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Five Runs? Send the Ball to Cooperstown -- Giants/Mariners Recap
Because the game balls from the past week were sent to Pooperstown, amirite? Nate Schierholtz's at-bat in the 7th inning was a wretched, sordid affair that has to rank among the worst at-bats I've ever watched in my life, and I watched Wesley Snipes pretend to know how to swing a bat in two...
Pet Peeves: the Everyone Else Edition
Things that don't bother me as much as they seem to bother everyone else: 1. Rich Aurilia starting in the place of Travis Ishikawa against lefties. Maybe a large chunk of my semi-prospect-lovin'-heart is blackened and dead. The blood just isn't pumping like it used to. The medical term:...
Depth Chart, Final
Credeble rumors or not, I'm guessing and hoping that this is the final roster: It has just about everything we could realistically hope for. Phelps is on the roster to protect Ishikawa from tough lefties, as well as to give the Giants some pop. Man, does this team need pop. They are sorely...
Rivalry Thoughts
"The Thinker: A-Rod edition", via dugoutdiary.mlblogs.com State of the Rivalry So the Yankees come to Boston tonight. Color me nonplussed. It's hard to get too excited about one Sox-Yankee series. In the media they are presented as critical to the division race. But this significance is way...
Sox to trade Alex Cora?
According to the Globe, the Red Sox are in talks with the White Sox to trade Alex Cora for Juan Uribe: A pair of shortstops might be changing their Sox. According to CBS Sportsline's Danny Knobler, Chicago and Boston are "deep in conversations" on a trade that would send Juan Uribe to the Red...
Open Thread: Cubs vs. Rockies, Thursday 3/20, 3:05 CT
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- Here's why headlines can be misleading (and why headline writers ought to read the story first!). Take a look at the front page of chicagosports.com. (This may change during the day, but this was the way it read at 9:45 CT.) A side headline reads: "Wood's back spasms...
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