Only the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl rival spring training in terms of useless news and information. During the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, we hear stories like X player reads the Harry Potter books or Y player eats four egg whites and two slices of whole wheat toast before every [...]
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Whoever had under five hours in the “How soon into spring training will Josh Hamilton suffer an injury” office pool is a winner. On the first day of full-squad workouts at the Texas Rangers camp, Hamilton suffered a left shoulder contusion diving for a ball during outfield drills. What on earth is Hamilton doing diving [...]
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Now that every major free agent has signed and most teams have their roster set, I think it’s now time to hand out some offseason grades. I will go with your standard A,B,C, etc..grading format and I will start in the National League. St. Louis Cardinals: Grade: A I love the fact that the Cardinals [...]
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Yesterday, my buddy Jude called me with a fantasy baseball question. He has the second pick in his draft and he wondered who he should take? Alex Rodriguez or Hanley Ramirez. His league is a standard league, 10 team, and a 5X5 format. Albert Pujols, of course was going to be picked No.1 overall, so [...]
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The Cincinnati Reds feeling they needed a right-handed power bat, decided to bring back a slugger who had a pretty good year for them in 2009. According to ESPN.com, the Reds have brought back right-handed hitting outfielder Jonny Gomes on a one-year contract worth $800,000. The contract also includes a $1.75 million club option for [...]
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As many of you know, I was on the NY Baseball Live radio show with Joe Boesch on Sunday night. For those of you who are not familiar with the show, it’s a program on WGBB 1240 AM in New York that focuses just on baseball. I was on with Joe for about 20 minutes [...]
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