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What The NFL Needs Now Is A Player Named Josef Witepaur

By David Raposa | Published: August 24, 2009
Newsflash!  Folks spend a lot of money on their pets!  Even when the economy’s going sideways!  According to the American Pet Products Association (and this CNN blog post that references the APPA’s press release on this subject), 2009 spending on your favorite ball of fur and poop is on track to increase to $45.5 billion, [...]
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Question: Is FSI A Really Insurance?

By David Raposa | Published: August 22, 2009
FSI being Fantasy Sports Insurance, of course, and answer: yes they can!  Can’t Stop The Bleeding contributor and grown-ass freelance writer (and yet another Official Friend of Jockish — e-mail me for membership info and rates!) David Roth just blogged about this particularly interesting and curious service.  In case you’re wondering where Roth stands on [...]
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Now Let Brian Bannister Blow Your Mind (Again)

By David Raposa | Published: August 21, 2009
 As Tim Marchman wrote (in one of the blog posts I’m pilfering for this blog post): "To think about the arms God gave some of these clowns while leaving [Brian] Bannister with 86 mph…" [A]fter reporters asked him why he got hammered he led off by saying, ‘Pitch/FX is telling me that my pitches aren’t [...]
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You Say Teixeira, I Say Mauer!

By David Raposa | Published: August 21, 2009
Ed Price, August 19th: Although all of those Yankee haters out there were enjoying the show early in the season, as the player with the biggest contract this side of Alex Rodriguez got booed during a slow start, the story has changed. Take a look now. [Mark] Teixeira and the Yankees are soaring. "He’s the [...]
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Griffey Breaking (It) Down

By David Raposa | Published: August 20, 2009
From the good old days, when The Kid actually was a kid and could actually play center field.  The tune and the rhymes (by Griffey and/or Kid Sensation) might not be to your liking, but the play-by-play call of Griffey’s first MLB home run by long time Mariner broadcaster Dave Neihaus right at the start [...]
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A Noun, A Verb, And Performance Enhancing Drugs

By David Raposa | Published: August 10, 2009
Cincinnati Post columnist Paul Daugherty wrote a column about the David Ortiz press conference.  This is the first sentence in that column: Big Popper Ortiz said he was sorry for something. Since I’ve quoted from it (and I’m trying to be a responsible blogger), I’ve linked to the column below.  But clearly, from the way [...]
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Throw Some PEDs On That Ish

By David Raposa | Published: August 8, 2009
For folks that are able to recover from last night’s 15-inning Red Sox / Yankees 1-0 marathon (which might include the dude typing this who was unceremoniously pulled out of a really odd dream by an obnoxious ring-and-run telemarketer), there’s an exciting event planned before today’s Sabathia / Lester // Buck / McCarver double bill. [...]
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When Peformance Enhancement Goes Too Far

By David Raposa | Published: August 7, 2009
I’ll leave the Michael Vick joeks to those bloggers that worry about things like “traffic” and “page views” and such silliness: Some saffron finches seized last month in an alleged Connecticut bird-fighting ring had sharpened beaks, and at least one had a sharp metal object attached to its beak, police said Friday. Investigators said in [...]
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Give Brian Bannister Ten Minutes, He’ll Fix Victor Zambrano And Dewon Brazelton

By David Raposa | Published: August 7, 2009
Article (& even the quoted bit) ganked from Baseball Think Factory’s Newsblog, but if the internet’s about anything, it’s about sharing, so: Bannister recalls Rick Peterson, the Mets’ pitching coach at the time, talking about pitch counts. It was simple math — "If you get ahead of a guy in an 0-2 count, his batting [...]
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Right School Of Thought, Wrong School

By David Raposa | Published: August 7, 2009
Hey, you know, Zeke also ran a professional sports league!  FIU business BAs looking for an advisor — take note! Like every other college basketball player with a lick of talent, Dominique Ferguson has one goal: to play in the NBA. So when it came to picking his college, Ferguson decided to go with a [...]
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