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18 July 2008

Blanton Traded to Phillies, Prospects to Oakland

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In the latest move of desperation to shore up teams' rosters for the stretch drive, and Billy Beane's latest move to rid himself of ...
16 July 2008

All Star Game Almost Another Tie, Needs More Incentive

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Are they listening? Hello? Are the All-Star managers listening at all? "This One Counts." Or so we're told, and yet the manage...
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15 July 2008

No "Cheap Seats" In New Yankee Stadium

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New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick laments the staggering increase in prices for some of the tickets to the Yankees' and Mets' n...
09 July 2008

Rich Harden-to-Cubs Trade Analysis: Don't Think the A's Got Cheated

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Well, that didn't take long. Despite the patently transparent protestations of Cubs general manager Jim Hendry that he would not ramp u...
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07 July 2008

Sabathia Deal Helps Both Brewers and Indians

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C.C. Sabathia, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, has apparently been traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for prospects, accord...
01 July 2008

National League Will Win the 2008 All Star Game

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OK, so it wasn't "tomorrow" but here's my NL All-Star Ballot, for what it's worth: First Base: Berkman, L., HOU Second...

American League 2008 All Star Ballot

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Tomorrow is the last day for online All Star voting. I know because I get about two dozen emails per day telling me so. (OK, more like one ....

Review: Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends

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Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else by Rob Neyer “Because only a good story well told is wort...
08 June 2008

The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox and the Playoff of ’78 by Richard Bradley

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“It felt not just like a singular moment, but a fragile one, a rare convergence of tradition and rivalry and timelessness that would not be ...
29 May 2008

Royals Lose 10th Straight in Epic Fashion

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Rob Neyer and Rany Jazayerli and Joe Posnaski are complaining about the Royals losing their 10th straight game last night. Hard to blame...
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Yankees Beat Baltimore, but Still Struggling

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Sometimes things just work out. Everything went to plan for the Yankees in Baltimore last night. After a couple of demoralizing losses to t...
23 May 2008

Omar Vizquel's Weak Hall of Fame Case

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UPDATE: I have taken an updated and more thorough look at Omar Vizquel's Hall of Fame credentials here . Rob Neyer links to a column by...
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Yankees Rotation Issues Sorting Out; Hitting, Well, Not So Much...

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The New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles last night, 2-1 in New York, their second consecutive win after a 4-game losing streak. They...
21 May 2008

Mike Piazza Hangs Up Tools of Ignorance

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I did some research about four years ago when Mike Piazza broke the all-time record for homers by a catcher, in which I estimated that Ivan...