Posts By offthebench
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30 Teams in 30 Days: Day 13- Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are baseball’s most storied and most tortured team. They haven’t won World Series since 1908 and won’t win one this year...
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Who’s Awesome and Who’s Not Awesome
Welcome to the inaugural (and for all I know only) addition of Who’s Awesome and Who’s not Awesome. Its kind of like...
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30 Teams in 30 Days: Day 12 – St. Louis Cardinals
Tony La Russa has changed the game of baseball. He is widely credited with the invention of the modern bullpen (where specific...
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Football Can’t Afford a Lockout – Look at Baseball
The NFL labor negotiations have many talking about the possibility of a lockout. No football this fall may cause riots, depression, and...
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30 Teams in 30 Days: Day 11- Milwaukee Brewers
You know when you’re taking one of those quizzes where you have to name all the MLB teams and there’s always one...
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30 Teams in 30 Days: Day 10 – Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds won the NL Central a year ago to the surprise of many around baseball. Those who paid attention knew...
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Chipper Is Ready to Go
Chipper Jones is a First ballot Hall of Famer, never been linked to performance enhancing drugs, and one of the best switch...
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30 Teams 30 Days: Day 9- Seattle Mariners
The Mariners entered the 2010 season with stratospheric expectations. By all accounts, GM Jack Zduriencik had done a spectacular job, creating a formidable rotation...
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Oliver Perez Must Go
If anyone says Omar Minaya is a good general manager they are either lying or grossly misinformed. Minaya was fired by the...
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30 Teams in 30 Days: Day 8 – Oakland A’s
Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s GM, has a movie coming out about him but I’m sure he doesn’t care (Bradd Pitt’s in...
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30 Teams in 30 Days: Day 7- Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
The Angels had a down year in 2010, plagued by injuries they finished a distant third in their division, 10.0 games back...
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James Dolan and the New York Knicks
A quick guest post reminds us that this is a only a Mostly baseball blog: In the wake of reports that Jimmy...