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blog.baseballdigestdaily.com - 2/14/2008
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Do they want this topic to go away
or what? What a sorry display it was to...
see all the members of the committee kneel in front of Clemens and ask for forgiveness, then ask their soft-hitting questions. What do you do next?
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drunkjaysfans.blogspot.com - 2/9/2008
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The haze eventually began to lift for me
as I realized that tickets to individual games weren't...
scheduled to go on sale in Toronto until the beginning of March. Opposing fans were being offered seats ahead of hometown supporters.
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Questions And More Questions On Ticket Sales
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/24/2007
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They can present stuff/analysis that the mainstream media
aren’t allowed to cover and they have no constraints...
of how many words they can use or how thorough they can cover a given subject. They can approach a subject from any number of angles (i.e. sabermetrics) that those in the mainstream are not allowed to by the higher ups. They’re just such a tremendous online resource and they’re ...
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On bloggers and the blogosphere…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/24/2007
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Those who demand First Amendment rights and protections
should defend those rights and protections, to do otherwise...
is to urinate upon everyone who has fought threats to those freedoms from outside and within. I just hope Bill Conlin remembered to zip up and wash his hands after he finished doing just that.
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Bill Conlin is not an anti-Semite…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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For the life of me I cannot fathom
the angst about the possibility that A.J. Burnett may...
opt out of his five-year $55 million deal with the Toronto Blue Jays. He will have pitched three of the five seasons in Toronto and has all the motivation in the world to throw 200 quality innings. If he opts out it’s because his market value will be higher making him a Type A free agent. What’s the ...
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The Triple-Triple (From 1945-1968)
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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Don Fehr should take a page from Miller’s
ideology. The former executive director of the MLBPA fought...
for a player’s right to determine the direction his career could go. Miller focused on the right of self-determination and personal choice. When a contract expired, the player was free to go wherever he wished under the best terms he could negotiate.
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The Triple-Triple (From 1969-1989)
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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I remember a movie starring Paul Newman called
‘The Hunsucker Proxy’ that I lost a couple of...
hours of my life viewing. Bottom line, it doesn’t matter how good a thespian (not that there’s anything wrong with that ) Mr. Newman is, the movie sucked chunky bilge water. This is what Boras is selling: Pay big dollars and he’ll put up big numbers. It doesn’t matter that your team will Fujita-scale ...
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Apropos of absolutely nothing...
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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The MVP will always be an award based
on both objective and subjective criteria; it will never...
lose the human element. WARP1 will tell you who had the best season statistically, however the award has never been based on that. For every Dick Allen there will be a Willie Stargell and for every Albert Belle there will be a Kirby Puckett. All will have nice numbers but not all of them were ...
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This and that…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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At the same time, I feel a little
guilty since I’m forced to depersonalize human beings into...
bits of news. Whether folks deserve what happens or not, it doesn’t change that lives are going to be affected. Some may enjoy seeing players get their comeuppance whether it’s Barry Bonds or Alex Rodriguez, but in the case of Bonds both friends and family will feel the fallout as well--and not just ...
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Holy flurping snit!...
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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Evidently, Rodriguez wished very much to stay with
the Yankees. So much so that Boras announced the...
opt out before they even had a chance to make an offer. Boras was concerned that a face-to-face meeting with the front office and the Steinbrenners would end up with A-Rod saying ‘Where do I sign?’ before other clubs had a chance to weigh in with their offers. He instructed Rodriguez to not ...
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Dear Yankees fans…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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To me, it is absurd. I always laugh
when people talk about the clause in HOF voting...
about character, integrity and sportsmanship. Allow me an analogy, up to very recently certain statistical baselines generally guaranteed a spot in the Heroes Gallery whether it is 3000 hits, 500 HR or 300 wins. So then, what is the baseline for ‘character, integrity and sportsmanship’? Ty Cobb was not only a ...
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No Fehr for Barry Bonds?…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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The players need another Marvin Miller. The MLBPA
and certain player agents have become the new team...
owners and GM’s of the post Messersmith/McNally era--they have too much control over where free agents decide to play and that is so very wrong. Soon a salary cap will come to baseball and quite possibly NFL-type non-guaranteed contracts unless the union pulls itself together. It is time for ...
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How the mighty have fallen...
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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We see that not only was Ordonez on
base more often but he reached there via contact...
rather than the walk. With men on, a walk isn’t as good as a hit since a base on balls only moves up any base runners 90’. A hit can move runners a lot further and unless the bases are loaded a walk will not plate a run. Also noteworthy is Maggs struck out over 40 fewer times than A-Rod. Factor in that Ordonez ...
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An actual Blue Jays post!…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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The fact that Selig re-released it is meaningless
since it was not collectively bargained. The reason no...
player was disciplined for steroid use is because there was no basis for doing so. There was no rule that stated in no uncertain terms that PED usage would result in sanction. It is the reason Congress took an interest in MLB’s drug policy. The agreement in 2002 regarding steroids was the ...
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Recommended reading...
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com - 11/23/2007
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As Phil Garner once mulled during the strike
of 1981, free agency wasn’t strictly business to many...
players. It was a cause, it was about freedom and rights respecting their careers. The MLBPA has turned free agency as more of an economic ideal than an ideological one. Ideals unite, economics divide and that is why the MLBPA is reeling. I hope that they can right their ship before they become ...
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