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Pirates: Has Neal Huntington Overstayed His Welcome?
Posted on 19 May 2011 by Michael Waterloo.
When evaluating a trade in baseball, there needs to be a waiting period of about three years before deciding which team got the better deal. In the case of the Pirates trading Jose Bautista to the Toronto Blue Jays, I think it's fair to say which team got the better deal. On August 21, 2008, Bautista was traded from the Pirates to the Blue Jays for a player to be named later, which ended up...
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Fantasy Baseball Is War- Don’t Panic Yet
Posted on 8 Apr 2011 by Mo Johnson.
Don’t worry, I UNDERSTAND. It's the first week of the season and your team is already sitting in last place. In fact your team is doing so bad that you are sure the other owners are plotting to kick you out of the league. After all the pre-draft work and the feeling of post-draft glow THIS is the result!! All you can do is look at your team and just mutter, ...
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Pirates: 18 Years Of Losing…..
Posted on 3 Apr 2011 by Michael Waterloo.
Everyone wants to see their favorite team win. It's as simple as that. If the team wins, the fans will come out and cheer. For the Pittsburgh Pirates, they have had a problem with that simple formula for the past 18 seasons, as it is well known that they have endured losing seasons over each of those years. There are people in college right now that have never experienced a winning seas...
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How Misfits And Castoffs Became Champions, Part 3
Posted on 9 Jan 2011 by Joseph Davis.
(sorry for the long delay in getting Part 3 to you readers…sometimes life makes plans FOR us regardless of our own wishes) #47 Chris Ray, Reliever The return from Texas in the Bengie Molina deal, Ray—a once-promising closer for the other Orange-and-Black (Baltimore) who was in his second season after 2008 arm surgery—did a very good job in middle relief that unfortunately may be ...
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Ohh, We’re Halfway There. Oh-OH, Thick Dark Facial Hair…
Posted on 29 Oct 2010 by Joseph Davis.
Boy, bet the Rangers are thinking, “WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RAINOUT?” Oh, it rained all right. It rained baseballs. With Giants’ bats serving as the storm clouds, AT&T Park was drenched with a downpour of offensive mayhem in each of the first two games of the 2010 World Series. Practically every Giant who picked up a bat turned into Cody Ross at the plate, even Ross himself. Stifle that ...
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The Giants Will Win It All…Or Not
Posted on 4 Oct 2010 by Joseph Davis.
I recently was directed to an article on BleacherReport.com that “outlined” the reasons why the Giants will win the World Series in 2010. As a fellow writer, I haven’t been more disappointed in a sports piece in a very long time. The reasons were obvious and banal. Worse yet, they were superficial, clichéd and unoriginal. BR is a great site and I expected so much better. You know how at ...









