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 Atkins appears to be a keeper
Atkins appears to be a keeper
It appears more and more likely that third baseman Garrett Atkins will remain with the Rockies.
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 A Textbook Last Minute Loss
A Textbook Last Minute Loss
I caught the last 2 minutes or so of the pathetic Packers game today. Wow, that team is garbage. .They did everything in their power to lose the game at the end:.- Unable to punch it in from the 1-yard line late in a game, instead settling for a FG? ...

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Flotsam and Jetsam
Posted 3 hours ago at FishStripes
Jorge Julio?
Posted 19 hours ago at Chuckie Hacks
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 What If I Dressed Up as a Turkey?
What If I Dressed Up as a Turkey?
Political correctness gone awry.
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FOX Sports on MSN - MLB - Sources: Furcal meets with A's officials in Oakland
Furcal visited A's officials at the Oakland Coliseum, toured communities where he might live and had a two-hour lunch with A's general manager Billy Beane. The A's have yet to make Furcal a formal offer, sources say, but the two sides expect to speak ...
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FOX Sports on MSN - MLB - Sources: Furcal meets with A's officials in Oakland
Furcal visited A's officials at the Oakland Coliseum, toured communities where he might live and had a two-hour lunch with A's general manager Billy Beane. The A's have yet to make Furcal a formal offer, sources say, but the two sides expect to speak ...
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Matt Wieters’ 2009 Draft Situation = Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s 2008 Draft Situation
Have we not learned anything from when everyone was drafting Jarrod Saltalamacchia early in 2008 drafts even though he didn’t have a full-time job? I warned about him when I included him in my pre-season busts article and unfortunately for those owners taking the plunge, he did indeed disappoint...
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 Tampa Bay Rays 2009 prospect report: Matt Spring
Tampa Bay Rays 2009 prospect report: Matt Spring
Just another light-hitting backup catcher? At this point, Matt Spring will be happy to make it to the majors even in that role. Spring will probably be one of the first to tell you that he doesn’t have what most would consider to be major league talent. Spring just turned 24 . . .
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Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat :
SFGate.com Quick Search Home | News | Sports | Business | Entertainment | Food | Living | Travel Classifieds | Jobs | Homes | Cars SFGate: Oakland Athletics : The Drumbeat Main | About | Bios | Contact Subscribe Athletics Newsletter Categories 3-Blog ...
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Matt Holliday Trade Roundup
It seems that the Rockies will send left fielder Matt Holliday to the A's for Carlos Gonzalez , Greg Smith , and Huston Street soon (assuming Smith's elbow checks out).  While the A's were rumored to be in the mix for Holliday, the trade still ...
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2008: Year Of The Buyer?
It’s too early to proclaim anything definitively, but a look at the transactions that have occurred so far this off-season reveals a pretty interesting trend. Jeremy Affeldt signs with Giants for 2 years, $8 million This is probably 50% ...
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 You're Famous? Why Are You Still In That Uniform?
You're Famous? Why Are You Still In That Uniform?
What is the proper measure of fame for our professional athletes? Salary? Number of cars? Saturday Night Live appearances? No, no and no. The true measure of sports superstardom can be measured by what their sponsors make them wear in television ads: ...
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A's still pursuing Furcal
Also, Oakland signed 30-year-old, right-handed reliever Chris Schroder to a major-league deal Wednesday. Schroder, a minor-league free agent, went 2-5 with a 4.46 ERA in 62 appearances with the Nationals over the past three seasons. - Susan Slusser ...
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Oakland owner: Make 1st round of playoffs 1 game - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
NEW YORK (AP)—Lew Wolff has a way to shorten baseball’s postseason: Make the first round best-of-one.“I’d make it one-game-and-you’re-out for the first series,” the Oakland Athletics owner said Wednesday. “It would be exciting. It would ...
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 Recent Trades May Change Your Holliday Outlook
Recent Trades May Change Your Holliday Outlook
The Colorado Rockies, for some strange reason, have traded All-Star LF Matt Holliday to the Oakland A’s for SP Greg Smith, closer Huston Street and OF Carlos Gonzalez. You can see more details of this trade on ESPN . For reactions of this move, please visit Athletics Nation posts ...
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ARCHIVE: Man’s wife spends fantasy winnings in single trip to grocery store
Enjoy this encore presentation of a classic SSNN piece. ANN ARBOR, MI — Last week Brian Babbit, 36, was on top of the world. The avid fantasy sports participant won his 12-team fantasy baseball league, raking in a cool $240 in the process. But ...
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The Associated Press: Oakland owner: Make 1st round of playoffs 1 game
2 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) Lew Wolff has a way to shorten baseball's postseason: Make the first round best-of-one. "I'd make it one-game-and-you're-out for the first series," the Oakland Athletics owner said Wednesday. "It would be exciting. It would ...
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Oakland owner: Make 1st round of playoffs 1 game - MLB
NEW YORK -- Lew Wolff has a way to shorten baseball's postseason: Make the first round best-of-one. "I'd make it one-game-and-you're-out for the first series," the Oakland Athletics owner said Wednesday. "It would be exciting. It would be great." ...
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 Examining the Matt Holliday trade
Examining the Matt Holliday trade
Taking a closer look at the Matt Holliday trade from the A's perspective. Order the Hardball Times Annual 2009 today !
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 Happy Hollidays
Happy Hollidays
For whatever reason, the Oakland Athletics have decided to add a superstar rather than ditch one. Anonymous sources claim the Colorado Rockies are in the midst of dealing big bat-wielding outfielder Matt Holliday to the ever-rebuilding A's, possibly ...
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 Why the Matt Holliday Trade Works
Why the Matt Holliday Trade Works
We look into why the Matt Holliday trade works for the Athletics.
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 Ryan Ludwick, Albert Pujols win Silver Slugger bats
Ryan Ludwick, Albert Pujols win Silver Slugger bats
TOWER GROVE — St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Ryan Ludwick , fresh from the official announcement that he had won a Silver Slugger to punctuate his breakout season, was headed to gym. The spoils of this season are swell, but he has no interest ...
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Please Stop Abusing Matt Holliday's Road Stats
Over the past few days, you can't escape arguments like this one if you've read anything about the A's-Rockies trade: Matt Holliday is a creation of Coors field.  His career line on the road is only .280/.348/.455!  That's an OPS of ...
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Belated Holliday Trade Thoughts
I’m late to the party, but the trade was finally made official yesterday. I’m not going to bother rehashing everything since you could find the same stuff on every other fantasy baseball website. So I’ll make this a quickie.
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 Carlos Gonzalez: The 2009 Sleeper In The Matt Holliday Trade
Carlos Gonzalez: The 2009 Sleeper In The Matt Holliday Trade
Now that the Oakland A’s have officially acquired Matt Holliday from the Colorado Rockies, a couple things have come to light: The fantasy value of Houston Street (now a Colorado Rockies reliever) is close to zero. Holliday will likely lose his ...
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Colletti denies Martin trade rumors | dodgers.com: News
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers are not trying to trade catcher Russell Martin, haven't yet spoken to the agent for free-agent pitcher CC Sabathia and are considering right-hander James McDonald for a bullpen role. So, yes, there is more to this offseason ...
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A’s - Acquired Holliday
Oakland A's - Acquired LF Matt Holliday from the Colorado Rockies for (reportedly), Huston Street, Greg Smith, and Carlos Gonzalez OK, everyone who saw this move coming, raise your hand. Liars. I won't even make any jokes about this one coming out ...
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Prospectus Today: Taking Advantage by Joe Sheehan
The A`s will likely win out in a deal that the Rockies should not have made... yet.
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 Deal is official: A's acquire Holliday from Rockies
Deal is official: A's acquire Holliday from Rockies
The Oakland Athletics have completed their trade for star outfielder Matt Holliday from the Colorado Rockies, acquiring the big bat they wanted for the middle of their lineup.
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 So Who Really Had the Matt Holliday Scoop?
So Who Really Had the Matt Holliday Scoop?
We discussed Matt Holiday’s puzzling trade to the A’s yesterday, but one angle went unnoticed - who had the story first? (We realize there is a large segment of people who could care less about this trivial media stuff. But that’s ...
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Evaluating CarGo
On Monday, we looked at Matt Holliday ’s potential value to the A’s, and how his acquisition could boost Oakland’s chances for the postseason in 2009. We know the A’s are getting a good player. But what about the Rockies? Is ...
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Sox explored Holliday deal
The Red Sox were briefly involved in trade talks with the Colorado Rockies on Matt Holliday according to a major league source, but bowed out once they heard Colorado's steep asking price. You could only imagine what the Rockies...
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New Holliday Thread
In honor of Veterans Day, and the fact that my browser is struggling to deal with the 750 comment behemoth below, I'm starting a new thread to continue the ohhing and ahhing over the A's new addition. Does Matt Holliday make the A's contenders ...
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 Tuesday Rockpile: Still waiting for Matt Holliday to be officially traded to the Oakland Athletics
Tuesday Rockpile: Still waiting for Matt Holliday to be officially traded to the Oakland Athletics
Because this has moved David's examination of the trade down a bit, click here to go there and continue the discussion. via mlb.mlb.com His slide on 1 October 2007 will forever be the most cherished memory Rockies fans have of Matt Holliday. ...
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 Mets keeping tabs on closers' market | mets.com: News
Mets keeping tabs on closers' market | mets.com: News
NEW YORK -- The pending Rockies-A's trade that will move Matt Holliday to the American League and put Huston Street in the National League appears to have little impact on the Mets -- at least little immediate impact. General manager Omar Minaya has ...
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Riffs: Considering the Matt Holliday Deal
TOWER GROVE — While reading the coverage of the deal sending Colorado Rockies outfielder and recent Cardinals-target Matt Holliday to Oakland — from the news of the trade , to the players headed to Denver , to Drew Litton’s cartoon ...
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Fantasy fallout: Matt Holliday to A’s (Part 2)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Fantasy fallout: Matt Holliday to A’s (Part 2) Posted by Derek Carty at 12:02am This is the second in a two-part series examining the trade of Matt Holliday to the Oakland A's for (most likely) Huston Street , Carlos Gonzalez , and Greg Smith . This ...
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Fantasy fallout: Matt Holliday to A’s (Part 1)
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Fantasy fallout: Matt Holliday to A’s (Part 1) Posted by Derek Carty at 12:01am There is still a bit of speculation at this point and it isn't official yet, but it looks as though Matt Holliday has been traded to the Oakland A's for Huston Street ,  ...