Thursday, November 17th, 2011
One of the key baseball free agents this winter is Japanese starting pitcher Yu Darvish. The 25-year-old right-hander has spent the last few seasons pitching for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and is supposed to be posted for bidding at some point this offseason. When he is, a bunch of ...
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Meet Jake Eliopoulous. And pay close attention, because you'll probably never see him again.
A year ago, young Jake was picked by the Toronto Blue Jays in the second round of the MLB Draft with the 68th overall pick. It was a feel-good story. Born in Ukraine, Jake was adopted by ...
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
If you ask me, it's been a terribly annoying week in baseball. And I'm not just saying that to sound like Andy Rooney. (I am, however, grooming my eyebrows in an effort to look like Andy Rooney).
Something has happened every day so far this week that has raised my ire. ...
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Last year we I ripped Vernon Wells and his contract pretty mercilessly. In fact, most baseball experts ripped Wells and his contract for both being horrible. That single contract (seven years, $126 million signed in 2007) is probably the reason J.P. Ricciardi is manning a desk on Baseball Tonight and ...
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Imagine, if you will, this post being presented with '40s newsreel music and '40s newsreel guy doing the reading. Only using modern phrases, because I'm too lazy to look up some hep '40s slang.Now presenting.... The News of the Day!"Anger in Buffalo"Just yesterday we told you about Buffalo's latest meltdown ...
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Chicago White Sox general manger Kenny Williams is almost always lauded in baseball circles for doing whatever it takes to win now. He's known as a "go-getter" who is always looking to make his team better right now. If all of that is true, just what in the hell is ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Lucy Pinder is a big fan of Southampton's football team. In honor of "Soccer Day" here on Rumors and Rants, she's bringing you the links. And the above photo is just about the tamest one we could find of Lucy. Good lass.
That's a fantastic sign. Stay classy, Ronaldo - The ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
While we have to wait until tomorrow afternoon to find out which major league team placed a waiver claim on Toronto outfielder Alex Rios one thing is abundantly clear - the Blue Jays would be crazy to pull him back and keep him on the roster.
A few years ago the ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
The Philadelphia Phillies appear close to snagging a former American League Cy Young Award winner, but not the one they've been chasing for the better part of the month. Reports from all over the interwebs claim the defending World Series champs have switched their focus from Toronto's Roy Halladay to ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
With all this talk about the baseball's trading deadline and players who might be changing teams, Buster Olney had an interesting item in his blog today. I'm not the world's biggest Buster fan, as evidenced by one several posts I've done ripping him in the past. But I found this ...
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