Sports 4 Dorks

Ahh, Mr. Carl Pohlad, the owner of the Minnesota Twins and the 107th richest man in the world with a fortune of 2.6 billion dollars. A man who is willing to spend some money on a brand new baseball stadium. All in all, Mr. Pohlad is the main reason the Twins don’t have more than […]

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• There has been a lot of talk–some of it here–about how Milwaukee’s signing of Mike Cameron and resultant shifting of Bill Hall to 3B and Ryan Braun to LF will improve the Brewers’ overall defense. On Friday, Jay Jaffe of Baseball Prospectus (subscription req’d) tried to gauge what that improvement might be.
According to Jaffe’s […]

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The most I expected out of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights card from Pittsburgh and Showtime’s Shobox card was one decent knockout and a bunch of underwhelming action for the rest of the evening. So I settled in to my old habit of arguing with my latest issue of Ring Magazine… Says to self: Can you […]

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BankAtlantic Center | 7:30 PM | Box
Riddle me this!
What does it take to fire up the Florida Panthers? Hosting Robero Luongo for the first time in a must win game a night after a shutout loss. From the All-Star goalie matchup to the Cats’ very slim playoff hopes riding on it’s outcome, there was a […]

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Tim and I have already discussed the Jaguars’ offseason plan to some degree, but we haven’t really put together a list of what is expected at each position for Jacksonville. I’ll be breaking it up into two parts, offense and defense, and here is the O.

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Kolsky talks about John Paxson’s failure to acquire Pau Gasol.
MP3 version OR listen at gabcast…

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The option hasn’t been discussed very thoroughly, but I’ve seen mention of it from time to time. Why not pick up Chris Shelton, who was recently DFA’ed by the Rangers? He would be a cheap, young option with potential to help out the team when it’s ready to contend again, whenever that may […]

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For months now, rumors have been spread around baseball about the trade for Johan Santana. It had become obvious the the Minnesota Twins were ready to trade off their ace pitcher very early on in the off season. And yesterday, it was all completed, and Johan was sent to another city in a trade.
Despite rumors, […]

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PUERTO PLATA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — It’s time once again to leave football-obsessed North America for warmer climes, where baseball is king, year-round. The northlands may have those major leagues and their multimillion dollar contracts, but for this week, the capital of hardball is the city of Santiago, in the center of the Dominican Republic, where […]

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$1.925 million for one year sure sounds sweet to me. And it’s not like the Dodgers won’t use the lefty in 2008, if 2007 was any indication.
Beimel appeared in a career-high 83 games to set a franchise record for left-handed pitchers last season and went 4-2 with a 3.88 ERA and one save. […]

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