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Richie Rich
posted 10/2/2007 from
griddle.baseballtoaster.com
The NL has four different playoff teams from
last year. That's the first time that has happened
in either league since the three-division format was adopted.
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runs on some experimental software called Fairpole .
It's still under development. For more information, please visit
the Fairpole blog , or read the FAQ .
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An item in the Metromix section of the
Chicago Tribune says that filmmaker Ken Burns is hoping
to add an another chapter to the Berlin Alexanderplatz of baseball documentaries. (Actually, Fassbinder's film is shorter!)
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While the people at MLB.com seem to think
that they are listening to feedback about their enhanced
Gameday (similar to how cancer is enhanced cell growth), I don't think they are.
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After dutifully sitting through the entire 9-1 win
by Arizona over Los Angeles at Dodger Stadium, I
got to see the exquisite sight of the Diamondbacks leaving 16 runners on base and the Dodgers leaving 9.
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Double checking with official sources the catcher's interference
bell for the 2007 season has tolled 12 times
and twice for two batters and three times for two catchers (all indicated in bold)
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Tim Kurkjian, a longtime beat writer covering the
Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles as well as a
stint at Sports Illustrated and now a talking head for ESPN, has penned an autobiography of sorts Is This a Great Game, or What? And is this a great ...
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When you pick up a book about the
1934 St. Louis Cardinals, you should expect a lot
of stories about Dizzy Dean. And John Heidenry has a lot of those in his book, The Gashouse Gang. The book has the lengthy subtitle of How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, ...
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Page 172 Longest hitting streak, Minnesota Twins Ken
Landreaux, 31 games, 1980
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Thanks to the help of Sean Forman of
Baseball-Reference.com, I have a list of bases loaded catcher's
interferences since 1957. Magglio Ordonez had one last night against the Angels and there hadn't been one in that situation since ... April 19. Eric ...
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The Phillies beat the Cardinals Tuesday night in
St. Louis, 7-4 in 14 innings.
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I didn't see Game 2 of the Yankees-Indians
series, but from what I've read I believe this
is a photo of the creature in question. The creature has many names and you can read about them where I found the picture at Fly Angler's Online . You can also ...
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Reader Sam DC via the Farm Authority points
me to the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star which has a
story from Todd Jacobson about Frank Robinson being moved completely out of the Washington Nationals organization.
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I was going to try to summarize some
of what has been written over the potential move
of the MLB Extra Innings package to DirecTV exclusively (which has not yet been announced officially.)
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Maury Brown has more on the ongoing DirecTV/Extra
Innings saga.
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Tom Verducci of SI.com says that Barry Bonds
wanted options that would easily vest for 2008 because
he intends to play well into his mid-40s.
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According to an AP story, if JD Drew
doesn't play in a specified amount of games in
a 3-year period (500 from 2007-10 and 375 from 2008-10), then his 2011 salary would be deferred at 1% per year and the payouts would go out until 2030.
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You can read about them in this press
release from MLB. It's the first major rules change
since 1996.
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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin
Martin, disclosed in a letter to Sen. John Kerry,
that the FCC is investigating the ramifications of the proposed deal to move the MLB Extra Innings package to DirecTV.
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