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20 December 2004

I Love It When a Plan Comes Together

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I'm 30 today. 30. There arrives with the advent of any such milestone a unique opportunity for retrospect upon one's life. Ot...
14 December 2004

Bonds-Giambian Steroid Blues

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Travis Nelson's take on the steroid controversy, Bob Dylan style... Trainer’s in the basement Mixing up my medicine I’m in the on-deck T...
10 December 2004

Travis Nelson Owns the Expos?

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Some time ago, I submitted an essay to a baseball website called Mudville Magazine, which was sponsoring a "You Own the Expos" con...
08 December 2004

TONY WOMACK??!!?

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What the hell is happening here? The Yankees signed free agent secondbaseman Tony Womack to a two-year, $4 million deal yesterday, the ...
03 December 2004

So Much For Fiscal Responsibility

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We're less than a month into the 2004-05 free agent season, with barely a dozen players signed to American teams, and already I'm ir...
12 November 2004

Curse of the AL Cy Young

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Minnesota Twins' left-hander Johan Santana won the American League Cy Young Award for 2004. Should the Twins be worried? Spe...
10 November 2004

Boy of Summer 2004 AL Cy Young Award

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In 2003, Johan Santana finally escaped the Twins' bullpen and showed the baseball world what he could do. An off-season elbow cleanup ...
09 November 2004

Boy of Summer 2004 NL Cy Young Award

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This race is easily the toughest to call. Roger Clemens came out of retirement, granted, a retirement that lasted only slightly longer than...
08 November 2004

Boy of Summer 2004 NL MVP

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With all due respect to Albert Pujols and Adrian Beltre, is there really any serious argument to be made for an NL MVP other than the San F...
06 November 2004

Boy of Summer 2004 AL MVP

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Let me tell you a little about my pick for the American League Most Valuable Player of 2004: * He did not win a batting title. Ichiro S...
27 October 2004

Curses! Foiled Again!

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What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on around here!? Some curse. The only curses I can detect emanate from the lips of...
21 October 2004

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Maybe not... 
19 October 2004

Spinal Tap Baseball

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It seems that there's some cosmic force out there,working behind the scenes, to make sure that the Yankees-Red Sox games don't end a...
16 October 2004

Playoff Ramblings...

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Some random thoughts while I watch Saturday night's Yankees-Red Sox game... I caught this game on the radio, in the second inning, an...
11 October 2004

MVP Trophy Not So Valuable If You're Dead

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It's often said that most players, when given the choice of a longer, undistinguished career or a shorter, more glorious one helped by s...
09 October 2004

I Don't Get it

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Well, you win some...you lose some, right? Unless you're the Twins and you're playing the Yankees, apparently. In that case, y...
07 October 2004

Who Wants a Blow-Out Anyway?

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What a great, close couple of games we've had, at least in the Yankees-Twins series. Tuesday night the Yankees had to face Johan Sa...
04 October 2004

2004 PostSeason Picks

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AL Division Series: ANAHEIM/BOSTON AL Wild Card winner Boston will play Anaheim in one of the Division Series matchups, probably the t...
30 September 2004

Down to the Wire...

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The baseball regular season's almost over, and the final picture of the playoff races is beginning to finally come into focus. But, off...