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The 2009 Toronto Blue Jays: "Eh" For Effort
[For the Jays-Sox Game 1 thread, please click here.] Entering the season, all the talking heads in baseball predicted the AL East to be a three-team bloodbath. The Sox, Rays and Yankees would demolish each other and the rest of the league in the race for October. Nearly anyone making predictions...
Is Marco Scutaro Playing Over His Head? . . . Now Is that (Man)Love That's Making You Think?
So far this season, Marco Scutaro has been playing an incredible shortstop (.278 / .406 / .444; 17.6 UZR/150 at shortstop). No one seems to believe that it's possible for him to keep it up, but looking at his batting average on balls in play (.288) it does not really seem all that impossible,...
Blue Jays to Dodgers: No! You Can't Have Marco Scutaro!
This probably should be taken with a grain of salt, but I still think it's hilarious: The Dodgers are now unsure about the future of two shortstops --Nomar Garciaparra (who sprained a ligament in his left knee) and Rafael Furcal (back surgery) -- so they've resumed their search for...
ANtics Episode 3.19: Reality Bites
Oh the All-Star Break. A great time to relax and bask in the wonder of baseball... most years. But this year, as the A's slumped into the break like an underage wannabe frat boy with a fake ID returning to the dorms after his first bender, the shine has seemingly come off this team. As the team...
ANtics Episode 3.09: A Yankee Trilogy
Wow! What a series! 3 games, 33 innings, 2 walk-off wins by the A's, and the continued heroics of a player known only as VMC. After an extended sabbatical, Joe Blanton and Adam Melhuse return to critique the three part series against the Yankees in the A's "This Week at the Movies". Click to See...
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