Sports 4 Dorks

Ah, the good old days.

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Do strikeout pitchers truly tend to have longer careers?

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||Ah, Spring Training. That wonderful time of year when the dust gets shaken off the uniforms and gloves, the bats get a final sanding down and the trucks start heading south. I LOVE this time of year, because it means…

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Okajima has developed a two seam fastball to compliment his splitter, but he won’t know if it’s good enough to use until he gets in games and he’s able to throw that against hitters.
The pitch should be a nice addition to what is already an impressive arsenal for a relief pitcher. His repertoire will now […]

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Roses are red Baseball’s a sport On Valentine’s Day Pitchers & catchers report! It’s finally here- the day we’ve waited for since October 29th, 2007. It’s P&C time, y’all! Oh, yeah, and it’s also Valentine’s Day. But like I said…

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It’s girly for VD. Happy first day of Spring Training, everyone! Dempster opens his big fat mouth
What do you expect? He’s Canadian.
From the Daily Herald:
Another year, another Cubs pitcher predicting a World Series title for this woebegone franchise.
Carlos Zambrano?…

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Check out Bluebird Banter for a pre-pre-preview of how Spring Training is going. I’ll be heading down in a few weeks with some press credentials- if there’s anything you want to know that hasn’t been totally written into the ground by the avalanche of new Jays blogs, fire away and I’ll post the answers over […]

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Lewis H. Lapham is the former editor of Harper’s magazine and still contributes a column, usually about American politics and culture. Even if you don’t agree with his (”Liberal”) politics, or think he’s a condescending prick, you have to respect his intelligence and writing as being on an entirely different level from us mortals. When […]

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It’s October. The Yankees lose a stunner to the Indians when former Manager Joe Torre fails to get his team off the field in the face of a Biblical plague of blood. Fade out on the season.
Except this is New York, and while the Giants won the Super Bowl, while the Knicks are epically bad, […]

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Time to play a little ball. Cubs’ pitchers and catchers will have their first workout later today at Fitch Park. Another pitcher made a bold prediction for the upcoming season, but this time it was not Carlos Zambrano. Ryan Dempster told reporters on Wednesday the Cubs will win the World Series this year. Dempster said, […]

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