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Maybe his Giants hat was in the wash

Billy Wagner is officially the man, and the man is pissed that his teammates don’t talk to the media after games. After the Mets lost (again) to the Nationals last night Wagner not only offered game commentary, he blasted his teammates for hiding from reporters. He then spoke for 12 minutes on his weekly radio […]

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Breaking Down Sports by the Bay

The San Jose Sharks lost in the playoffs the Dallas Stars. Every year this team looks like a favorite to win the Stanley Cup, and every year they fail miserably. Its kind of like watching Indiana Jones trying to grab the grail, and just falling short. The real issue is lack of […]

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A Fan’s Dilemma

Is there ever a weirder day in fandom than when your team inexplicably signs a guy you can’t stand? There really isn’t anything in life that I can compare it to, and all the analogies I can think of seem wildly inappropriate (most of these involve either Nazis or people that still fly confederate flags.)  […]

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Afraid you’ll break a nail?

Remember in elementary school when you used to pick on the girls who wouldn’t play sports at recess.
"What are you, afraid you’re gonna break a nail?"
Apparantly, even in Major League Baseball, breaking a fingernail is reason enough not to play.
The Red Sox placed rookie pitcher Clay Buchholz on the 15-day DL due to a broken […]

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Yet another reason to relocate

A dark and desolate fog seems to have descended upon the world of New York sports. D’Antoni is about to try and run his Fun n’ Gun offense with a bunch of fat, lazy, delinquent and overpaid players (Curry, Randolph and Marbury, in that order). The Yankees are floundering while A-rod nurses himself back to […]

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Barry Zito receives no-decison. This is in fact noteworthy.

Rejoice, San Francisco. Barry Zito did not get the loss.
Yesterday, Zito, who’s 0-7 and is getting paid $18 million a year to achieve such a potent winning percentage, received a no-decision for the first time all year.
This no-decision, that came in an eventual 7-3 loss to the Astros, is a big step. Is an actual […]

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Obscure Stat of the Day: Bad Things Come in Threes

May is the most prolific month for triple plays with 126 occuring during the second month of the season.
May has also hosted 5 out of 14 unassisted triple plays in baseball history, the most of any month.
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