MLB
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Whither A-Rod’s Rehab Assignment?
Photo by donthatemiami.com Somebody please bring Cash into the loop! By all accounts we’ve been hearing that the Yankees wish Alex Rodriguez would just go away, that he never wear the...
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Mets: Questions Getting Answered
Matt Harvey photo by slgckgc on Flickr Now that we’re weeks away from the All-Star break it’s a fair time to review my preseason Crystal Ball on the Mets and Yankees...
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Crystal Ball on the Mets and Yanks
Photo Courtesy of mets360.com Which NY club can claim their ‘Future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades’? (Hint: the choice of Pheatured Photo is not for nothing). Surprise, it’s the Mets...
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Money’s the Root of All Evil in Sports, Right?
Photo courtesy of dodgersrumors.com When someone says ‘it’s not about the money’, you know it’s about the money. Tru dat. Kudos to Zack Greinke for refreshing honesty and self-awareness: upon signing...
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All-Access Fandom: When Is It Too Interactive?
Photo Courtesy of streakingthelawn.com The Holy Grail in sports fan experience has always been to get the fan ‘in-the-game’…give them a sense of playing, managing or being a team member. As...
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Yanks’ Offseason: Less is More?
Photo by Keith Allison Brian Cashman worries so we don’t have to. Last year everyone worried that the Yankees didn’t win games unless they hit home runs. This year we’ll find...
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Numbers Don’t Lie, But What Do They Tell Us?
After Jose Canseco became the first member of the 40 HR/40 Steals club in 1988, Mickey Mantle remarked, “Hell, If I’d known 40–40 was going to be a big deal, I’d have done...
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To Be Young, Gifted and Unpaid
Jadeveon Clowney, Photo courtesy of bleacherreport.com Restraint of trade vs. freedom to make a living…a debate that comes up from time to time has just re-emerged in recent days with the...
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Mets’ Offseason: Shadow Puppets?
The fact that the Mets lost out on signing Michael Bourn is not particularly newsworthy. Bourn is 30, a bit of a journeyman, a career .272 hitter with a .339 OBP, can...
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PEDs: Where Are We Going With This?
Photo by cthoyes on flicker Leading off a post on PEDs, who better to usher in the topic but the Bash Brothers led by Jose Canseco, the self-described ‘Godfather of Steroids’?...
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Yankees: $189M or Bust?
Photo by Keith Allison It’s been well-documented that Hal Steinbrenner is bound and determined to get the Yankee payroll to $189 million for the 2014 season. They are currently looking at...
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Baseball HOF: Don’t Look to the Writers to Fix It
Photo by Kevin Rushforth No surprise: MLB announced that no players were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2013. Also not a surprise in the outpouring of posturing, mostly...
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Sports World: Gimme Some Truth
Photo by Keith Allison There’s “the whole truth and nothing but…” and then there’s everything else, such as spin, omissions and outright lies. We’re seeing a lot of ‘everything else’ in...
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Innovative Yanks: Not Moneyball, It’s Q-Ball
Photo by Tomas Fano Billy Bean thinks he’s so smart, picks up on a new concept for valuing players and has Brad Pitt playing him in a feature film (and he...
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When Does The “For Sale” Sign Go Up In The Bronx?
Photo by Eric Beato It looks to me like the House of Steinbrenner (HOS) is preparing to sell the crown jewel of pro sports franchises in the next 1-2 years. Depending...
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Adopt-A-Ballclub Today
Photo by Keith Allison In the words of the great philosopher W.C. Fields, “If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about...
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How Do We View Juicers for the Hall of Fame?
Photo by Keith Allison The 2013 Baseball HOF class contains some premier players of their era who are positively known to have used PEDs (Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa) or...
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Flushing Has An Odor
Courtesy of PhillyGameday.com Lay down with dogs, you get fleas…birds of a feather…a fish rots from the head down…pick any trite saying you like, the Mets are a classic case study....
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A-Rod: Another Feat We’ve Never Seen Before
Photo Keith Allison Sometimes when it looks too good to be true, it literally IS too good to be true. Alex Rodriguez has been an unprecedented package of baseball ability, giving...
