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And There Wasn't Even A Curve
Published 7/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (FrostKing) at Frost King Baseball
Steve Henson gave out his mid-season grades this week. The Orioles were given a B- (the only team to receive that particular grade, and the 13th "ranked" team) with the following comment: "Such a shame the Orioles are in a division with those powerhouse Rays, and, oh by the way, the Red Sox and Yankees as well. This has quietly become an excellent team six days a week. Inexplicably, the Orioles have lost 12 in a row on Sundays, having won on Sunday only on April 6, dragging them into fourth place." He doesn't say much about the actual team, but the point about their 1-13 ...

The Media Circus
Published 7/9/2008 at JoeSportsFan.com
If Tom Smykowski from Office Space ever saw his dream of the "jump to conclusions" game come to reality, we have to assume that the mainstream sports media would be camping out in front of Toys 'R Us to get their hands on it. Nobody is better at squeezing rock solid facts from minimal information than sports writers and talking heads. Some even get paid to do it. Over at Yahoo! Sports, Steve Henson got the call to do a mid-season review of Major League Baseball and hand out some grades. Along with those grades came a few turns on the jump to conclusions mat. "Yet the Cubs are positioned nicely to end their century-long World Series ...