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Another All-Star Game bonus
With the extended four day AS break, fans of traditional baseball get an added bonus. Starting pitchers that start that final Sunday game before the break are precluded from pitching in the big game on Tuesday and I guess that’s a good thing. But with that four day break the starters making their final start…
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40 years ago, yesterday!
I come neither to bury the White Sox nor praise them, but rather to point out an interesting fact. Last night they were swept by the Toronto Blue Jays in a makeshift doubleheader. Forty years ago to the date, Blue Jays starter, Dave Stieb earned the victory after 3 innings in a 13-3 victory at…
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Kind of big news…
As has been pointed out in the attached article, Marcus Stroman had already opted out of participating in next week’s ASG in Seattle. Everything he says makes complete sense and is what you’d like to hear from any professional athlete making a bundle of doremi. I’m sure some fans will be disappointed to read the…
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What’s a poor Cub fan supposed to do?
The Cubs head to New York to take on the Yankees in a three-game set having just burned their two best starters, Justin Steele and Marcus Stroman. The odds favor the Yankees, but baseball may intervene. The bigger more troubling news is the arrival of the Cardinals in Chicago. St. Louis comes to town with…
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Pick a rivalry, any rivalry
I’ll take the Cubs-Brewers rivalry since the Brewers joined the NL in 1998. The networks prefer two teams that have played and won more WS titles and I get that to a degree, but how easy is it to get to and from NYC to Boston, or Los Angeles to SF? When both the Giants…
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Fun math Part I
There’s a generation of oldsters, let’s call them the Topps Generation, who enhanced our math skills by memorizing the backs of baseball cards. Maybe this proficiency with quicky multiplication and conversion from decimals to fractions didn’t aid us in algebra, calculus or architecture, but it was fun. As I type this 57% of White Sox…
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Hotdogs, fireworks, and baseball
More Americans probably are going to watch fireworks, have a hotdog, watch a game or attend a parade today because that’s what most of us do on Independence Day. There’s even a possibility that we’ll indulge in multiple activities. Unlike the other national holidays, Independence Day is inconveniently celebrated on the 4th of July, regardless…
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Minor League baseball is fun.
It’s a virtue to not take yourself too seriously. Some wonderful people haven’t mastered the art, but can’t be blamed. There’s a strong possibility that laughing isn’t their first response to any situation. Don’t get me started on the many ways that MLB and the powers that be, take themselves way too seriously. The minors…
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Pleasant surprises, and surprises
Due to injuries and starting pitchers making starts next Sunday, the just-released All-Star teams aren’t set in stone. I haven’t had a lot of time to get worked up over omissions and mistakes, but I’m pleasantly surprised by some of the names on and off the list. Without doing any research, I can’t recall the…
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A unicorn, yeti and Henry Kissinger walk into a bar.
Yankee starting pitcher Domingo German threw the 22nd perfect game since 1903. There were two thrown in the 1880’s, but the rules were different then. While a perfect game doesn’t ensure future success, 7 HOFer’s have achieved the feat. There’s no rhyme or reason as to who will throw when and under what circumstances. Without…
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 