Saturday, May 28, 2005

Game 47: Pirates at Reds

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7:10pm, Dave Williams and Eric Milton. Milton has not been striking out or walking many batters; hitters have been making regular and solid ...

On performance-enhancing drugs

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Read this article, "A Day at the Brain Spa," by Ronald Bailey for Reason online . The executive could also work in a cup or two of...
Friday, May 27, 2005

Another one-run game

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Bucs are now 3-11 in one-run games. Last year they were 20-26 in one-run games. Not sure what else to say about that. Sucks to lose.

Game 46: Pirates at Reds

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7:10pm. Josh Fogg and Ramon Ortiz. I was pretty happy when I learned that the Reds signed Ramon Ortiz. So I could say, I've been looking...

Mackowiak

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Dejan Kovacevic reports on the ongoing development of Rob Mackowiak . I noticed some of these trends last week . Now Kovacevic explains what...
Thursday, May 26, 2005

Game 45: Pirates at Reds

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Seven o'clock, Oliver Perez at Elizardo Ramirez.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Zen and Zing

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Nice piece by Jonathan Mayo on the friendship of Duke and Snell .

Game 44: Pirates at Cardinals

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8:10pm. Mark Redman and Mark Mulder. Mulder has been in a groove.

On parity

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Yesterday's Stats Geek . One factor in the distribution of championships, I think, is the expanded playoff format. Most anything can hap...

Wednesday Q & A

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Here it is .
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Game 43: Pirates at Cardinals

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8:10pm. Kip Wells and Jason Marquis. Marquis has been wild. In his last four starts, he has K'd 8 and walked 11 in 25 innings. He's ...

Eric Byrnes and Ken Macha

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So the A's are back to peddling Eric Byrnes . An interesting subplot now is the possibility that he's on the block because he and hi...

Bucco pitching, May 3 to May 23

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Looking at the numbers for the last three weeks, I see that the pitching has been good, but not as good as I thought it had been. Mark R...
Monday, May 23, 2005

Zach Duke surgery

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The doctor went to work in Durham . A little here, a little there, sew the patient up, all in a day's work. When's the last time a 2...

Thoughts on the loss

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Damn, the Cardinals have some good players. You just cannot give RBI opportunities to Albert Pujols. You cannot give Larry Walker an inch on...

Game 42: Pirates at Cardinals

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8:10pm. Dave Williams and Chris Carpenter. This is the first of a three-game series with the team that's running away with the NL Centra...

Minor-league update

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Dejan Kovacevic has some news in today's notebook.
Sunday, May 22, 2005

Game 41: Rockies at Pirates

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1:35pm. More perfect weather forecast, for the afternoon at least. Joe Kennedy and Josh Fogg.
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Game 40: Rockies at Pirates

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7:05pm. Perfect weather forecast. Jason Jennings and Oliver Perez.
Friday, May 20, 2005

Game 39: Rookies at Pirates

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7:05pm. Wright and Redman. I was tuned into a Rockies game the other day. The announcer, a good homer, read an email from a fan asking if th...