Local Man Rooting For Yankees To Make Playoffs Just So He Can See Them Lose In Them (1)
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Findlay, OH. (Aug. 28) - Baseball fan and Findlay resident Matt Garces, according to friends and family, desperately wants the New York Yankees to qualify for the playoffs, hoping beyond hope that the storied franchise can make up a seven-game deficit in the season's final weeks.The reason? So Garces can see the Yankees "go down" in the post-season."The Yankees haven't missed the playoffs since 1994," Garces told his brother, Mark, the other day at dinner. ...
Metareview: Mario Super Sluggers (1)
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Filed under: Metareview The follow-up to previous baseball title on the GameCube, Mario Superstar Baseball, Namco and Nintendo's next title, Mario Super Sluggers, has finally hit North American shores. Is it worth your time? Well, let's see what the critics have to say. GameDaily (80/100) thinks the positives outweigh the negatives: "Overall, the game plays great. The controls work perfectly, whether you're an avid baseball fan or a newcomer picking up the game for the ...
Baseball to Use Replay Review on Homers (1)
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Commissioner Bud Selig said that the replay system would start with the three series that open Thursday and be used in all games throughout the rest of the season.
Obama has won my vote (1)
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When Barack Obama was asked if he preferred the White Sox or Cubs, our future President declared,"Oh that's easy, White Sox. I'm not one of those fair weather fans. The Cubs, they're nice, you go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, the beautiful people out there, people aren't watching the game. It's not serious. White Sox; that's baseball."
40 MPH Heat (2)
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Jericho Scott throws a 40mph fastball. Okay, not that fast. But too fast for a nine-year old, apparently. That's why he's been banned from playing little league.
Common Sense Strikes Out: The Curious Case Of Jericho Scott [Baseball] (1)
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Nine-year-old Jericho Scott has been banned from pitching in a New Haven, Conn., youth baseball league because he throws so hard that he frightens the other players, according to league officials. But he took to the mound on Saturday anyway, so the other team simply dropped their bats and left the field, refusing to face him (San Diego Padres: "You can do that?"). Next logical step for all involved? Lawsuits! See, this is why I ...
WSJ: The Numbers Guy: MLB Standings Get More Sophisticated (1)
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"For the past month, ESPN.com’s Major League Baseball standings have included postseason probabilities, broken down by chance of winning the division and winning a wild card. It’s a brave step forward for standings, longtime fixtures of newspaper agate and more-recent staples of online sports sites. And ESPN isn’t yet sure playoff probabilities, as supplied by an online standings provider called Coolstandings, are for the long term."
スポーツ見るもの語る者〜フモフモコラム:星野監督が「言い訳はせん」と前置きしながらテレビで言い訳独演会の巻。 (6)
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何かこう、まだ落胆から立ち直れません。 出来ることなら触れたくないのですが、ガスが溜まり過ぎて苦しいので、もう少しだけクドクドやります。北京五輪で惨敗した星野JAPANについてです。すでに飲み屋の会話、掲示板、テレビ等々でもその敗因が分析・検証され始めています。おそらくは星野監督の采配、選手選考…つまり無能ぶりを批判するのが落としどころでしょう。...
CT Little League Bans Pitcher For Being Too Good (1)
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The New Haven Youth Baseball League had a problem: nine-year-old Jericho Scott was too good of a pitcher for the other kids. Their solution? Ban him from pitching. And when his coach sent him to the mound anyway, the league decided to disband his team. Parents protested, demanding that they let the little the junior Kelly Leak play, and as the AP reports, the whole thing has turned into a giant, litigious mess. Parents of ...
He Long Gone (1)
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This was a Pozterisk in my upcoming pitchers post. But the thing got too darned long. So you get it as a separate post … There is really only one thing that drives me insane about color commentators on television. It isn’t when the announcers say silly things because we all say silly things, especially when forced to talk non-stop for about three hours. It isn’t when they get stuff wrong because we all make ...
スポーツ見るもの語る者〜フモフモコラム:ありがとう星野JAPAN！最後の五輪で有終の美を飾る4位獲得の巻。 (2)
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星野JAPANありがとう！君たちのことは忘れない！ 「金メダルしかいらない」…シドニー・アテネとプロ参加の中で結果を残せなかったという事実に、恐怖心など微塵も覚えない指揮官の一言を聞いて、「星野JAPANはやってくれそうだ」と思ったのも遠い昔。予想を遥かに上回る頑張りで、星野JAPANは野球最後の五輪を堂々4位で終えました。予選リーグを含めた9戦で4勝5敗という成績...
Harlem Plan for a TV Base Deteriorates (1)
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The grand plan to bring the headquarters for Major League Baseball’s new cable television network to East Harlem is unraveling.
Super Mario Sluggers Coming August 25 (1)
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Super Mario Sluggers is coming on August 25th! Looks like fun! Baseball with Mario. Each player has their own special pitch and swing. Stay tuned for a review of Super Mario Sluggers for the Nintendo Wii. Official website.
Download Database - baseball1.com (1)
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This database contains pitching, hitting, and fielding statistics for Major League Baseball from 1871 through 2007. Available in several formats including CSV files. Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by pskomoroch to baseball database publicdata dataset statistics sports - More about this bookmark
ESPN Bringing Major League Baseball to Xbox Live [Baseball] (1)
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Baseball..baseball.. that's the one that's like Rounders, but with more spitting, yes? Whatever it is, ESPN has just won the rights to take its baseball 'content' and pump it out through new distribution channels. As well as the ESPN website and the obligatory voguish handhelds via the iTunes store, the sports network will also be bringing baseball footage to Xbox Live. ESPN will be simulcasting Sunday/Monday/Wednesday Night Baseballl and special events as well as selected ...
Baseball prepares itself for on-the-field instant replay (2)
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Not even instant replay could help this team As if baseball isn’t slow enough already, it now looks like the MLB will allow the use of instant replay to help make on-the-field calls. Don’t tell the purists. The deal, which is all but done but not *quite* finished, is such that instant replay will start being used before the end of the month. Use of instant replay will be limited to boundary calls—foul or fair ...
World turned upside down: Taiwan baseball team loses to China (1)
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A bitter pill for Taiwan indeed....as Reuters reports:China, playing in their first Olympic baseball competition, upstaged Taiwan 8-7 on Friday in a game that went into extra innings and stopped work in Taipei as incredulous fans watched events unfold on television.The game was so important that Taiwan's baseball chief had offered to resign if his team, officially named "Chinese Taipei" because of political sensitivities with China, lost. Other heads could roll as well, he said ...
Former Oregon State pitcher bouncing back from injury attributed to misuse in college (1)
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Dallas Buck is a perfect example of how college coaches abuse their charges in order to win. He helped Oregon State to a College World Series crown in 2006 as head coach Pat Casey kept sending him out to the mound despite knowing he was hurt. But Buck is a gutsy kid. The right-hander kept taking the ball and never complained. Now, the folks in Cincinnati will benefit from that "win at all costs" attitude. ...
