seamheads.com - 1/15/2009
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The headline above is a hopeful phrase here in upstate NY, where the temperatures are heading for negative double-digits. We don’t always get a thaw, but after a while, the teens start to feel warm. The snow piled up between the roads and sidewalks can be more of a problem for drivers, ...
Jim Rice In? Tim Raines Out? I Don't Get It
FanIQ.com 1/13/2009 — It's been my signature literally since the day the 2009 Hall of Fame ballot was released, because I knew this was coming. As I said then, "Can anyone explain to me how Jim Rice will get elected to the HoF this year, while Tim Raines won't come ...
Almost Famous
seamheads.com 1/19/2009 — How Jim Rice has a Hall plaque WARNING: This is going to be a true soapbox rant. He gets to sign baseballs like this now: Jim Rice, HOF 2009. So how did he become “famous” enough for Cooperstown?
McGwire snub telling
blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com 1/12/2009 —
As you may have heard, Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice both made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Henderson was a no-brainer, given his dominance of so many statistical categories in Ty Cobb-esque form. Rice's inclusion was a ...
Jim Rice ‘Restless’ but not about Hall
bostonherald.com 1/9/2009 — S ay this about Jim Rice: He was never much of a politician as a player and he has never been much of a politician as an ex-player. This is why those members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, who each year are entrusted with determining ...
The Murph
joeposnanski.com 1/13/2009 — I have some Hall of Fame reaction, of course. But first, I had this ready to roll when Rice got in.
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Now that Jim Rice is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, I want to ask my fellow voters to take a very, very hard look at Dale Murphy. I have ...
A Jim Rice Post (sorry)
walksaber.blogspot.com 12/16/2008 — I really don’t want this to be about Jim Rice or the Hall of Fame, but you may not believe me if you keep reading. What I really want to do here is make a point, and Rice just happens to serve as the example. However, the Hall of Fame debates are near ...
Celizic: Don't talk to me about Rice's numbers - Baseball
nbcsports.msnbc.com 1/13/2009 — For me, there wasn’t any question about Jim Rice being a Hall of Famer. Year after year, I voted for him in the annual vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America. And year after year, the best hitter of his generation fell short of election. ...
This Just In…Rice is IN!
baseballreflections.com 1/19/2009 — Image via Wikipedia I just got the e-mail from Boston.com , Jim Rice (my favorite player growing up), in his last year of eligibility, was finally elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame by the BWAA! Here’s the story on the election of Rice and Rickey Henderson (in his first year ...
Red Sox's Ortiz hopes to play in WBC (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 1/15/2009
Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz hopes to his injured wrist heals enough to let him play for the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic. "I have been swinging some and my injured wrist has not bothered me since last year," he told The ...