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BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog found this 5/8/2008 on www.newsweek.com [flag]
I was hard-wired to stand with the union men; once even served on the national board of my newspaper guild. And while there are few unions harder to embrace than the baseball players', a union that views its members' welfare strictly in dollar signs, I could no more have imagined supporting the baseball owners than I could have envisioned Hillary Clinton as a shot-and-a-beer gal with a hint of ... [link]

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Newsweek: Starr: The Benching of Barry Bonds
Published 5/8/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Newsweek: Starr: The Benching of Barry Bonds Starr: Jaundiced liver pool-8 - MLB-7. Back in 2000 the average team hit a whopping 190 home runs. In 2006 teams still averaged 180. Last year that total dipped to 165, and this season, if the current pace continues, the average will be 147—with four teams hitting fewer than 100 homers. But it’s not just home runs that are diminishing; it’s all kinds of hits. While hitters tend to heat up along with the weather, the average team batting average in the American League is currently just .256 and in the National League .258. That is a ...

Daily Steroid Briefing
Published 5/9/2008 by GRG51 at Steroid Nation
... 1. More cops on steroids in Tennesse. (MSMV) 2.  Brian McNamee's lawyers sending investigator to Houston to probe the Rocket. (NY Times) 3.  Here is why Barry Bonds was benched.  (Newsweek) 4.  Squeezing juiced horse in PA. (Erie Times-News) 5. Canadian horse doped up on Alzheimer drug. (Toronto Sun) ...

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Barry Zito returned to the starting rotation in Pittsburgh yesterday giving up 2 runs in 5 IP for the loss. Though his fastball was still topping out in the mid-80's, Zito managed to rack up 5 K's, including a pair of key 2-out rally killers, by making good use of his off-speed stuff...
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Ever since the Tigers lineup stumbled out of the gate, a small trickle of a theme has turned into a full-blown meme: Detroit needs Barry Bonds. Rob Parker in the Detroit News is only the most recent writer to trumpet that claim . It’s even ...
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Like him or not, Tigers need Bonds

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Rob Parker Like him or not, Tigers need Bonds The Major League Baseball Players Association has opened an investigation into the free-agent market. It wants to look into why free agents Barry Bonds, Kenny Lofton and other players are still unsigned ...
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