Game Picks - Saturday: June 13, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/13/2009 — Interleague baseball is in full swing. American League teams won nine of the fourteen contests so that has to color any pick during this jog in the schedule. This picker fared fairly well during interleague's first day and will try to build on that over the weekend. Of the incorrect picks from ...

Game Picks - Tuesday: June 23, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/23/2009 — Florida hasn't been very good for the picks this week. But then again, it hasn't been a typical Florida experience. This game picker has been coming down every June for thirteen years. Most people up home say: "What are you crazy! Going to Florida in the summer!?" But it's always been enjoyable. ...

Game Picks - Saturday: June 20, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/20/2009 — Hello from Florida! We left Portland, Maine, yesterday and it was 56 and raining and we arrived here and it was 90 and sunny! Cool. And once we arrived, due to the interleague play, the Yankees were on TV playing the Marlins, so it was a great day all around. Rest. The Pool. Warm. And baseball ...

Game Picks - Monday: June 22, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/22/2009 — It was a brutal day for the game picker yesterday. Everything went wrong that could go wrong. The picker could pluck an excuse out of the deck if needed though. The strong Florida sun made the picker's head go light. Yes, that's it. It's the Florida sun's fault. There that is settled. Now that ...

Game Picks - Friday: June 26, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/26/2009 — We're still stuck in a Florida malaise. Haven't had a good day with the picks since last week. Haven't had a good week in Lord knows how long. It's really hard to cry about it when a wonderful pool is waiting and the last third of Berra by Barra is awaiting perusal. It was pretty cool, however, ...

Game Picks - Tuesday: June 30, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/30/2009 — It was a maunder Monday as the picks came out dead even. Considering that Halladay lost and Porcello lost and this picker actually thought the Mets could beat the Brewers with that AAA team they are fielding, the results are understandable.Rant: The Fan has been picking games on BallHype.com ...

Game Picks - Tuesday: June 16, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/16/2009 — This game picker can finally say that yesterday was a perfect day. There were no incorrect picks while finishing a major contract order for hardcover books. What a job that was. Been working from early in the morning until midnight for weeks now. But it is finished and in two days, this ...

Game Picks - Saturday: June 6, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/6/2009 — The futility continues. Perhaps this sounds a little like a whine, but how the heck can anyone predict games this badly for this long? For weeks, this feature picked against Guthrie of the Orioles. For weeks, those picks were correct. Then Guthrie started picking it up and those picks were ...

Game Picks - Monday: June 8, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/8/2009 — Thanks to some encouragement from a really nice comment on yesterday's game picks post, this picker will no longer whine at the vagaries of this nutty season in Major League Baseball. Instead, this picker will enjoy the ride and the summer no matter what happens. And like the comment suggested, ...

Game Picks - Monday: June 15, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/15/2009 — A change of attitude sometimes means a world of difference. This daily feature has been a lot about whining about game outcomes and blown saves and lost opportunities. This picker has begged and cajoled and cried about bad outcomes. Starting last week, with the help of a faithful reader, this ...

Ortiz homers as Beckett, Red Sox fluster Braves — USATODAY.com MLB - Top Stories 6/27/2009
Josh Beckett threw seven more scoreless innings against the Braves and David Ortiz homered, leading the first-place Boston Red ...

Red Sox 4, Braves 1 — NYT > Baseball 6/27/2009
ATLANTA (AP) -- Josh Beckett threw seven more scoreless innings against the Braves and David Ortiz homered, leading the first-place Boston Red Sox past slumping Atlanta 4-1 on Friday night.

Brett Gardner digs leadoff spot in Yankees lineup — NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 6/27/2009
Brett Gardner went 5-for-6, hit a home run, stole a base, scored three runs and drove in two as the Bombers rolled, 9-1, over the Mets in Flushing. Not bad for finding out you're the leadoff man 40 minutes before the scheduled first pitch.  ...

Yanks’ 5-Hit Wonder Must Still Share a Job — NYT > Baseball 6/27/2009
Manager Joe Girardi said that Brett Gardner — whose five hits helped the Yankees crush the Mets on Friday — will share center field with Melky Cabrera.

Yankees' Jeter out for second straight day — FOXSports.com News for MLB 6/27/2009
Yankees captain Derek Jeter is out of the starting lineup for the second straight night because of a bad cough and fever. Jeter originally was in the starting lineup for Friday night's Subway Series opener against the Mets, then was scratched and ...