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Lyle Spencer Twitter Orgy of Jeff Mathis Love Embarrasses All Who Cover the Game
In case you are just joining us, Major League Baseball employs a baseball writer to cover the Angels named Lyle Spencer. If you were directing a movie about Lyle's relationship to Angels fans and you called central casting and asked for a crusty, backward dinosaur so blinded by the smug arrogance...
Jeff Francoeur Is Just What The Mets Needed?
Jeff Francoeur has played all of twelve games with the Mets, posting a modest but encouraging .817 OPS. Too soon to call it a win for the Mets? Too soon to look at his statistics as if they are any way predictive? Too soon to post a sparkly magic pony picture of him rubbing his grissiony chin? None...
The ongoing mystery of Nolan Ryan and Ranger pitch counts
Gary Thorne has a column in USA Today about Nolan Ryan putting an end to these wimpy pitch counts and teaching pitchers to be real men. Or at least, that's the tone that suffuses what seems to me to be a rather shallow and ridiculous piece, which we can examine, FJM-style: Under the...
Productive Gangsta Outs>Hits
Marty Noble brings out all of our favorite cliches, just in time for the spring! Among the defeats the Mets endured during their September slide last season was one that particularly distressed their manager, because he was certain that it could have been averted had his hitters not adhered to...
Hard Times with Brady and Gisele
There comes a time in every man's life when he must stand up to injustice. When he must cast off his doubt and inhibitions, and forcefully raise his voice. When he must rise from the desk of ignorance, dash to the phone booth of revelation, and emerge as a defender of Truth, Justice, and the...
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