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The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Astros left Koby Clemens and Drew Locke, among others, unprotected in the Rule 5 draft. That seems like a risk to me. Hopefully, Ed Wade is right when he says he put himself in the place of the other GMs and felt that they would not be players who could be kept on a ML roster for a full season. But the Astros reached that same conclusion regarding a young pitcher named Johan Santana and he was...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
When a devout Packers fan and unabashed Cowboys hater such as myself is fearful of Sunday afternoon's nationally televised clash turning into a double-digit embarrassment for Green Bay, you know that it's going to be a tense weekend: ● Texas inquired into the availability of Rays outfielder B.J. Upton as part of their standard off-season due diligence, but were evidently rebuffed, as there are...
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MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Next up in our Offseason Outlook series, the Rangers. Their likely commitments for 2010: C - Jarrod Saltalamacchia - $411K C - Taylor Teagarden - $401K 1B - Chris Davis - $407K 2B - Ian Kinsler - $4MM SS - Elvis Andrus - $400K 3B - Michael Young - $16MM (partially deferred) IF - Joaquin Arias - $402K LF - David Murphy - $415K CF - Josh Hamilton - $555K+ RF - Nelson Cruz - $408K OF - Brandon Boggs -...
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Stars Are Blind (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
In a tell-all interview with Katie Couric, Tennis superstar, Andre Agassi, confessed his crystal meth addiction, his wigs that became part of his trademark and his life with wife Steffi Graf. You can see his complete interview here. Watch CBS News Videos Online Watch CBS News Videos Online Watch CBS News Videos Online Related posts:Full Rihanna [...] Related posts: Full Rihanna 20/20 Interview Live...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Powered by beautiful Saturday mornings, $200 million championships and the ever-present hope of tomorrow, we move on to the three longest Texas Rangers home runs from the season that was -- all from the two usual suspects: True Distance, a.k.a. Actual Distance - If the home run flew uninterrupted all the way back to field level, the actual distance the ball traveled from home plate, in feet. If the...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
More photos » by Charles Krupa - AP Browse more photos » 1. Jacoby Ellsbury - It's time to compare players! Player A (2009): 606 ABs, 15 HR, 96 R, 68 RBI, 60 SB, .305, .816 OPS Player B (2009): 624 ABs, 8 HR, 94 R, 60 RBI, 70 SB, .301, .770 OPS Pretty close, eh? What if I told you that player A will likely be drafted as a top three outfielder in 2010, while player B could be drafted near...
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Salon.com (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Jason Whitlock is a provocateur. A gadfly. The FOX Sports columnist writes “from absolutely every angle, including angles other writers can't imagine or muster the courage to address. His columns are humorous, thought-provoking, agenda free, honest, unpredictable and uncomfortable for white and black people comfortable with their biases.” Ah, yes, the old “you can’t handle...
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Lone Star Ball (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
More photos » by Kathy Willens - AP 2 months ago: Texas Rangers batter Josh Hamilton tosses his helmet after striking out swinging in the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) Browse more photos » Evan Grant writes today that the Rangers should go with two hitting coaches -- Rusty Greer...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
For what seems like months now, the concept of achieving better run prevention via the power of defense has been stuffed down your collective throats. Knowledgable fans are embracing it, sportswriters are begrudgingly recognizing it -- some more quickly than others, of course -- and front offices have taken steps to neutralize any market inefficiencies that might have left it undervalued. Baseball,...
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
It is not a cat I'm calling but Pussy Galore. A column on marital infidelity among athletes and sports commentators defines the enemy as Pussy Galore, and it would be very odd if those big burly men were waging a war on kittens. So it's probably the vagina with its frightening appendices that is the danger of he-men everywhere. It causes them to lose their jobs, their sports and their families, And...
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Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
So that’s that. Phillips’ credibility wasn’t considered an issue when he suggested Josh Hamilton was undeserving of a Cincinnati roster spot, nor did anyone at the network raise an eyebrow when Phillips suggested Barry Bonds’ record breaking HR had to occur at home “for the good of baseball”. In the wake of a consensual extramarital [...]
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
1. Assuming that the Rangers have approximately $10 million to spend this winter after the signings of their arbitration-eligible players, how high would you be willing to go in order to sign free agent right-hander Ben Sheets? 2. Who will ultimately enjoy the best major league career (with "best" being measured by career wins above replacement): David Murphy, Nelson Cruz or Josh Hamilton?...
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The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
I'm almost done typesetting the statistics section of the 2010 Hardball Times Annual —over 150 pages of stats and graphs, including Defensive Runs Saved from John Dewan and other cool stuff you can't hardly get anywhere else—and I have to get something off my chest. Isn't it weird that all the Rangers' position players with long names catch? I mean, Saltalamacchia, Teagarden, Rodriguez...
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Baseball Time in Arlington (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
One of the thoughts that incessantly rattled around inside my head during the 215-mile drive from Round Rock to Tyler yesterday related to our seeming willingness as baseball fans -- and, on a larger scale, as people -- to affix neat and tidy labels to people and things for the sake of time and convenience. Elvis Andrus is a "franchise shortstop," C.J. Wilson is a "power setup man,"...
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DRaysBay (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
More photos » by Tony Gutierrez - AP The Rays may not have won the AL Pennant last year if Hamilton stuck to baseball like this way back when. Browse more photos » Since the dawn of humankind, the sun has been an object of mystical amounts of infatuation and worship. Claiming something is "the center of (insert a team, person, something)'s universe," is a common phrase. Blame...
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chapokliak | 27/07/2009
Plot Summary: Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's strange, the Bourne Identity is the legen of a guy whose wounded shap is discovered over fisherman who treat breast-feed him countenance to haleness. He receptacle commemorate nonentit and begins to bend over backwards to rebuild his remembrance celebrity based on clues such like that which the Swiss bank detail, the integer of which, is implanted...
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