seattletimes.nwsource.com - 11/10/2009
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Apparently, Adam Jones' brother, Jonathan, has spilled the beans on his MySpace page that Adam has won a Gold Glove. The awards will be announced tomorrow (not today, as I said earlier; I read the calendar wrong), but the players indeed have known for awhile, so I give this report credibility.
babeslovebaseball.com - 11/12/2009
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babeslovebaseball.com —
Ryan Zimmerman earned his first career Gold Glove
on Wednesday, succeeding a buddy from his youth, New...
York Mets' third baseman David Wright. Back when Zimmerman was a shortstop in high school, the two were teammates on a youth team...
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NL Gold Gloves Awards, Yay
espn.go.com - 11/11/2009
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espn.go.com —
Well, there's nothing truly offensive about the list
of National League Gold Glove winners. Rather, it's just...
the usual laziness that you would expect...
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NL Gold Gloves: 2 out of 9 ain't bad
rightoffrussell.com - 11/10/2009
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THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
From one of the former census takers:
Just as an aside, I was a Sporting News correspondent for several years in the 1990s when that publication sponsored the Gold Glove awards. It was the job of each correspondent to gather the votes of the coaches and manager of the team he covered—in my case, the San Francisco Giants.
Let’s just say I wasn’t impressed with the depth of knowledge of the coaches when it came to evaluating the candidates and coming to a conclusion. They’d pretty much blurt out the name of a ...
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U.S.S. Mariner —
... You should not care. These are about as meaningful as the teen choice awards. The people who vote on them don’t really put much thought into it, nor do they really know what they’re doing. They don’t represent defensive ability in any real way, shape, or form. ...
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Ghostrunner on First —
... two. That's right, I gave Death to Flying Things two awards for one season. Why? Because I love defense, and he's the best outfielder I've seen since Devo. That good. Making the impossible look easy and the easy a memory. Amazing. Up in Them Gutz, of course, didn't win a Gold Glove. Because they're a joke, and arguing about them is trying to beat sense into the skull of a senile, racist old fuck who doesn't care about rational thought any more. They're just waiting to die. To wit, from the Seattle Times' Larry Stone : Let's just say I wasn't impressed with the depth of ...
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