Saturday, January 29, 2005

Good morning

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Welcome to the weekend. Four new stories are worth attention. First, Dejan Kovacevic files his version of the funny water story. McClatchy...
Friday, January 28, 2005

Get Your Monkeys

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Tango posted a set of Marcel the Monkey forecasts . I should read Primer more often.

News from the Caravan

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Leeeny has posted .

3:36 pm

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Roger Mooney brings this great story in the Bradenton paper about the group of old-timers who gather 'round the old left-field wall to ...

Drank Some Funny Water

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Kevin McClatchy wants a salary cap . What was the context of these remarks? Here he looks skeptical last May . Evidently, no cameras were p...

Bobby Hill and Jose Castillo

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We need better defensive statistics. We often hear about how bad or limited Bobby Hill looks out at second, and how good or promising Jose C...

Friday Piracy news

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Rob Biertempfel tells us about Ollie's offseason . Sam Ross Jr. reports on the Caravan . Dejan does as well for the PG . Kovacevic also ...
Thursday, January 27, 2005

Leeeny off schmoozing

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I'll be curious to hear how her Thursday night schmooze session went .

P1r4t3s

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Via Boing Boing , Pirates of the Caribbean, translated into "hacker." Gibbs: d00d y0u w4nt teh bl4ck p34rl 4g4in????// Cap...

Pitchouts

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I'm not a big fan of the Bill James Handbook, which I purchased, sight unseen, because I heard it had lefty/righty splits for ballpark e...
Wednesday, January 26, 2005

John Perrotto all burnt out

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John Perrotto taunts the rest of the staff in the toy department. Obviously, I think, he doesn't "get it." File that one un...

JVB out

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No maybes about it. Ed Eagle has the story .

PECOTA projections released

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By the email they send to subscribers, I was just told that Baseball Prospectus has released their 2005 50th-percentile PECOTA projections. ...

Eagle on the outfield

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Ed Eagle reviews the outfield situation . Eagle talks in plain language about Tike Redman's disappointing defense. The headline for Eag...

Read the book, Anthony

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Another great Q & A with DAY-un Kovacevic . I share the optimism for Jose Castillo. One Anthony gets a nice read-the-friggin'-manu...

JVB, torn labrum, same sentence

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Dejan reporting bad news.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

All hail Mike Webster

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Greg Garber's five-part biography begins here . Rest in peace, Mike.

Bucs add Ben Grieve

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Some of you predicted this - kudos for that. Red rover, red rover, Ben Grieve come over. Grieve, the 1998 AL Rookie of the Year, will pro...
Monday, January 24, 2005

Congratulations 2005 World Champion Pittsburgh Steelers!

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Steeler fans everywhere awoke this morning hungover and beaming with pride, basking in the beatific vision of another world championship. ...

Baseball America: Bucs top ten prospects

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John Perrotto, of Beaver County Times fame, previews the Bucs' top ten prospects here . I won't pretend to know more about this than...