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Category Archives: MLB
Surviving When Your Favorite Team Trades Away Your Favorite Player
I went to bed last Wednesday night giddy with joy knowing that the Braves (my favorite MLB team) were on the verge of a trade to acquire borderline superstar Justin Upton from the Diamondbacks. Reports from that night indicated that … Continue reading
Posted in Current Sports Commentary, MLB
Tagged Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, BJ Upton, Braves, Jason Heward, Justin Upton, Martin Prado, memes, Trade
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America Wins Tacos, Giants Win World Series
Right now it’s about an hour after the Giants finished off the Tigers in the 2012 World Series and the fires are still blazing in the streets outside my apartment. It was the classic baseball postseason story of a team … Continue reading
Why Use 162 games to Determine the Wild Card Winner When You Can Throw That All Away and Use Just 1 Game?
Hopefully most of you remember my post about the World Series last year, but if you don’t, here’s a quick refresher: I have a hard time getting into it because I feel like a seven-game series is too small of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Sports Commentary, MLB
Tagged Atlanta Braves, baseball, MLB, mlb postseason, playoffs, St. Louis Cardinals, Wild card, wild card game, World Series
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Felix Hernandez and the Diminishing Return of Perfect Games
In case you haven’t heard about it, Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game yesterday; only the 23rd perfecto in MLB history. It’s a big deal for a guy who’s been one of the best pitchers in the game for a … Continue reading
Hanley Ramirez and the Dodgers Just Makes All Kinds of Sense
I was chatting with my fiance on my drive to work and she told me that the Dodgers had just traded for a shortstop. She said he had a big contract and that Dodger fans were supposed to be really … Continue reading
Posted in Current Sports Commentary, MLB
Tagged Andre Ethier, Hanley Ramirez, Los Angeles Dodgers, Matt Kemp, Nathan Eovaldi, Ned Colletti
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MLB Opening Night (America) Storylines: Cards/Marlins
Last time I checked, baseball weirdly started a week ago in Japan with a few games that no one watched, but the season officially starts tonight, when we get to see the World Series Champion Cardinals take on the Marlins … Continue reading
2012 Baseball Milestones
The 2012 baseball season is upon us, and a popular topic this time of year (and throughout the baseball season) is to talk about records that will never be broken. However, there are plenty of records that will go down, … Continue reading
Posted in MLB, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012, ARod, baseball milestones, baseball records, Bobby Abreu, Derek Jeter, Francisco Cordero, Ichiro, Omar Vizquel, Roy Halladay, Saves
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A Few Good Things About Frank McCourt
By now you have seen the news about Frank McCourt agreeing to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers. And if you can’t tell that everyone is pretty excited about it, well, I really don’t know what to say. Retake those third … Continue reading
It’s Not the Quality of the World Series That’s Keeping Me Away
And just like that, the World Series is almost over and SpreeGoogs hasn’t written a word about it. As the post count would suggest, I haven’t been entirely interested in this year’s Classic. Not that it’s been unimportant — the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Sports Commentary, MLB
Tagged 2011 World Series, David Freese, Mike Napoli, MLB, NBA, NFL, playoffs, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, World Series
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What Would A 1997 MLB All-Star Team Made Of 2011 Players Look Like?
As far as interesting sports stories go, right now is a particularly slow time. The NBA lockout is going nowhere, preseason football Is rough to watch because no one cares how many yards Ryan Mallet can throw for against the … Continue reading
Dan Uggla’s Hitting Streak and What It Teaches Us About Baseball
It’s a shame that I had to miss out on the last month or so of blogging, because I like baseball a lot and I have a bunch to say about it. Sadly, Comcast hates me. Or Comcast hates baseball. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Sports Commentary, MLB
Tagged Atlanta Braves, Cal Ripken, Dan Uggla, Dan Uggla hitting streak, hit streak, hitting streak, Joe DiMaggio, MLB
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The newfound dominance of starting pitchers in fantasy baseball
This is a guest post from our friends at FanDuel.com. There used to be a time in fantasy baseball when taking a pitcher in the first round was a huge risk. There were just too many variables from year to … Continue reading →
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