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Fat Elvis Out of Commission
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Lance Berkman will not be participating in baseball-related activities for a few weeks after undergoing minor surgery on his left knee Saturday. Since his recovery time is scheduled for 2-4 week, he may even be on the bench for Opening Day, which means Geoff Blum would likely start...
Season Previews: Oakland Athletics
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With Spring Training under way, it's time for one of our favorite things in all the world: Season Previews. Three years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We're just gonna go with what we know. Continuing on with our preview of the...
Cubs GM Blows a Gasket Over Milton Bradley
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Jim Hendry is not impressed with Milton Bradley. Still. Even though the outfielder is no longer under his supervision since being signed by the Seattle Mariners this winter, the Chicago Cubs general manager felt the need to respond to Bradley's latest allegations that the club...
Raise Your Hand If You Also Thought Nomar Garciaparra Had Already Retired
3 days ago by
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Nomar Garciaparra will sign a one-day contact with the Boston Red Sox Wednesday so he can retire a Beantown hero. Quite possibly the twitchiest player in the history of baseball, Garciaparra played his first eight seasons in a Red Sox uni. He'll hang up his cleats with a nifty...
Babes Hate Injuries
4 days ago by
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Superbad Twins closer Joe Nathan, who left the game against the Red Sox on Saturday due to soreness in his surgically repared right elbow, just delivered a crushing blow to Twins Territory: he MAY be out for the season. That sound you just heard? The residents of the entire state...
Season Previews: Seattle Mariners
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With pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training camps this week, it's time for one of our favorite things in all the world: Season Previews. Three years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We're just gonna go with what we know...
Dominate Your Fantasy Baseball Draft
6 days ago by
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...by being super shady. Some people might say fantasy baseball is for nerds. Boy are they ever wrong. Fantasy baseball is a game of skill, risk, and, of course, chance: the chance that half the guys you draft end up on the disabled list by May. That's always awesome. In an effort...
Eri Yoshida: Still Kicking Ass
10 days ago by
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A year ago this month, we wrote about a 17-year-old, 114-pound, Japanese knuckleballer named Eri Yoshida.The Kobe 9 Cruiser made history last March by becoming the first female to ever play professional baseball in Japan. Pretty impressive. These days, Yoshida is still kicking ass...
Banning Maple Bats Means the Unfortunate End of Xtreme Baseball Watching
11 days ago by
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Seriously, how many more eyes need to get poked out before Major League Baseball just bans maple bats all together? Look at those terrified fans to your left, splintered shards of wood hurling toward them at a dizzying pace. It’s quite hilarious alarming.Then again, you should always...
A Little Help From My Friends?
11 days ago by
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As John Lennon and Paul McCartney once cooked up in a swirl of psychedelic delusion, "I get by with a little help from my friends."As many of you know, I am a student at St. Cloud State University, currently studying criminal justice, journalism and broadcasting. Weird combo...
Season Previews: Kansas City Royals
15 days ago by
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With pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training camps this week, it's time for one of our favorite things in all the world: Season Previews. Three years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We're just gonna go with what we know...
Spring Previews: Minnesota Twins
16 days ago by
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With pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training camps this week, it's time for one of our favorite things in all the world: Season Previews. Three years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We're just gonna go with what we know...
Jason Bay could have been a professional curler
17 days ago by
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It broke my small, cold shriveled heart last winter when the Red Sox and Jason Bay couldn't seem to come to an agreement to keep Jason in the Bay State. However, the Mets were a good option as well, as their fan base is tortured, pessimistic, and shares a blinding, irrational hatred...
Tragedy Befalls Kansas City
18 days ago by
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Tragedy has struck Kaufmann Stadium.Sluggerrr the Lion, mascot for the Kansas City Royals, is accused of mauling a fan at a September 2009 game. Ok. So he didn't maul the guy, he merely attacked him with his weiner. Tee hee.Taking cues from Minnesota fans amidst Chuck Knoblauch...
So Ready For Baseball to Get Here
18 days ago by
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So I've started a new blogging endevor over at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where I get to talk about the Minnesota Twins as much as I want, hopefully without being called a shameless homer. Never fear though, BLB will stay right where it is chock full of the usual sassy baseball...
Season Preview: Toronto Blue Jays
18 days ago by
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With pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training camps this week, it's time for one of our favorite things in all the world: Season Previews. Three years ago, they began as a semi-serious analysis and ended up as half-assed haiku. We're just gonna go with what we know...
Let the Bidding War Begin!
18 days ago by
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Watch out, American League. Manny wants to be Manny with you again. Maybe.Entering into the second year of his two year contract with the LA Dodgers, Manny Ramirez said this would be his last year with the club. Will he retire? Will he keep playing? Will he try to be the first man...
Johnny Damon says Detroit '1st Choice'
18 days ago by
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In related news, I think Long Island is the best place to live on the planet. The abundant smell of Axe Body Spray wherever you go. The tans in January, the blinding glow of gold chains on the juiced up shaved chests of the resident guidos. Right. Exactly. This place is hell on earth...
Pardon the drool on my keyboard but David Wright is...
18 days ago by
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TOTALLY EFFING JACKED. The future father of my children via roofie showed up in Port St. Lucie for Mets spring training sporting some serious gun show because of his lack of offensive production last year, according to the New York Post. Wright only hit 10 home runs last year as opposed...
Babes Love Pat Neshek!
19 days ago by
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You can imagine how pumped we were when our favorite side-winding hurler, Pat Neshek, was awesome enough to do an interview with us.The Minnesota Twins reliever with the funky delivery landed on the disabled list back in May of 2008 with a right elbow injury, which ended up being serious...
Chan Ho Beard: Is This Goodbye?
19 days ago by
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Chan Ho Park has signed a one-year contract with the New York Yankees to the tune of $1.2 million with $300,000 worth of incentive-laden possibilities. The deal is pending a physical, and possibly the removal of one badass, ever-changing Chan Ho Beard.The right-hander and his awesome...
Stephen Strasburg: Seat Filler
19 days ago by
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Normally, little more than 50 folks show up to watch the Washington Nationals’ first practice at Space Coast Stadium. Yesterday, roughly 150 people were in attendance.This past Sunday, Florida residents and vacationers flocked to see no one but last June’s No. 1 draft pick, Stephen...
A More Manly Man Muscles?!
19 days ago by
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We didn't think it was possible, but Joe Mauer has managed to make himself more manly.Man Muscles seems to have taken a page out of teammate Nick Blackburn's book by showing up to Spring Training camp with a super sexy, scruffy beard.Apparently, the reigning American League...
ACE and Josh Beckett
20 days ago by
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So following some of the finest baseball writers in the country on Twitter is part of my "actual job that pays my rent and puts copious amounts of Purdue Chicken Fingers in my crisper drawer." It's kind of an interesting thing to look at from a journalistic standpoint...
Barajas Solves Mets' Catching Woes
20 days ago by
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It seems the New York Mets won't have to rely on Henry Blanco to start behind the plate this season, afterall.Rod Barajas and the team have reached an agreement on a one-year, $1 million deal, complete with $1 million worth of piece-of-cake incentives. This is a temporary fix,...
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