Sports 4 Dorks

So now that Gabe Kapler has decided to make his comeback to the Major Leagues, we here at UmpBump figured it was high time we awarded coveted “Hot Baseball Wife” status to a hot baseball wife who we have shamefully overlooked. Until now.
The envy of women and gay men everywhere for having snagged the […]

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According to some NASCAR rule Ashley Judd in a dress is dangerous. Well duh. Let me rephrase that. Ashley Judd in a dress on pit road and in the garage is dangerous. Well double duh. Geez, I feel like George W. Bush talking about how OB-GYN’s have love for their patients.
Let’s try again. It is […]

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I’m a sucker for freak stats, so I love the fact that Cla Meredith recorded more groundball outs in 2007 than did Chris Young despite pitching less than half as many innings. Meredith gave up a lot more hits last year than he did in his rookie campaign, but despite the high batting average, the […]

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Grade: B+
Let’s face facts here: Hines Ward is on the down side of his career.  It’s not that he’s underperforming — quite the contrary, actually: he’s blocking as hard as ever, still goes fearlessly over the middle and generally hangs on to the ball when he get cracked mere microseconds after getting his hands around […]

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Please explain to me why the Reds are interested in Kenny Lofton?  I know they need a legit leadoff hitter, but does Lofton qualify anymore?  Wouldn’t they be better of with Hopper/Freel/Bruce in center and be done with this notion of NEEDING a leadoff hitter? 
Don’t we have enough outfielders right now?  Griffey, Dunn, Hopper, Freel, […]

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Forget the doghouse.  For Montreal Canadiens’ defenceman Ryan O’Byrne and forward Tom Kostopoulos, they got to feel what it was like in a Tampa holding facility after a strange sequence of events last night, according to the Tampa Tribune.
It started when players were at a bar, and a woman at the bar said that her […]

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Yesterday was a day dedicated to the NBA. First I woke up early to hit the gym where I did my normal workout but then decided on a whim to grab a basketball and shoot some hoops. After I was done working out I got ready to head to the Celtics-Spurs game. After the game […]

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The fine group over at The Hardball Times

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Tampa Bay Rays (3 days until pitchers and catchers report) Just wanted to take a second to once again thank DRG for holding down the fort on the weekend, allowing us to enjoy are literal hangovers in peace. We have a few things on tap for you today but until then just the links and […]

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Here, finally, is a projection that I will likely not be too optimistic about. I’d love to say that Kotsay will come to Atlanta and pull a J.D. Drew for a year - no injuries and above average production across the board - but the trends just aren’t there. Kotsay was rolling backwards before he […]

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