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Cliff Lee is like LeBron James, or something, because he returned to his former team rather than signing with the perenial World Series contending Yankees, who have the highest payroll

Why does not signing with the Yankees cause half the baseball media to hate you?
MITCH BLATT
So Cliff Lee just chose the Philadelphia Phillies over the New York Yankees, who were offering him more, and returned to his former team from 2009.
Naturally, a player not signing with the team with the largest payroll in baseball and [...]

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The Playoffs are here: Who has 11 more wins in them?

Juiced Sports found asked their experts to shine some light on what should be an interesting postseason.  Here’s what they’re predicting
SCOTT JACOBS
All 162 games for each respective MLB team is in the books, and the Giants made sure that not a single regular season game more would be needed to determine this year’s 8 playoff [...]

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What in the world is going on here?

The Titans 5-0? The Rays four wins away from the World Series? The Giants actually showing they’re better then last year? In the words of someone far more famous than I, “What the hell is going on here?”
SCOTT JACOBS
Hey guys! Welcome back to the program. Consider our two day [...]

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HooRAY for Tampa Bay

The Rays roll right into the ALCS with an impressive series victory over the White Sox, and guess what? They just might go all the way
SCOTT JACOBS
Goodbye laughingstock, hello final four.
If there was ever a doubt that the Tampa Bay Rays were for real, even as we entered the post-season, those doubts have [...]

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We’re going sweeping!

Three days into the playoffs, and we’re possibly looking at an astonishing four sweeps
SCOTT JACOBS
The only thing more frustrating then the start of these 2008 MLB playoffs is the bombardment of annoying Frank TV ads that we the sports fan have to suffer through every other commercial. O yeah, there’s also been the stunningly boring [...]

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Hello Instant Replay!

A topic of many discussions, it seems like MLB is on the verge of instituting a system that will properly identify home run balls and foul balls
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“That ball is hit hard, it’s hit deep, that ball is… out of here?”
You will never hear an announcer say that, but the way some balls have [...]

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The almost 70 games into the season report

Wild opening half to the season has the Cubs and Rays of all teams, leading their respective leagues as baseball approaches the 70 game mark into this 2008 season.
SCOTT JACOBS
When you look at the standings right now they seemingly read backwards.
They don’t look right. They look extreme… ly odd? There’s [...]

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