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Travis Nelson's Baseball Blog: Baseball Trade Rumors, News, Commentary, Trivia, Statistical Analysis, and Book Reviews from Major League & Fantasy Baseball

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31 May 2005

Rochester Baseball Review

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There comes a time in every man's life...and, and unlike Casey Stengel, I haven't had too many of them. However, despite being only...
24 May 2005

Subway Train Wreck Series Review

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What a weekend. We had the opening of Star Wars Episode III, almost 30 years after Episode IV debuted in 1977. We had the Preakness Stakes...
07 May 2005

The Moose is Loose!

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Mike Mussina gave the New York Yankees exactly what they needed Saturday afternoon: a rest. No, not a day off. They still had to play. Bu...
03 May 2005

Do the Yankee Shuffle

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My mom is worried. Two days ago, after hearing all about the woes of the New York Yankees on sports talk radio on my way to work, and the a...
27 April 2005

"OK Alex Rodriguez, You Can Stay"

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Alex Rodriguez had the most productive night of his career last night, driving in 10 runs with three homers and an RBI single in a 12-4 poun...
22 April 2005

MLB Steroid Policy Not Working

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The most recent round of steroid suspensions yielded nine new names, all of whom were minor leaguers and all of which again rhyme with ...
21 April 2005

Random Yankee Baseball Notes...

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Don't look now, but the Yankees have won two of their last three games! That's 67%! Woo-hoo! They've scored 32 runs in their l...
18 April 2005

You Complete Me

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Is it just me, or is the ghost of Steve Carlton posessing most of the Florida Marlins' starting rotation? Actually, Lefty's still al...
15 April 2005

Weekend Update...

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I wish I had more to say about last night's Yankees-Red Sox game, but you probably already know it all: The Red Sox' manager and hit...
14 April 2005

Curt Schilling: Greatest American Ego

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Sometimes life just isn't fair. For example, despite being as big a baseball fan as I think I am, I had not yet had an opportunity to w...
11 April 2005

Pedro Martinez: Duel Personalities

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A classic pitching duel. One for the ages? Probably not, but it must have been a lot of fun to been a Mets fan in the stands or in front o...
07 April 2005

Frank Thomas, Hurt of Fame

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UPDATE: Due to Frank Thomas' recent retirement announcement, I've updated this article a little, here . The topic of yesterday's...
04 April 2005

Alex Sanchez: Scapegoat or Closet Body-Builder?

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The first casualty of the new MLB drug-testing policy was felled yesterday. Tampa Bay outfielder Alex Sanchez, an otherwise largely unrema...
31 March 2005

The Walking Wounded - National League

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Spanning the globe, to give you a constant variety of...actually, not much. This is Boy of Summer. We do baseball here. If you want Varie...
29 March 2005

The Walking Wounded - American League

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Spring is in the air. Unfortunately, so are rumours of steroid use, allegations of falsehood and conspiracy, and bitterness from players, fa...
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Travis M. Nelson
Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States
Blogging the Yankees and whatever else occurs to me, usually way too infrequently, since 2002.
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