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The Break
Baseball is dead, but don’t tell the record-number of fans that are snapping up Steven Strasburg jerseys, or the one that paid $16,000 for his rookie card. Forget the revitalization of baseball in Washington D.C., the first half of the 2010 season has been both thrilling and unpredictable. Since...
Grading Mark Richt's First Ten Years With the Georgia Bulldogs (Part II)
We are halfway through our year-end review of Mark Richt’s performance as the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs after a decade on the job. In the first installment, we compared Coach Richt’s records against specific opponents to those of his predecessors in the first ten years of each of their...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Tropicana Field Again Welcomes Georgia Fans on Holiday
My wife and I have established a pattern for our annual family vacation to Florida. We drive as far as my parents’ house in South Georgia on the first day, stay with my folks, awaken at a ludicrous hour in the dead of night, and drive as long as possible before the kids awaken. This leads,...
National League 3, American League 1: McCann delivers in the clutch to end the streak
The streak is finally over. For the first time since 1996, the National League walked away from the All-Star Game victorious, beating the American League 3-1 and securing home field advantage in the 2010 World Series in the process. The Braves' Brian McCann took home MVP honors by delivering a...
Back in the Saddle . . . With a Look at the Rays and the Jays
I may not be tanned, rested, and ready, but I’m sunburned, soggy, and home, which is close enough. Naturally, it would be remiss of me not to thank MaconDawg for his usual fine work in my absence, and I am especially grateful to regular readers and commenters AuditDawg, DavetheDawg, donkeydawg,...
Rays 12, Rockies 4: Tampa Bay pounds Colorado back down to earth
Twelve runs, seventeen hits, and five home runs later, the streak is gone. Just like that. If it wasn't already well known that days off kill Rockies winning streaks, it's definitely well known now. BJ Upton, Ben Zobrist, and Gabe Kapler each pounded out three hits, and Jason Bartlett and Dioner...
Rockies Retro: Interleague play
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Do these look like All-Star numbers to you?
.218 7 HR 27 RBI 70 KsApparently these are the type of numbers that get you a place on the 2008 AL All-Star team.This wasn't a case of overzealous fans stuffing the ballot for their guys. It was the players who dropped the ball on this one. Maybe they thought that the Red Sox needed to be...
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