The baseball season is up and coming, and the power rankings for the 2006-2007 are here. Take a sneak peak of the new baseball rankings as we head into the new season. Where will your team end up?
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Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn, locks for the Hall of Fame, were officially announced as the only elected nominees for this year. This generation of players is the one that brought baseball back from the disastrous strike. While Ripken and Gwynn may be viewed as perfect citizens, Mark McGwire did more to bring the sport back than anybody else on the planet, and his record is just as clean.
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The Hall’s Blunder
The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown is the biggest disgrace to the game.
Never, not even in refusing to induct Pete Rose, has the Hall proven to be as flawed as it did today.
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Casting My Ballot
Let’s just say, for sake of argument, that the Baseball Writers Association of America ignored the fact that I am not actually a member of the BBWAA, although I pretend to be. And let’s just say, for sake of argument, that the BBWAA were willing to overlook the 10-year rule, in order for a member to become eligible to cast a ballot for the Hall of Fame voting.
I don’t know why they would bend these cornerstone rules for me, of all people, but let’s just say they did.
Then consider this my official ballot.
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Hope Springs Eternal In The Bay
by Trevor Freeman
On December 25th I was talking with my grandpa at the Freeman Family Christmas party. In his late 80s, he is suffering from lung cancer (despite the fact he never smoked) and does not resemble the lean, former collegiate track star I had always been used to. A lifelong San Francisco Giants fan he yearns for the World Series title that has eluded the cursed franchise since they left New York. The subject of Barry Zito came up and his exact words were, “If we could get him, then we’d have a real shot.”
As the new-year approaches, and the Jets, a punch line for ESPN lug heads [err, analysts] before the season began, continue to shock the football world, the Yankees made my Christmas, when their designs of trading the shriveling Unit leaked out to media outlets.
Why do I hate Randy Johnson?
Who should play first base for the Yankees in 2007?
Who the hell is Brad Halsey again?
The answers to these questions and more, right now!
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SAY GOODNIGHT TO THE BAD GUY
Here’s a major point of contention of mine. Concerning the rivalry, our great theater featuring the Red Sox and Yankees, battle lines have been drawn. We’ve painted mythical pictures, illustrations of villainy and courage, of conviction and cowardice.
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Oprah Hendry & The Cubs
Since they last won the World Series in 2000, the New York Yankees have spent $1 billion on players who, in the grand scheme of things, delivered nothing but headline material for the New York Post and proved that while you can sometimes buy competitiveness, you can never buy a championship.
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One Last Look At Our Barry Zito
by Trevor Freeman
I remember Bill Simmons once wrote that every city has a player who never quite lived up expectations. For Boston it was Drew Bledsoe. There are other names you can throw out there on both a pro and college level. Ron Pawlus at Notre Dame and Mike Bibby in Sacramento both come to mind. For fans of the Oakland A’s, there is only one guy who could possibly have this tag bestowed upon him. That man is Barry Zito.
As I sit here and get ready to watch the Mets, Rangers, Mariners or San Francisco Giants open up their wallets and bestow upon Barry Zito the money to last a lifetime, I felt it would be remiss if I didn’t use my featured writer status to write my thoughts on Barry Zito. If I didn’t take the time to provide my evaluation of the premier free agent left on the market.
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Generation Foolish
Sure, Carl Pavano has only pitched 100 innings in the last two years, making $1.175 million dollars per start. But while George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees may be perturbed, Pavano has revolutionized the game of baseball, financially. In 2005, the Yankees responsibly dealt with a four year championship drought by signing the “one-year wonder” Pavano, who along with a 4.21 ERA and 57-58 record, offered the opportunity for the Yankees to be the first franchise in any sport to have an annual payroll of over $200 million dollars (Or to some, 4/5 of Alex Rodriguez’s contract).