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			    <title>Arizona Diamondbacks | National League | MLB | Juiced Sports News</title> 
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			<title>Corbin (7-0) confounds Rockies with 10 K&#039;s</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/corbin-70-confounds-rockies-with-10-ks</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Patrick Corbin tossed a three-hitter for his first  complete game, lifting the Arizona  Diamondbacks to a 5-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 01:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>D-backs&#039; Corbin shuts out Braves</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Patrick Corbin allowed three hits in seven innings and the
Arizona Diamondbacks turned an infield double into two runs to beat
the Atlanta Braves 2-0 Tuesday night.


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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Girls Generation Is Still Terrible At First Pitches</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As an unapologetic stan for The Wonder Girls, I like to throw shade at Girls Generation whenever I can.  Last year, I got my first opportunity to turn a sports comedy blog into a Korean teenager’s Tumblr when Jessica Jung wound up for a dramatic first pitch and got it about four inches before it hit dirt. I laughed and laughed, and took joy in the momentary failure of a rich pretty lady who probably didn’t give a shit.Fast forward a year and history is repeating itself.Tiffany Hwang of Girls’ Generation was tasked with throwing out the first pitch at Monday’s Los Angeles Dodgers/Arizona Diamondbacks game.  She wore cat ears.  She had a dramatic wind-up, just like Jessica Jung.  She impressed the crowd by firing in a strike, and hahahaha no she didn’t.  Here’s the clip:Your browser does not support iframes.Well, she did better than Jessica, at least. Maybe if we put all nine girls on the mound at once, their combined strength could get the ball to home plate.  (How are these esoteric K-Pop jokes working out for you?  Good?)Here’s the Vine version, if you’d like to pretend you’re having a stroke while watching a Dodgers game.[h/t to Sportress]The post Girls Generation Is Still Terrible At First Pitches appeared first on With Leather.
    
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 10:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>D-backs beat Dodgers on HR in 9th</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Paul Goldschmidt hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the ninth
inning off closer Brandon League and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat
the Dodgers 5-3 on Tuesday night, sending last-place Los Angeles to
its sixth straight loss.


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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 03:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Capuano activated, Mark Ellis to DL</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/capuano-activated-mark-ellis-to-dl</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Dodgers have activated left-hander Chris Capuano
to start a series opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks.


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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 23:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Giants&#039; Belt breaks tie in 8th inning</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Brandon Belt hit a two-run single in the eighth inning, helping
the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-4 Monday
night to end a five-game losing streak.


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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 02:00:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Schilling&#039;s Shitty Video Game Company: A Case Study In Bad Delusions</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Originally published in Bloomberg View
The New York Times published an excellent account on Sunday of how Curt Schilling bilked the taxpayers of Rhode Island out of millions of dollars to subsidize his now-defunct company, 38 Studios LLC. Unfortunately, there was something missing from the story: Schilling himself, who declined to speak to the reporter.
The good news is that before the company fell apart, Schilling and some of his employees spoke extensively to a few researchers from Harvard Business School. Their case study, published in 2009, is available for only $6.95. It’s worth every penny, particularly if you are a fan of Kingsley Amis-style satire.
Schilling got the idea for 38 Studios while playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks in the early 2000s. By then he was well into his pitching career, and starting to wonder what he might do next. An aspiring businessman and budding philanthropist, Schilling thought of himself as a kind of—well, let’s allow him to make the comparison: “I wanted to make a difference in the world and take one shot at getting Bill-Gates-rich,” he told the study’s authors.
When Schilling informed his financial adviser of his ambitions, his adviser responded, with Tony Robbins savvy, that he just needed to find something that he was passionate about and the money would flow. Schilling’s thoughts turned, inevitably, to video games.
He was soon networking with game-development executives and devouring books about leadership. “The thing that jumped out at me was, there’s a broad swath of parallels between winning a world championship and creating a company that’s best of breed,” Schilling said. In other words: He could do this!
Schilling didn’t just want to develop a video game, let alone a sports-based one. He wanted to develop the most complex kind of video game possible—a “massively multiplayer online role-playing game,” in which thousands of users interact inside an elaborately conceived and designed fantasy world. He wasn’t going to skimp on the back story, either (even though most people who play these games tend to click quickly through the text to get to the action). There would be 10,000 years’ worth of it, all dreamed up by a best-selling fantasy author, R.A. Salvatore, and a well-known comic book writer, Todd McFarlane. They would be co-founders of the company—though Schilling preferred the title “co-visionaries.”
Schilling had no idea how much time and money it took to build the software required for such a game. And he didn’t exactly help matters by weighing in with suggestions of his own. There was, for example, that instance when he mentioned in an e-mail that it might be cool to have mounted combat on flying pigs. The design team worked on nothing else for a week.
Indeed, Schilling didn’t know the first thing about the world outside baseball. That’s not hyperbole: He once asked the president of 38 Studios if employees got weekends off. Another time he suggested that they work 14 days straight so as not to lose their momentum. (No need for travel days when you’re playing only home games!) Schilling was so clueless that he had to be told by his wife’s uncle, a retired corporate executive, not to personally guarantee the company’s lease.
Schilling filled his board with family members and, to the dismay of his president, promised employees half of 38 Studios’ (notional) profits. He also insisted on retaining majority control of the company—which became something of a problem when he started his search for outside investors.
He tried just about every high-tech venture capital firm in Boston, not to mention the governor of Massachusetts, to no avail. No matter. This was Curt Schilling, the man who had pitched the Boston Red Sox to their first world championship in 86 years—in a bloody sock, no less. He wasn’t going to give up. “I have no doubt I am on the cusp of creating a multimillion-dollar company,” he told the report’s authors in 2009.
Less than a year later, Schilling had persuaded the star- struck governor of Rhode Island, Don Carcieri, to issue $75 million in tax-free bonds for 38 Studios. That’s when “the Big Blowhard”—as Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy once called Schilling—officially transcended the familiar narrative of the ex-athlete as failed businessman. He wasn’t losing his own fortune on a bad investment, a failed car dealership or an ill-conceived restaurant franchise. He was fleecing taxpayers in order to realize his deluded dreams.
What has become of those dreams? The 38 Studios deal is now under criminal investigation, and Carcieri’s successor, Governor Lincoln Chafee, is suing Schilling for misleading the state’s economic development agency about his company’s finances.
That’s what happens when you buy into your own mythology. It didn’t matter whether he was mowing down hitters or building a multimillion-dollar video-game company, Schilling believed he could do anything. He was a proven winner. An overcomer of obstacles. A leader of men.
Guess what, Curt? It turns out you’re just an ex-pitcher who has managed to inflict some pretty serious financial damage on an entire state—and landed yourself in a whole heap of trouble along the way.

Jonathan Mahler is a sports columnist for Bloomberg View. A long-time contributor to The New York Times Magazine, he is the author of the best-selling Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, The Challenge, and Death Comes to Happy Valley. He&#039;s @jonathanmahleron Twitter.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:05 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>Rockies&#039; hot streak continues</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Jhoulys Chacin pitched effectively into the seventh inning and
became the first Rockies starter to throw 100 pitches in a game
since last June before leaving with an injury as Colorado beat the
Arizona Diamondbacks 3-1 Friday night.


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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:30:01 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>D-backs&#039; 2B Aaron Hill out 4-6 weeks</title>
			<link>http://juicedsportsblog.com/sports-news/news/dbacks-2b-aaron-hill-out-46-weeks</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Aaron Hill is expected to
miss from four to six weeks because of a broken left hand.


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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:30:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title>D-backs place Kubel on DL</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Diamondbacks have placed outfielder Jason Kubel on
the 15-day disabled list with a strained left quadriceps and
activated outfielder Cody Ross.


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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:30:06 EDT</pubDate>
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