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Papel-gone! Phils, Papelbon agree to 4 year, $50 million deal
Philadelphia gambles on now ex-Boston closer by giving him big bucks
SHANE SMITH
ESPN.com has reported that that the Phillies are walking away from last season’s closer Ryan Madson in favor of Boston closer Jonathan Papelbon. Papelbon will be signing a 4 year 50 million dollar contract to close for the Phillies.
Last season Papelbon experienced a decent [...]
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Underdog heavy LCS not good for MLB (or me)
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Maybe this is what separates the die hard baseball fan from the casual baseball fan. Maybe if I was a true, blue baseball fan I’d watch the Post-season no matter who was playing. So maybe this is the time for me to confess that I’ve (gulp) kind of stopped watching this year’s LCS. Not [...]
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Picking the 2011 MLB Post-season
And then there were 8. The MLB post-season opens tonight. Who will win it all? Our experts take their cracks at the playoff field and how it will all play out
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10 years after arguably the most unbelievable World Series ever played, Arizona and New York are both back in the playoffs. But is a [...]
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Radio: Madness in the Majors on Day 162 as Red Sox, Braves complete collapse; Rays, Cardinals Win Wild Card. Instant Analysis as we try to make sense of all of this
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An epic final day of the season! Rays come back from 7-0 down to win 8-7 in extras. Yankees fail the Red Sox, after Boston blows a 3-2 lead with 2 outs, and 2 strikes in the 9th to lowly Baltimore. Minutes later Rays win the AL Wild Card in absolutely [...]
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Radio: Analyzing Ozzie Guillen to the Marlins, small market baseball, and who will win the wild card race tonight in both the AL and NL
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Today is the last day of the 2011 MLB regular season. We may have tiebreakers I don’t know, but leave it to the Marlins to look ahead to 2012, when so many teams still have their eyes on the trophy in 2011. Today, the Miami Marlins of Florida (just kidding, I think) announced that [...]
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Taking the pulse of Red Sox Nation with Harvey Frommer
The Boston Globe best selling author takes time out of his busy schedule to talk Red Sox collapse, possible realignment, the dominance of Justin Verlander, why Mariano Rivera is NOT the most dominant pitcher of his generation, and who he’s pegging as the team to beat come October. Plus who would he rather have if [...]
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Nothing wild about this year’s forgettable Wild Card races
The Braves and AL East are running away with the Wild Card. Literally. Is this year just unusual? Yes, says previous August 19th standings dating back to 2002. Very, very unusual
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In 1994 Major League Baseball instituted the Wild Card, making room for a non-division winner to make the playoffs, and giving baseball a whole [...]
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Thome’s 600 home runs still leaves me skeptical
Was he clean? If so it’s a tremendous feat. Does 600 home runs make him a Hall of Famer? Let’s discuss
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To give you an idea of the watered down state of home runs and our Quiz Show-esque perception of them — mainly that we look afar with untrustworthy eyes — Jim Thome reaching the [...]
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