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Baseball Players Are Meant to Be Fat
Baseball Players Are Meant to Be Fat
Why is it that no complaints are made about these players’ weights when they’re kicking ass while fat? Andruw Jones was portly when he blasted 51 and 41 in back-to-back seasons. Miguel Cabrera ballooned last year but still had his typical stellar season. Matter of fact, “fat Miggy” set career highs for home runs and RBI. Prince Fielder might not be hitting because we’re only two weeks into an seve
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Rounding The Bases: Chow Down
Bugs & Cranks — Baseball players are meant to be fat. So leave them alone, okay? [Larry Brown Sports] What’s wrong with C.C. Sabathia? [Walkoff Walk] Adam Wainwright! He pitches! He hits! What can’t he do?! [STLtoday.com] Jose Reyes is back to doing his Jose Reyes thing. [Faith and Fear in Flushing] The Brewers line-up is suffering a sever power outage. [Breaking Down the Brewers Blog] Also,  B&C’s own David Chalk has a very well-written piece over at Yahoo! today on why his beloved Tampa Bay baseball ...

High Five
Foul Balls — A quick look around the interweb while writing your resumes The fact that a Bulls coach being fired only gets a link instead of an actual post is just an indicator as to how good of a coach he was. [ Chicago Sports ] Actual video of Christmas Ape being fired by the Washington Post. [ Kissing Suzy Kolber ] Well, if Miguel Tejada did it, then you know Jose Contreras is at least 65. [ FanHouse ] Leave the fatties alone! [ Larry Brown Sports ] Seriously, if you're not reading Fire Joe Morgan everyday, you suck. [ Fire Joe Morgan ]

Call the Weight Watchers?
Mojo Blog — ... and stayed out-of-shape, I’ll accept it. But don’t tell me that players who were successful while fat aren’t succeeding because they’re still just as fat. I agree with Larry Brown on this one. Most fat players would probably be better athletes if they lost a few pounds, but their weight is usually not the main problem if they kicked ass before. Link: Baseball Players Are Meant to Be Fat  

Blog Patrol: Rusty Kuntz Better Win This Thing
FanIQ Blog — ... of Isaac] A blogger friend reveals himself, gets fired by the Washington Post. [Deadspin] Who would've guessed the Garbage Pail kids predicted the future of sports? [Food Court Lunch] Frank DeFord goes off on MMA. [Signal to Noise] A look at the career long idiocy of Sean Avery [Rumors and Rants] CC Sabathia is horrible right now. [I'm Writing Sports] Baseball players are supposed to be fat. [Larry Brown Sports] Mets pitcher John Maine likes Jennifer Anniston a ...

Blog Jam: Joe Buck’s Gonna Put A Spell on You
SPORTSbyBROOKS — ... . • LARRY BROWN SPORTS weighs in with the opinion that baseball players are meant to be fat . • JOE SPORTS FAN has hair-raising news that Mets pitcher John Maine just ...

Sir-Links-Alot
East Windup Chronicle — Sorry folks, but I’ve got to do a link dump. I’ve been pretty busy the past few days, and as a result I’ve got a backlog of things I wanted to get out there. Bugs and Cranks’ writer, and occasional EWC contributor, David Chalk penned something on Yahoo! about the G-POPE, and why the Rays should sign him Baseball Players are Meant to be Fat by Larry Brown Sports Some Pitch f/x theory via Mike Fast at The Hardball Times And using Pitch f/x to see if something’s up with C.C. Sabathia’s ...

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