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Guillen battling painful case of hemorrhoids; Fearless Dolsi impressing Leyland
There's a reason Carlos Guillen had a rough game -- including two errors -- Monday night at third base. "He can hardly move -- he's got hemorrhoids so bad," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Tuesday. "He's been playing with hemorrhoids that probably ...
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 ESPN - Sheffield has theory why fewer blacks play MLB
ESPN - Sheffield has theory why fewer blacks play MLB
The percentage of African-Americans playing Major League Baseball is at an all-time low and Gary Sheffield says he has a theory why that's the case. In an interview with GQ magazine that's currently on newsstands, the typically outspoken Tigers ...

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 The best of Gary Sheffield
The best of Gary Sheffield
By now, most of you are familiar with Sheff's bizarre GQ rant about the reason why there are so few blacks in baseball. "I called it years ago. What I called is that you're going to see more black faces, but there ain't no English going to be ...
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Sheffield: Yankees treat black players differently
No longer in New York, Gary Sheffield still speaks his mind. This time, he made explosive comments asserting, among other things, that black and white players are treated differently under Yankees manager Joe Torre. They were made in an interview with ...
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 Chemist Says Sheffield and Bonds Used Drugs - New York Times
Chemist Says Sheffield and Bonds Used Drugs - New York Times
Patrick Arnold, a chemist who worked with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative , said in an HBO Sports interview that Barry Bonds and Gary Sheffield took performance-enhancing drugs provided to them by the laboratory. Bonds and Sheffield have denied ...
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ESPN.com - MLB - Roger Clemens - New York Yankees - Player Card
Kobe Bryant, Gary Sheffield and the NY media for their coverage of A-Rod's personal life are our JSU! candidates. Plus, the top MLB stories... Lou Piniella is suspended indefinitely and Roger Clemens' fatigued groin keeps him out until the weekend.
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Yardbarker: John_Lackey
We have Detroit in town for a two game set starting tonight. To prepare, our entire pitching staff meets together before the start of every series to go through the lineup we're about to face. We just finished our meeting about the Tigers. They have a ...
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Lofton: Sheff is right on Joe
ST. PETERSBURG - Gary Sheffield isn't the only player who feels Joe Torre treated black players differently than white players, as Sheffield's former teammate, Kenny Lofton, chimed in with his thoughts yesterday before his Rangers played in Anaheim. ...
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 Cabrera Riles 'Em Up, Then Sheffield Takes Him Out
Cabrera Riles 'Em Up, Then Sheffield Takes Him Out
DETROIT, April 30 -- Gary Sheffield sent his first message to Daniel Cabrera with a violent, almost barbaric swing, which he used to belt a fastball into the left field stands, 408 feet from home plate. The two-run, fifth-inning blast proved pivotal ...
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Recognition
Well done.
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 Michael Jordan Supports Barry Bonds
Michael Jordan Supports Barry Bonds
San Francisco This has been quite the whirlwind week for Barry Bonds . Not that we'd expect anything less from potentially the most controversial figure in all of sports, but this is taking it to new heights. First, Bonds got into a war of words with Bob Costas over BALCO chemist Patrick Arnold 's accusations that Bonds
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Milestones Not Proper Measure of Hall-Worthiness (see Sheffield)
Good analysis of the importance of statistics and specific statistical milestones.
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 Sheffield and Hunter expose Baseball NAFTA
Sheffield and Hunter expose Baseball NAFTA
Gary Sheffield and Torii Hunter have exposed how MLB teams do business. And it's pretty much like every other corporation.
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 Granderson Injured: Does Brandon Inge Play CF?
Granderson Injured: Does Brandon Inge Play CF?
The Tigers’ other center field options: Freddy Guzman, Brandon Inge, Ryan Rayburn, Jacque Jones. Could Gary Sheffield and Magglio Ordonez man the corners, with Jones playing center? Gary’s knees say no. Could Marcus Thames see more at-bats than expected? A definite possibility. Could Inge be handed a starting spot? That would be fun. Rayburn hit .304/.340/.507 in 148 plate appearances in 2007.
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TORRE MUM ON LOFTON'S WORDS
July 16, 2007 -- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - As he did Friday when Gary Sheffield accused him of treating white and black players differently, Joe Torre refused to comment yesterday in the wake of Kenny Lofton backing Sheffield ' s claims. " I don ' t feel ...
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Hate the Player, Hate the Game, Hate Everything
The most vexing and confusing aspect of modern baseball analysis -- and the primary reason we created this site -- is the sniveling distaste for the book Moneyball . As you are all aware, Moneyball is a mathematics textbook designed to prove how ...
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 Diamond Rundown - Edition One
Diamond Rundown - Edition One
Facts, figures and other tidbits from the first week of the ’08 major league baseball season. First Pitches: Kirsten Haglund threw a strike on her Opening Day ceremonial pitch in Detroit. Plus, she sang the National Anthem and “God Bless America”. Take that President Bush! Opening Day Iron Man: Gary Sheffield’s appearance in the starting lineup for the Detroit Tigers brought his ...
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 Roto Chronicles: American League - June 23
Roto Chronicles: American League - June 23
Marcus Thames slugs his way onto fantasy rosters everywhere… THREE UP/THREE DOWN Hitters Orlando Cabrera, SS – CHW (UP) After a very poor April where Cabrera hit .216, his bat has continued to heat up since, hitting .265 in May, and .356 in June. Cabrera is now right where we should have expected him to be while playing in Chicago. He is hitting .274, and continuing to steal ...
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 Starting Fresh: The Expansion of 1993
Starting Fresh: The Expansion of 1993
In part five of my six part series on major league expansion drafts, I examine the sixth expansion draft in major league history, the 1993 expansion draft for the newest members of the National League, the Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies. RULES For the first time in any expansion draft, players from both leagues were eligible to be drafted. The draft had three rounds, each club ...
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 Sheffield says Latin players easier to ‘control’
Sheffield says Latin players easier to ‘control’
Major League Baseball has more Latin players than African-Americans because Latins are easier to control, Detroit Tigers designated hitter Gary Sheffield said in an interview with GQ that appears in the June edition of the magazine. "I called it years ...

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