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The Mets Narratives: Apocalypse or Benny Hill
On Friday, Ken Rosenthal reported that Jose Reyes had met with feared uber-agent Scott Boras, presumably to discuss switching representation. This set in motion a series of events that seemed as if they were laboratory engineered just to anger me. They were also representative of how, far too...
Maybe Ozzie Guillen Might Have Thought About Maybe Quitting
Or Maybe He Just Needed to Vent I don't have much patience for covering the every word of Ozzie Guillen. When you listen to him talk, you quickly realize that most of it is just that, talk. It makes good copy. He's plenty entertaining and always unpredictable. But I just don't care to cover...
Media Pillories Steroids During Happy Hour for DUI Athletes
There are Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. I am in the Angry stage. In his every plate appearance at Angel Stadium in this tragically-abbreviated home stand, Oakland's Jason Giambi was booed heartily by a baseball public sick of steroid abuse and the...
Eric Collins to Call 38 Dodger Games in 2009
The Dodgers today hired Eric Collins as their fill-in announcer for the 38 games on KCAL or FSN Prime Ticket not announced by Vin Scully. Collins will work with Steve Lyons in those games. Collins won the job from a group of six announcers that were given auditions this spring.From the press...
On The Media Vultures Circling Guillen
I don't get it. Ozzie Guillen goes off following a terrible offensive series--a series which saw the Sox go 5-41 with runners in scoring position and strand runners who reached scoring position with nobody out on 5 separate occasions in the last two games--yet the narrative from the local and...
Tigers Bloggers on the Radio!
I'm not giving you guys much lead time on this, but when something exciting happens for a Detroit Tigers blogger, it's certainly noteworthy. Bill Ferris of The Detroit Tigers Weblog will be a guest on WDFN this morning, appearing on Sean Baligian's show at approximately 10:35 a.m. This could be a...
Does Detroit Want Any Barry Bonds Business?
Should the Detroit Tigers sign Barry Bonds? It's a topic that seems to be gaining popularity in baseball circles. Eric Karabell and Peter Pascarelli discussed it last Friday on the ESPN "Baseball Today" podcast. Mark Grace and Kevin Kennedy batted it around on the FOX post-game show, following...
BYB Does Ball Star
As a footnote to yesterday's interview with the Kansas City Star's Sam Mellinger, he only agreed to be interviewed by me if I would answer a few questions for him, as well. Sam really had to twist my arm, as you know how I prefer not to talk about myself. That's why I got into blogging, to keep...
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