Game Picks - Wednesday: June 24, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/24/2009 — The fun in the Florida sun continues, while the ick in the Florida picks also continues. Watched a lot of baseball last night. Saw Matt Wieters hit his second homer. Watched the Marlins win in twelve innings (thus ruining that pick). Watched the Cubs benefit from a blown save by Joel Zumaya only ...

Game Picks - Sunday: June 21, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/21/2009 — Happy Father's Day everyone! Baseball is truly one of the biggest father/son traditions there are. It's a truly generational game and it just seems natural that Father's Day falls in the middle of the best sports season of them all.Here are today's Father's Day picks:The Tigers over the Brewers: ...

Game Picks - Sunday: June 14, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/14/2009 — It's a beautiful sunny day in northern Maine and weeks after the rest of the country, the flowers are beginning to bloom, the grass is nice and green and the trees are all wearing their coats. It's a beautiful time to be alive and breathing the clean country air. To top off what is already going ...

Game Picks - Thursday: June 25, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/25/2009 — While the skin turns from somewhat red to tan down here is Florida, the picks record keeps going farther into the red. It's hard to believe that this game picker is this bad this consistently. Perhaps Anonymous from the other day can be hired to take over. Here's how we could work it (if you are ...

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 29, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — Aha! The game picker sees how it goes now. The game picker just needed a cloudy day in Florida for the picks to come out right. It was a cloudy day here in Paradise and the picks had their best day in quite a while. Well, it's cloudy again today, so let's keep this ball rolling.Today's picks:The ...

Game Picks - Thursday: June 11, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/11/2009 — Seven more days until this picker can head to Florida to sit by Mom's pool and read a few good books. Never before has that pending trip been so needed. These old bones need some Florida heat to recoup and recover. As for these baseball picks, recovery was short lived. But as in life, where this ...

Game Picks - Saturday: June 27, 2009
passion4baseball.blogspot.com 6/27/2009 — Well holy smokes! This picker actually had a decent night. If Soto hadn't hit the jack"pot" with a homer, it could have been better. But all in all, Romero was an alpha. Gardner was "shear" brilliance. Beckett's performance wasn't at all novel. Millwood ground out another win. And Ethier was ...

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 - 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 ...

Kaz's First Start Since the DL — Bleacher Report - MLB
Here is the stat line for Scott Kazmir's return to the Rays rotation. Five innings, two runs, four hits, one walk, five strikeouts, and 92 pitches.  Kazmir started off pretty slow and rough last night. Allowing two runs in his three two ...

Marlins-Rays: Florida Lost This Game When It Was Tied — Bleacher Report - MLB
Fredi Gonzalez described last night's contest between the Marlins and Rays as the battle of the bullpens, and predictably, we knew what the ending was going to be like. The Marlins bullpen would find a way to lose the game, and that's what ...

Ross credits rumors, bat for turnaround — Major League Baseball News
Marlins third-base coach Bo Porter has this belief that legit everyday players, no matter what, are going to basically put up their normal numbers throughout the course of a long season.

Marlins need to stop running game — Major League Baseball News
Shutting down would-be base stealers has been a struggle for the Marlins all year. And the Rays are the kind of team that can expose such a weakness.

Rays first to hit 100-100 mark by All-Star break — SI.com - MLB
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- The Tampa Bay Rays became the first major league team to have 100 homers and 100 steals by the All-Star break when B.J. Upton homered in the third of inning of Sunday's game against Florida.