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Let's Go to the Videotape: This Week in Baseball, 1988
We return, yet again, to that star-crossed year of 1988 for this edition of Let's Go to the Videotape. Tucked on a VHS tape with another awesome item I hope to share in the future (tease), I found an episode of This Week in Baseball with a few segments that have some Metsian significance. TWIB...
Can it Be Jepsen AND Fuentes?
With all the talk about thinking outside the box when it comes to relief pitching roles, why not think way beyond the box as well and consider keeping pitchers in the game by slotting them in defensively negligent positions for a batter or two? Would Mike Scioscia I just posted a comment on Rob...
San Francisco Giants Link Dump?
San Francisco Giants link dump! Puff piece on Pablo Sandoval that includes Brian Sabean proudly proclaiming that Sandoval is "not going to try and eke out a walk" because Sandoval has "a hitter's mentality." You know, unlike noted non-hitters like Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson. I love...
Random Thoughts on (the American soil) Opening Night Eve
I've settled in to watch my own personal baseball marathon today. I've watched the Tigers and Royals battle to a 4-4 tie in the eighth inning. I look at the Detroit lineup and it's just absolutely frightening. Ordonez, Sheffield, Pudge, Cabrera, Guillen AND then you add A's killer Placido...
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