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  1. Wallball Tingle

    5/21 Bloom's Gambit

    This past offseason, Chaim Bloom more or less chose between today's starting pitchers, Kluber and Wacha. Did he make the right decision? Early returns say no. Today's game won't answer the question, but it will be a very interesting data point. Come one and all as the "not in last place" Red...
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    5/20 Who Are the San Diego Padres?

    Is there a more colorless, identity-free baseball team than the Padres? For me, the only other candidates for making a smaller pop culture footprint in the current era are the Marlins, Diamondbacks, and Rockies. They are all much younger franchises than the Padres; the first two have...
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    5/19 When You're Here, You're Family

    Oh Hai Xander. Long time, no see. No bitterness here, it was a business decision and perhaps also grounded in the idea you'd be going to a more immediately realistic candidate for World Series contender. Could still happen, but such a shame your team has the mirror record of ours at the quarter...
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    5/17 Damn Romance and Fire the Torpedoes

    Sorry, wife. Your team and happiness stand in the way of mine. Bello's going to cook the Mariners' goose and the lineup is going to incinerate the mediocre Gonzales. Probably maybe. Add a little more tension to my marriage, Sox!
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    5/16 Make War Not Love

    My wife is a Mariners fan. I'd like life to be a little harder for her today than it was yesterday, and for me to be the one carefully not celebrating too much around my spouse. Just don't look too closely at the starting pitching matchup--just like yesterday... whatever, beat 'em anyway...
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    4/11 These Rays Gotta Go

    I hate Rays! Down with all of them! These guys are doomed: .
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    What is THE baseball highlight?

    Mays catch? Larsen perfecto? Mazeroski homer? Gibson homer? Fisk waves it fair? Roberts steals it? Do we need an offensive category, an infield defense category, and an outfield defense category? I'd create a poll but this seems too widely open to interpretation. I'd go with the Mays catch...
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    Got Rich Quick (lucrative contacts on short term performance)

    I was thinking about players who made big money on a season's or postseason's worth of excellence. The two intra-division examples that come to mind are Derek Lowe's October 2004 (bless him, 4-year, 36M contact immediately following, probably made at least 10M in a month) and the Orioles' Chris...
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