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Phillies 4, Nationals 0 : I'm beginning to think that the Nats have been secretly hired by Major League Baseball to be professional wrestling-style " jobbers " a la Iron Mike Sharpe or S.D. "Special Delivery" Jones. Sure, they look like a baseball team -- they have the uniform and know a few moves and things -- but ultimately their job is to "sell" the moves of the big stars. Really good ...
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Many of us have farted around with this idea in the past, but John Donovan takes a crack at what the big four Olympic baseball teams (Japan, U.S., Cuba, D.R.) would look like if major leaguers were in Beijing . Setting aside the fact that (a) the Cubans would in no way allow defectors to play for their team; (b) the Dominicans would be crazy to put Soriano at second base; (c) David Ortiz ...
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John Donovan
Alfonso Soriano
David Ortiz
Milton Bradley
I love reading the little neighborhood papers that run down all of the recently reported crimes. I live in a suburb full of awful white people, so eight out of every ten of these things in my local weekly involve golf clubs stolen from open garages. Amazingly, way more of these can be found during the spring golf-club purchasing season. Hmmm. Anyway, the Philadelphia-area RoxReview runs one of ...
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Atlanta Braves
Brad Lidge
Last night was Gay Community Night at Citizens Bank Park . It was quite a success in that (a) event organizers reported that they sold more promotional tickets for last night's game than were originally allotted; and (b) there was no repeat of the ugliness from previous years . Best part? For the first time in the event's six-year history, the Phillies actually won the game: I’m not sure if ...
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Philadelphia Phillies
Citizens Bank Park
The Reds issued a letter to their fans yesterday , telling them to hold tight, The Plan is working, glory is right around the corner, etc. The Sporting News' Chris Mottram notes, however, that this is not the first time they've done that .
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The L.A. Times' Keith Thursby continues his walk down L.A. baseball's memory lane, this time with a feature on Bo Belinsky . Belinsky had a no hitter as a rookie in 1962, but then became far more notable for carousing and carrying on with sex kittens like Mamie Van Doren, Ann Margaret, Connie Stevens, and Tina Louise. Upshot: it was pretty darn good to be Bo Belinsky for a while. But only a ...
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If the seven bucks it normally costs you to get into a Charlotte Knights baseball game is just too steep in these troubled economic times, you're in luck. In exchange for your precious bodily fluids , the Knights will let you in for free : The Charlotte Knights present American Red Cross Golf Visor Night on Friday, August 22. The first 1,500 fans will receive a Knights golf visor courtesy ...
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Umpires boycotted a conference call with Major League Baseball regarding instant replay yesterday: Umpires say they're unhappy that replay equipment is being installed away from the field in nearly all major league ballparks and say MLB wants to limit the number of umpires allowed to review replay monitors. They also aren't pleased that MLB wants them to discuss the replays with umpire ...
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Rays 4, Angels 2 : Should Angels' fans worry that their team has lost five of six? Maybe. Maybe there's something to that whole notion of "edge" and being tested by a fight for a playoff spot. The Angels are up by around 15 games, and given how poorly the A's are playing and how badly the Rangers' loss of Ian Kinsler is going to hurt them, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that LAA ...
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Remember that umpire/sex offender from Connecticut who was getting a lifetime achievement award ? Not so much .
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After years of treading creative water, someone at Sports Illustrated finally got a clue and hired the best there is. From Posnanski : Starting next week, SportsIllustrated.com — si.com, for short — will be reprinting this blog. Don’t even ask how that happened. And, even more thrilling, starting next week I will write one column a week for the Sports Illustrated dot-com — I believe it will ...
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Newsday's Wallace Matthews lays into the Yankees for
their treatment of Joe Torre last year and notes
just how lucky Torre is to be out of New York: Today, Torre's Dodgers sit atop the NL West in a first-place tie with the Arizona Diamondbacks. And ...
The NYT's Joe Lapointe has a very favorable impression of the Pirates' ballpark : . . . a model of intelligent design. The seats in the corners of the field, by the foul poles, are tilted toward the infield. In the left field corner, there are four standing tiers where people can watch the game as if on balconies. Beyond the outfield fences, the background vista is breathtaking, with the ...
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Roberto Clemente
The Rangers' Ian Kinsler is having a fabulous season, but now it's probably going to end because, of all things, a sports hernia: A sports hernia occurs when there is a weakening of the muscles or tendons of the lower abdominal wall. It occurs in the same area as a traditional abdominal hernia, but there is often no visible pouch or bulge. It is a more common injury among hockey players. He ...
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It's still not confirmed if it's happening or
not , but I'll guess it is. I'm reminded
of what happened the last time Maddux was traded to L.A. His first game in a Dodger uniform was on the road against the Reds on August 3, 2006 , and I was there. ...
Brewers 9, Astros 3 : CC Sabathia pitched really well through seven, at which time he left the game having thrown 101 pitches and his team sporting a safe 7-2 lead. Ha ha! Just kidding. Ned Yost continues to abuse his rental, sending him back out there for two more innings and 29 more pitches on a night any common mopup man would have done the trick. In other news, Ryan Braun left the game ...
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Sorry for the slow day folks. A perfect storm of legal responsibilities and, let's face it, nothing really pressing on the baseball wire forced me to act like a responsible law talkin' guy this afternoon. I'll do my best to avoid such a troublesome adherence to priorities in the future.
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The previous post has me thinking about the best and worst seats in which I've ever had the fortune or misfortune to sit. The best? Either right behind home plate or first row, upper deck, first base line at Tiger Stadium. The worst: first base line, Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. It was October 3, 1993 , and the White Sox were in town for the last baseball game ever played in the old ...
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USA Today is counting down what it and its readers consider to be "the 10 Best Seats in Baseball," kicking things off with The Beach at Petco Park : • What you will see: Kids, kids and more kids. They are mostly toddlers, playing in the sand with their plastic shovels and pails, and occasionally throwing around beach balls. The lead usher will frequently play "Simon Says" during the game ...
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Jim Bowden expounds at length on the negotiations that led to the Nationals not signing Aaron Crow, their first round pick. I realize negotiations are complicated pursuits in which people say and do all manner of silly, inconsistent things, but this made me chuckle: So we then moved our position, we gave them a final offer at 10:30 p.m. last night, we said here's a final take-it-or-leave-it ...
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