Category: Uncategorized
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Trend or coincidence?
Within one week, two #1 seeds, the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Bruins, were ousted from their respective playoffs in the first round. Only a few months ago, #1 Purdue was beaten by Farleigh Dickinson in the round of 64 for only the second time in NCAA history. Is the rise of the ultimate underdog a…
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You can’t judge a book by its numbers
What would you expect if I told you one team had 17 total bases and one player hit 2 two-run homers and drove in 5 runs and the other team only had 7 total bases? Yesterday afternoon, friend David and I headed north of the border to see the Brewers host Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani…
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Tradition..
Even younger fans obsessed with capturing everything on their smart phones and then social media, appreciate some traditions. Spend five minutes in and around Wrigley Field and you’ll see hundreds of people capturing all of the landmarks and traditional aspects of Wrigley. People love the statues, the marquee on the facade, the ivy, the flagpoles,…
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How much do the Bears mean to Chicago?
Sox rookie manager Pedro Grifol owes the Bears big time. Were the Bears not in the middle of the NFL draft making all sorts of questionable decisions, the local media might be forced to talk and write about the Sox. We all use distractions to our advantage, whether it’s to switch subjects during a cocktail…
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I wouldn’t have it any other way
This being 2023, the Miami Marlins are celebrating their 30th anniversary. Tonight, they have a Friday flashback and are highlighting the 2003 Champs. Those champs famously defeated the Cubs in the NLCS.
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Mock schmock
All the experts got the first round of the NFL draft wrong and all the smart guys “betting” on where who would land really lost their shirts. Ain’t legalized sports gambling grand!
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I’d be a little worried.
I know if you are a White Sox fan it’s way too early to write off the 2023 season because the AL Central is the worst in baseball. Have you heard that one yet? I have 2,176 times and I don’t “follow” the Sox. What should worry Sox fans is the lack of a quality…
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The pressure of being in a two-team city.
Some baseball owners like Steve Cohen of the Mets blatantly react to what the other team in town does. He can’t help but compare the number of stories written about his Mets and the Yankees. Forget about the new scheduling, the Mets and Yankees have been rivals for years. I think fans and the media…
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Doing the time warp.
If you have paid any attention to the ML scene to date, you’ve heard about how hot the Tampa Bay Rays are. They opened the season with 13 straight victories tying a modern-day record. Yesterday, they finally lost their first home game. All this greatness didn’t come immediately for the Rays. Twenty-five years ago, the…
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League leaders.
One of the unintended consequences of the speedier games is the paucity of meaningful graphics on TV broadcasts. In more than a few instances, TV has missed the first couple of pitches coming back from break. In principle, that’s not the worst thing in the world. However, TV’s inability to show replays does detract from…
I'd rather be sitting in a ballpark. 