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Redsauce Bodley's next column: "In My Day We Walked Uphill Both Ways to School & Everything Was Better"
USA Today: Bodley: Mediocrity, parity is winning combination for Selig
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
USA Today: Bodley: Mediocrity, parity is winning combination for Selig Bodley, Selig, Elias Sports Bureau, Abbott and Costello, The Muggsy Spanier Orch...oh, ok...they re not mentioned. But what decade are we in? Elias Sports Bureau s Steve Hirdt says, If you watch the games you see evidence of some bad baseball, but there s always been bad baseball. Let s face it, there s no one great team among them. Take Arizona. They ve scored 697 runs and allowed 715. That s the team with the best record right now in the National League. The common thread for almost every one of these teams is a tired bullpen. It s the way the game is played today — a steady parade of relief pitchers, Hirdt adds. When people talk about a lot of bad baseball to me, it s a representation that the guys who used to be referred to as the bottom half of the pitching staff are now playing such pivotal roles their arms are t ...
Baseball Today: Friday, September 28
Projo Sox Blog —
... YOU SAY POTATO, I SAY . . . Some people call the wild spring to the finish in the National League exciting. USA Today's Hal Bodley calls it an exercise in mediocrity. ...
Three Days to go …
Home Run Derby —
... . Maybe an American Express commercial would be better. Bud Selig is licking his chops since his dream final weekend has come to fruition. Former NFL commissioner Pete Rozell dreamed about competitive mediocrity, but Bud Selig actually acheived it in MLB. Bill Murray is apparently the ...
