Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Now that baseball's trade deadline has passed, we can all look back and guess on who made the right or wrong moves and what kind of impact they'll have. While that would just be speculation at this point, we can tell you one thing unequivocally: the Texas Rangers won the ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
The Baltimore Orioles have been trying to figure out who they will be able to make available via trade this month. One piece of that puzzle appears to have been solved, as the O's and shortstop J.J. Hardy are nearing an extension.
Hardy was sent to the Orioles by the Minnesota ...
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Manny Ramirez wore out his welcome in Los Angeles last season, and didn't exactly set the world on fire after being traded to the Chicago White Sox (two RBI in 24 games won't exactly make people love you). So after burning bridges all across the country, will Manny find a ...
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
Start celebrating Pirates fans. Pop the champagne, spray each other down, get crazy, your team has just locked up the No. 1 pick in the 2011 MLB Draft. On second though, scoring the worst record in baseball is a tad different than clinching a playoff spot, and given how cheap ...
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
It's no secret that the Los Angeles Dodgers aren't big fans of the way Matt Kemp carries himself. It has long been implied that Kemp is more concerned with being famous than he is with being a good baseball player. One Dodgers exec even told a source close to me ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
The resurgent Baltimore Orioles won yet again on Monday night, improving their record under new manager Buck Showalter to 6-1, an obvious cause for excitement.
Well, not too much excitement.
The Orioles still have the worst record in baseball at 38-74. If they were to play the final 50 games of the ...
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
So today I was perusing the news when I came across an interesting thing: Some baseball expansion team named the Baltimore Orioles have fired their manager.
Honestly, it seems kind of soon to can your manager when it's your first year of existence. Surely he deserved some more time to grow ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Something a little different with the link dump today. I've linked every blog in our blog roll that's still posting regularly. That's right all of them. In alphabetical order. So please read them because it took me ninety fucking minutes to do this whole thing.
Well if Charlie Batch said it.... ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Who wins in a Selleck/Celek fight?
Who? Brent Celek. You know the second-year Philadelphia Eagles tight end out of Cincinnati. Well, you should have known. I only told you on Friday he was going to blow up in the NFC Championship Game.
Sure the Eagles lost, but our boy Brent caught 10 ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
So Japan and the United States’ economies are in tatters - both in recession. That doesn’t mean all commerce is down. If the New York Yankees have taught us anything (besides not tagging anything Derek Jeter has without a rubber) it's that Major League Baseball is impervious to the global economic ...
Posted in Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Japanese Baseball, Kenshin Kawakami, Koji Uehara, MLB, Tom Mastny | 7 Comments »