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Terry Pluto defends voting Joe Maddon No. 2 for AL Manager of the Year
Published 19 days ago at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
... in contention after losing Santana, etc. I had no idea how anyone else was voting. I certainly didn’t set out to stiff Joe by being the lone voice not to have him No. 1.” Pluto said, “I’m glad Joe won. Clearly after what he did in the playoffs, he deserves it. It’s just how it is.” Pluto said he’s trying to respond to every email he’s received, which have included a one-word, “Idiot,” and even some from fans in Cleveland who love his work but were wowed by his vote. Thanks to sm .

DRB On XM Radio This Saturday
Published 3/21/2008 by Matt Bishoff <info@draysbay.com> at DRaysBay
I will be interviewed on MLB Home Plate on XM Radio Channel 175 with Jeff Joyce this Saturday at 6:05pm. I'll be on for about 15 minutes and will be chatting about current storylines with the Rays. If you have XM tune in and check it out. Feel free to make fun of me on here afterwards. ...

Bish on XM Radio
Published 3/21/2008 by Matt Bishoff at No Bias Baseball
... I will be interviewed on MLB Home Plate on XM Radio Channel 175 with Jeff Joyce this Saturday at 6:05pm. I'll be on for about 15 minutes and will be chatting about current storylines with the Rays. If you have XM tune in and check it out. ...

Mo: The Sox? Nah........
Published 2/25/2007 by Steve Lombardi at WasWatching.com
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"Say it Ain't So": MLB DirecTV deal Update
Published 1/28/2007 by Itsmetsforme at It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations
... In addition to this problem, Susan Mullen on her blog, raises some pertinent points that I hadn't thought off, particularly the poor quality of Direct tv, and that the company might go belly up before the contract pays off. The DirecTV folks are obviously betting that switching to their service on account of their near-monopoly on national baseball will mean new customers who will have to depend on DirecTV for all their television needs. But if customers are dissatisfied with the quality and reliability of Direct TV in the first place, will they really mortgage their entire home entertainment experience on a inferior service, especially if they have already invested time and energy in trying out both services? ...

Uribe's court date moved to January 5th
Published 1/5/2007 by The Cheat at South Side Sox
It's telling that the best English language coverage of the Juan Uribe incident has routinely come from a blogspot domain. The local outlets just don't seem to care. Just yesterday, I took Mike North to task for neglecting to ask Kenny Williams about the situation 24 hours after Uribe's scheduled court date. (I didn't expect that type of questioning from North, who instead tried to get Williams to trash departing or current players not named Podsednik.) ...