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20 November 2003

AL MVP Debate, Part II

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This is Part II of Boy of Summer's MVP Thoughts. You can read Part I here. As I mentioned, some sportswriters are really not happ...
18 November 2003

AL MVP Debate, Part I

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The following is the first of a two-part series on the 2003 AL MVP results. Just like the Wachowski Brothers , I found that I had way too m...
13 November 2003

George Steinbrenner: Crusader for Justice

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Can somebody please explain to me who decides the order in which the BBWAA announces the winners of the different awards for the year? And ...
06 November 2003

With Apologies to Rob Schneider...

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Donnie! The Don-Man! Donnie Baseball! Don-A-Rew-Ski! Don-O-Rama! The Donnenator! Don-Don, the Piper's Son! T...
04 November 2003

Billy, Can't Be a Hero

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I had theorized , back in February, that the Phillies had what they needed to get to the post season for the first time in a decade. This w...
30 October 2003

Updates and Plugs...

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Your friend and mine, Alex Belth, was kind enough to mention my Yankee Hell in one of his posts a Bronx Banter , his ecxellent basball/Yanke...
27 October 2003

Yankee Hell

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Games that don't end til 1AM Circle I Limbo Jeff Weaver?!? Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind Outscoring an Opponent Who Bea...
24 October 2003

Somebody?

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Somebody needs to tell the Florida Marlins that they don't have to win. ...that nobody expected them to win. ...that most of us ...

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Noted baseball/history author Harvey Frommer, for whom I have done several book reviews, and who is in the midst of conducting an e-intervie...
22 October 2003

Sports Theology

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Andy Pettitte pitched a great game on Sunday night, which the Yankees won, 6-1 . Eight & 2/3 innings, 6 hits, 1 walk, 7 strikeouts, onl...
15 October 2003

Curse Re-Trac-Tion

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I can’t get no satisfaction, I can’t get no urse Re-trac-tion. ’cause I try and I try and I try and I try. I can’t get no, I can’t get no...
13 October 2003

Spineless Coward

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Not long ago, an athlete with a world of talent at his beck and call, though perhaps a bit past his prime, found himself on centerstage in h...
09 October 2003

Winter of Their Discontent

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I mentioned yesterday how exciting most of the postseason has been, and despite the Yankees' loss to Boston last night, and the Cubs...
08 October 2003

Octobservations

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With apologies to Rob Neyer ... A few random notes while wondering where Carl Weathers will show up in the vast, right wing conspiracy t...
01 October 2003

Tradition

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Error n. A defensive fielding or throwing misplay by a player when a play normally should have resulted in an out or prevented an advance ...
29 September 2003

Prog-Nostradumbass

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Not that I'm really any good at this (I picked the Angels to win the World Series over the Giants last year, and by "Angels" ...
23 September 2003

CYA, Wouldn't Wanna BYA...

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It feels a little disingenuous writing a column about the American League Cy Young candidates now, since the front-runner for the award a mo...
16 September 2003

Quien Es Mas Valioso?

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There seem to be two great debates raging currently in the world of Major League Baseball. The first is who should be voted the NL MVP, wit...