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I've noticed that esteemed Bauxite emeritus Craig Burley, will from time to time discuss fieldmanagers in terms of their bloodlines. Like horses. Which makes sense, even if they don't actually shoot managers. But as we seem to have beentalking about General Managers a fair bit lately, I thought I'd carry on in a similar vein. The first general managers, for the most part, were generally either ... [link]

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THT Live:Where GMs Come From
Published 5/12/2008 by Matthew Carruth at The Hardball Times
Where GMs Come From by Matthew Carruth May 12, 2008 Batter's Box goes back and traces the baseball lineage of our current group of General Managers. It is interesting to note just how many personal connections there are across these people. Matthew Carruth is an editor for The Hardball Times. He welcomes any and all sorts of communication at his ...

Odds and Ends: Jacque, Vizquel, Greinke
Published 5/13/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... Today's linkage... An MLBTR chat will take place in this space at 2pm CST - get your questions ready! I will also be hopping on ESPN-1580 (Columbia, MO) today at 4:20pm CST. Jacque Jones prefers to play for the Marlins...I imagine he will end up there. GM bloodlines courtesy of Batter's Box. Omar Vizquel wants to play in '09, if he has a good offensive year in '08. The White Sox do not intend to overpay their 8th overall pick this June. The Royals ...

Tempered Enthusiasm
Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Stoeten) at Drunk Jays Fans
... on the building, and cooling the building with deep lake water. I guess that's cool and all (zing!), and like I say, I sort of know fuck all about this stuff... but my gut tells me that I wouldn't exactly be chalking up that concrete piece of shit as a victory for the environment just yet. Good Reads I know we kind of shit on Batter's Box from time to time for being a little, er... less colourful than we prefer. But I've got to give them credit for a really interesting piece on the ocupational bloodlines of all of the GM's in the majors. Good stuff. And speaking of ...

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