ? What the
hell is going on here? Let's cleanse our collective palate with a lime sorbet known as: Phil Rogers's Mid-Season Awards . Quick review: awards are meaningless, the criteria are ...
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I get it: math's not cool. There's no
social capital to be gained from knowing linear algebra
or Zeno's paradoxes or how to add. But come on: at a certain point some examples of Sports Math are simple enough that they should enter the realm of Sports ...
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We might as well get to this. Yes,
the first entry in Murray Chass' blog , a
blog written by a professional sportswriter and and semi-professional blogophobe, needs a little editing ("Whatever impact honmefield [sic] advantage has"). The most glaring ...
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But I feel like it's our duty to
report the following news: Murray Chass has started a
blog . It's about shodo , the ancient Japanese art of calligraphy. Well, not really. Primarily, so far it seems to be a blog about hating blogs. At least that's ...
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Rick Reilly, after Josh Hamilton's 28-homer first round
and all of the talk of Hamilton's apparently prophetic
dream that he would someday compete in the Derby at Yankee Stadium: It's a lousy night to be an atheist! It already seemed weird at the ...
Of course, I'm talking about the Sate Farm Home Run Derby and alternative post-grunge southern rockers 3 Doors Down. Gotcha! It turns out that combination is an unmitigated disaster! I was really talking about: Here's how it works: I supply the Gallimaufry, you get hammered. Shot clock violation! Let's kick it off with a tip from reader Zach G., who points us in the direction of ...
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Scott Miller
Jose Reyes
Adam Dunn
Alex Rodriguez
Skip Bayless
Dusty Baker
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Ah, sac bunting. While it is excessively polite
-- "Here, other team, take one of my precious
outs. No no -- I insist! Allow me to make it as easy as possible for you." -- it is also strategically numbskulled. If you took the idea of bunting and ...
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It's tough being Bill Plaschke these days. His
man Ol' Snakeskin Boots Colletti is running the underperforming
Dodgers, Pencilneck DePodesta having long been run out of town on a Plaschke-sharpened rail. Can Bill bring himself to admit that some of ...
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This is just amazing . Several of you
wrote in about this after seeing it on Joe
Posnanski's blog . It's a series of cartoons they play at the Trop now, apparently, in which Joe Maddon and some of the Rays players are superheros who are fighting an ...
Danny points us to our first-ever boxing article , in which author Kevin Iole makes the following insane comment about boxer Francisco Lorenzo, who apparently won a recent championship bout thanks to a little acting job at the end: Specifically, he won by disqualification with an acting job the likes of which haven’t been seen since Jack Nicholson in “As Good As It Gets” in 1997, but the ...
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Okay, so Buster Olney wrote a piece called " Yankees lack mystique of dynasty years ." Nothing shocking there; I wrote about it a little bit a couple of posts down. Something struck me, though, as I walked away from my computer. Did Olney really write that you could tell the difference between the dynasty Yankees and the current Yankees based on two close games in late June/early July against ...
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![Holy Conspiracy Theories, Green Lantern! [sic]](http://images.ballhype.com/uploads/photos_story/2008/07/03/holy_conspiracy_theories_green_lantern_sic.jpg)
Several people have now written in to suggest
that the reason Rick Reilly clumsily metaphor-ized "bad spending
habits" with "the Taco Bell Chihuahua" is because of a massive Chihuahua-related conspiracy that reaches the upper levels of Disney HQ. The ...
Jim Riggleman Has Superhero-Level Powers Of Self-Deception