For weeks now, we’ve been reading about who isn’t going to play in the World Baseball Classic.  Finally, we know who is. As one might expect, there will be quite a delegation from the New York teams.  Most notably, the Yanks will be sending A-Roid, Robbie and Demaso Marte, all on behalf of the DR.  [...]

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About a month ago, we thought that Stephon Marbury might be packing his bags and moving to Greece-one of the few countries where people speak a language that’s as hard to decipher as his own. Now, instead, it looks just about official that Marbury will be on his way to Boston.  Yes, Boston.  Sort of [...]

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I watched an episode of this show the other night. I’m here to tell you not to make the same mistake. The show is about a pathetic retired baseball player with a checkered past–a past involving everything from steroids to  alcohol abuse to tirades à la Johhny Rocker. So, basically, it’s the same as SportsCenter.  [...]

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It should come as no surprise that Mariano Rivera cleaned up at the Yankees’ day of pool hall fun yesterday. After all, Mo was genetically designed to be better than everyone at everything.  (As evidenced by his crazy skills in the areas of pitching and preaching the word of God.) Upper-deki did not have quite [...]

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I don’t think I get how they do things in Flushing. Yesterday, Jerry Manuel went up to Ryan Church as he was warming up and told him that he was “getting ready to be the rightfielder for the New York Mets.” Church told him he knew that. Really? Because I didn’t know that.  How would [...]

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Yesterday, I wrote about Mark Newman’s unfortunate attempt to link the Oscars to Spring Training.  The irony is that, while Newman struggled in vain to do this in a way that wasn’t incredibly far-reaching, the story was right there in front of him all the time. In November, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed two pitchers from [...]

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After four months of vacation and five solid days of work, Joe Girardi thought it was time to give his boys some much needed rest.  So in lieu of their regular training, he decided to take them to a pool hall. All kidding aside, it’s not the worst idea in the world.  The Torre book [...]

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Admittedly, I’ve never been a public figure.  I haven’t had the good fortune to be a professional athlete either.  And I’ve certainly never had a specialty strength trainer to enhance my personal steroids regime.  Still, there are aspects of this relationship that confuse me in ways I think they shouldn’t. For starters, if you have [...]

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A headline on the front page of today’s mlb.com reads “Baseball mirrors Oscar’s journey.” Mind-numbing stupidity intrigues me, so I read on. The thesis of the piece was that actors and baseball players aren’t all that different-they’re just a bunch of people who like to reference where they come from when discussing the fact that [...]

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If Manny Ramirez was capable of understanding reason, I would tell him that he should take a lesson from his fellow free agents–when the economy’s gone to crapelbon, it’s not a great time to be overly demanding.   Take what you can get. Then, say, “thanks.” Because someone offered you $25 million to play baseball. But [...]

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