passion4baseball.blogspot.com - 6/25/2009
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God love, Buster Olney. He's a great reporter and his blog is always full of useful and interesting information. But when he gets on a soapbox, he's a bit like a preacher pointing to the Bible and saying, "You will PAY for your sins!" Today's post starts with "whispers" that A-Rod's problems may ...
Too Early for Olney to Say A-Rod is Done
downswinging.com 6/26/2009 — Yesterday, the topic of ESPN’s Buster Olney’s blog/column was A-Rod and his struggles since returning from surgery. Olney said that A-Rod has been taking longer to reach first base, has been fielding poorly and isn’t catching up to fastballs. True, at the time Olney was ...
Olney’s premature obituary for A-Rod
riveraveblues.com 6/26/2009 — Yesterday, Buster Olney wrote a premature obituary of sorts for A-Rod . Noting that A-Rod ’s numbers are way down this year, Olney speculated that the post-steroid-confession, post-surgery A-Rod isn’t anything close to the late-20’s ...
And That Happened
hardballtimes.com 7/2/2009 — A pinch is a device which creates, like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry. Better yet, a pinch is a bomb - now, but without the bomb. See, when a nuclear weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now ...
Olney turns around on A-Rod
riveraveblues.com 8/4/2009 — Remember in June when A-Rod was slumping pretty hardcore? Buster Olney wrote a blog post on him , noting how slow and old he looks. Oh, and how a lack of PEDs might hurt him going forward. Of course, he foisted all of the criticism on baseball ...
Chat with Buster Olney - SportsNation
proxy.espn.go.com 6/2/2009 — Welcome to The Show! On Monday, ESPN The Magazine MLB writer Buster Olney will stop by to take your questions on your favorite team, favorite players and all the latest news on and off the field! Send your questions now and join Buster on Monday at ...
There's a 13-year-old clone of Alex Rodriguez out there?
sports.yahoo.com 7/3/2009 — So if you thought all the hype over 16-year-old Bryce Harper was a case of too much, too soon well then does the New York Daily News have a premature prospect story for you! Thursday's editions of the paper carried an article on the big league ...
He’s Baaaaaaacccck: The Five Reasons A-Rod is Turning a Corner
heartbeatofthebronx.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — 1. Rest Will Do a Body Good Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees brass continued to ignore Dr. Mark Philippon’s post-surgical rehabilitation guidelines through the first six weeks of his faster-than-anticipated return. Though initially instructed to rest once a week during this time period, A-Rod ...
Set Expectations for A-Rod at Wait-and-See
nybaseballdigest.com 6/22/2009 — There is much hand-wringing over Alex Rodriguez, his .213/.371/.456 batting line, and the eight-plus years remaining on his contract. It is understandable, of course: for the kind of money the Yankees are paying A-Rod, more was expected. These are supposed to be the seasons that justify the ...
All the best third basemen have daddy issues
riveraveblues.com 6/6/2009 — When Selena Roberts broke the story in February that A-Rod was one of the 104 names on the supposedly anonymous list of steroid users, we quickly learned that she did so while in the process of researching a book about the Yanks’ enigmatic ...
More rest planned for A-Rod
riveraveblues.com 6/22/2009 — The more I think about this weekend’s A-Rod injury flap, the more I wonder how the Yankees could get this one so wrong. Just two months removed from a major labrum procedure, Joe Girardi penciled A-Rod into the lineup for 38 straight games. He ...
Door punch lands Braves' Bennett on DL (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 6/25/2009
Braves right-hander Jeff Bennett has been placed on the 15-day disabled list a day after breaking his left hand when he punched a door in frustration. Bennett on Thursday said he was angry after allowing inherited runners to score on Alex Rodriguez's ...
A-ROD TIES REGGIE ON HOME RUN LIST —
NY Post: Sports 6/25/2009
> ATLANTA -- Alex Rodriguez homered in the first inning off Braves right-hander Derek Lowe, tying Reggie Jackson for 11th place on the all-time home run list. "I am glad to see him tie it," Jackson said of his 563 homer mark. "Maybe it will ...