Baseball, Not Raceball
Does Sports Illustrated Care That David Price is Talented, or Just That He’s Black?
MITCH BLATTĀ
Sports Illustrated’s story published today titled “Young, Gifted, and Black,” isn’t the source of problems with race in baseball; it is simply the latest example of that problem. The problem, as SI would have us believe, is that Major League […]
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A Manny trade to the Marlins might not be what Florida needs
Rumored deal that would send enigmatic Manny Ramirez to South Florida may not be in the team’s best interests
SCOTT JACOBS
If you follow baseball, you’ve heard the rumor. The Marlins, Red Sox, and Pirates are talking a blockbuster three team swap that would net Florida Manny Ramirez.
I’m going to say something that might surprise […]
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Teixeira Traded to Angels
My source proved correct in telling me that Teixeira would be traded today and predicting the Angels as the probable team to get him. He was traded for Casey Kotchman and minor league pitcher Steven Marek. With Teixeira’s free agency coming up, my source predicts the Angels will be able to resign him […]
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MLB Trade Insider - Mark Teixeira to Diamondbacks?
The news today from my inside source is that Mark Teixeira may be traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The players the Diamondbacks would have to give up include pitcher Jarrod Parker and first baseman Chad Tracy. Pitcher Max Scherzer has also been mentioned in some rumors, but he is not likely to be a part […]
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Manny Ramirez Coming Back to Cleveland?
Manny Ramirez has been asking for trades on and off every year since coming to the Red Sox, but now it’s for real. The Red Sox really want to trade him, but they probably won’t find a buyer, according to my sources and other sources.
The Sox couldn’t trade him in his prime, so they […]
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ESPN’s Useless Stat of the Day — Why the Cubs Won’t Win the World Series
The Cubs have the best record in the National League and the second best record in baseball. So why can’t you consider them a World Series contender?
Because of this useless stat, brought to you by ESPN:
The Cubs became the first team in the National League to win 60 games. The last time the […]
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Bold predictions for MLB’s second half
Picks so risky you’ll be saying, ‘did he really just say that?”
SCOTT JACOBS
The Indians will not be in the World Series as I predicted at the start of the year… so who’s got the best shot?… O, cmon, did you really think I was going to answer that in the first line? No way […]
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Midweek Ramblings
All-Star Game
Alright guys, good All-Star Game last night. It ended well past 12, in the 15th inning with the AL winning, once again proving the giving home field advantage to the winner does have the advantage of letting the best team (i.e. the AL team) have home field advantage in the World Series. […]
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