It shouldn’t be that easy. A leap over the top of a flat outfield fence is not meant to look like poetry in motion. Home run swings aren’t supposed to have a natural rhythm. Speed should not have equality with instincts. One is supposed to cover for the other. No one is supposed to be perfect. But yet, the images of a player who was more like a masterpiece still flow through the minds of Baseball fans everywhere.
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Bonds Walks Again
Barry Bonds is more juiced than a freshly squeezed glass of Tropicana.
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Here we go again….
One week into a season, it’s a little unusual to see two teams with sub-par records hate each other so intensely. Unless, of course, you’re the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees.
BOSTON (April 14) – After being routed by their sworn enemy the Yankees, Boston declared April 13 as the date for the collective recognition that both the Red Sox franchise and their fans are, in fact, idiots.
by Dominic Lombardi
Jason Ellison’s crucial error in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the LA Dodgers a win in their home opener might be bigger than it seems.
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The Boys Are Back in Town…
“Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.” -Dante, on the baseball off-season
“What you have to remember is that a baseball isn’t a week or a month, but a season. And a season is a long time.” -Chuck Tanner
Last year on January 1, I ignored a garden-variety New Year’s Eve hangover in favor of enjoying all-day college football, Bloody Mary’s, and cheese fries with my then-boyfriend and company. He and his buddy started out ordering Irish Car Bombs. Right before downing this asinine drink I still can’t get my head around, Ex says to Idiot Friend: “This drink is arguably the most important drink of the day. How this goes down dictates the rest of the afternoon. Maybe the rest of the year.”
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MLB Power Rankings April 11th 2005
From Braden Looper’s infinity ERA after the Met’s opener to John Smoltz coming back from a terrible first outing to strike out 15, yet lose to an equal Pedro to the Red Sox World Series ring ceremony Monday, you couldn’t have hoped for much more out of the opening week of the MLB. Here are the power rankings after that first week.
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It’s Never Just Three Games
The Yankees and Red Sox untangled themselves Wednesday like familiar heavy weight fighters finishing the first round of their latest title bout.
It used to be one of the strengths of the team. It used to be one of the only aspects of the team that one could count on. So why is the relief pitching such a dreadful experience in Philadelphia lately?
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Turning a Positive into a Negative
It seemed so sweet at the time. Both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were on their “Magical Mystery Homerun Tour” each doing their best to revive America’s pastime from the dead. Revive is what they did, but no one knew how. Yet, some might have a clue today as to how they went about their business back in that magical summer of ’98. The game of baseball had seemed so innocent at the time. Everyone had been aware of McGwire power ability, and Sosa’s lovability. People were even aware of McGwire taking androstenedione – which at the time was not on the banned substances list for Major League Baseball. Yet, people had no clue what might have been in the lovable Sammy Sosa’s bat. Fans weren’t aware of baseball’s drug all of the players were all seemingly using, and they sure as hell weren’t aware of baseball players’ secret hangout place called BALCO.