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Yovani Gallardo is going to pitch today. No one seems to care.
Apr 18, 2013, 8:20 AM EDT
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Yovani Gallardo is three days removed from blowing a .22 BAC in the wee wee hours. Today’s pitching matchup in the Giants-Brewers game: Matt Cain vs. Yovani Gallardo. As far as baseball is concerned, Gallardo getting behind the wheel at three times the legal limit is a non-event. There has been and will be zero discipline…
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Reds 1, Phillies 0: CONTINUED FROM TUESDAY NIGHT: Nine minutes, a quick score and then the whole thing was over. About as good a night as you coulda hoped for when you were 17, but for the Phillies this had to be disappointing. Reds 11, Phillies 2: Well, maybe not as disappointing as this. The…
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This is drugs [holds up an egg]. This is your brain on drugs [cracks eggs into frying pan, fries eggs, struggles to make it out of Single-A ball so decides to take some steroids and stuff in order to his some more dingers]: The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that two Boston…
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An update on the Yankees’ first baseman: Mark Teixeira swung a bat underwater on Tuesday. He plans to take dry swings today. — Andy McCullough (@McCulloughSL) April 17, 2013 More like under the Mendoza Line, amirite? Under water? For once he’s not whiffing in the air! Eh, insert your own zingers. I didn’t sleep…
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Les Carpenter of Yahoo! hips us to the son of baseball’s most famous man-child: Now on the day of his final high school game, Manny Jr., a first baseman and outfielder, sits near the batting cages at the IMG Academy late last week. He came here three years ago with the blessing of his mother,…
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Ohio high school team wins game 65-0. It lasted three innings.
Apr 17, 2013, 3:00 PM EDT
This from my neck of the woods. Really, like a few miles from the fortified compound. It happened on April 5, but news travels slowly here in the heartland. We’re busy with our milk seeds to be plant and wheat to be, um, churned. Or whatever the heck you people in the cities think we…
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Illegal Russian gangster-run A-list poker ring, formerly attended by Alex Rodriguez, gets busted
Apr 17, 2013, 2:04 PM EDT
In August 2011, Alex Rodriguez was called on the carpet by Major League Baseball for allegedly being involved in “an underground, illegal poker game where cocaine was openly used,” to quote the tabloid reports at the time. He met with the league and nothing happened apart from him promising not to hang out at underground,…
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Braves reliever Luis Avilan left last night’s game with what appeared to be a left hamstring injury. A day later he’s still in pain, but he’s now thinking it was a cramp. The culprit? #Braves Avilan said he’ll stick with water and Powerade instead of his usual pregame Red Bull, which might have contributed to…
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Dan Shaugnessy, Rusty Staub inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame
Apr 17, 2013, 11:31 AM EDT
A guy who thinks Jack Morris, Tim Raines, Alan Trammell, and Curt Schilling were the only worthy Hall of Famers on the last ballot is now a Hall of Fame inductee himself. So too is a guy who was quite smug and pleased when no one at all was elected this past winter. Oh, and some…
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Jonathan Papelbon lived in Boston for a long time and had some personal insight and reflection about safety and things in the wake of Monday’s bombing. But then he kept talking. Here he is on CSNPhilly.com, first mentioning an arguably reasonable fear of teams having players enter through the stands. Then he adds “Shoot man,…
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Play of the Day: Kelly Shoppach shows them worms he means business
Apr 17, 2013, 9:50 AM EDT
Words sort of fail here. Let’s just say that, at the end of the year, Andy Dirks will have a stolen base in his stat line for which he probably owes Kelly Shoppach an assist. Go here to see why. Nice throw, Kelly.
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Chris Capuano left last night’s Dodgers game early, will get an MRI
Apr 17, 2013, 9:26 AM EDT
Will the last uninjured Dodgers pitcher turn out the light please? Thanks. Filling in for injured starter Zack Greinke, Chris Capuano left Tuesday’s game against the Padres in the top of the third inning due to a strained left calf. “It’s a little sore. A strain, but not a full tear or anything like that,”…
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Derek Jeter did not have a setback. He’s just working too hard.
Apr 17, 2013, 8:55 AM EDT
Derek Jeter‘s May 1 comeback projection was taken off the table yesterday, but last night Joe Girardi said it’s NOT a setback. David Waldstein of the New York Times reports: “Sometimes I think you can take too many ground balls … They talked about lessening that load a little bit just because he was taking so…
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Rob Neyer is at his absolute best when he’s writing historically. He has a tremendously large baseball library and, it appears anyway, he either has most of it memorized or at least painstakingly indexed. Yesterday he used that brain and those tools to put together a great column. The subject: the stories behind the players and…
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Braves 6, Royals 3: I suppose the Braves will lose again at some point. I just don’t know when that point is. The team has 25 homers in 13 games. Yankees 4, Diamondbacks 2: I wasn’t watching this, but as I was going to bed people on Twitter were noting that Mariano Rivera was coming…
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Yankees to play “Sweet Caroline” as a tribute to Boston tonight
Apr 16, 2013, 5:40 PM EDT
When there’s not much you can do, it doesn’t take much to do something which means a lot. And to many this means an awful lot: Our thoughts are with the Boston community. Tonight there will be a special moment of silence & Fenway favorite Sweet Caroline @ end of 3rd. — New York Yankees…
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HBT Extra: The A’s, the Cubs and what’s the best baseball movie anyway?
Apr 16, 2013, 5:02 PM EDT
Kay and I wonder why the heck they left off “The Sandlot.”
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The Yankees sued StubHub in March, alleging that StubHub’s opening of a ticket office within 1,500 feet of Yankee Stadium violated New York laws against scalping. StubHub’s argument was that it wasn’t a ticket sales office but, rather, merely a printing station for tickets purchased online at home. The Yankees obtained a temporary restraining order…
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The Big Hurt’s house is for sale. It’s in Libertyville, Illinois and lists for a very reasonable $1.95 million. You may be able to talk him down a bit though seeing as though you’re going to have to pay to have the “35″ engraved on the exercise room and steam room walls removed. Unless you…
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Bobby Abreu spent all winter looking for a team but couldn’t find one. He’s not retiring, though. As Jerry Crasnick notes in his feature, Abreu wants to come back in 2014. He plans on spending this season attending to business interests but will play winter ball in Venezuela and try to latch on to a…
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As is usually the case this statement says nothing. More to the point it says “we shall do nothing.” “We have been made aware of the situation with Yovani and we take this matter very seriously. We have expressed our disappointment to him and know he understands that behavior of this nature is of great…
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Plastics, Benjamin. Plastics! Or TV. Which is all the rage now. With sports programming exploding in value — or cost, depending on your point of view — the Mariners have decided to purchase a controlling interest in ROOT Sports. It’s unclear as of yet whether this is just Root Sports Northwest, which serves Seattle, or…
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Anonymous scouts give Albert Pujols,’ Ryan Howard’s legs last rites
Apr 16, 2013, 12:31 PM EDT
Andy Martino of the Daily News spoke with an AL evaluator who has watched Albert Pujols and an NL coach who has watched Ryan Howard, and each of them have some pretty dire assessments of the former MVPs’ future. The AL guy on Pujols: “He’s got bad wheels,” said one American League evaluator who has…
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The Rockies — including their owner and mascot –are digging Coors Field out today
Apr 16, 2013, 11:32 AM EDT
The Rockies and Mets were snowed out yesterday. Coors Field was still covered with snow as dawn broke. But as this Vine video from Marc Carig of Newsday shows, the Rockies staff is definitely going to work to make sure baseball is played today. More from Marc: Everyone out there shoveling, from the Rockies team…
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Brewers’ right-hander/stupid, careless person Yovani Gallardo was arrested for DUI last night, reports Drew Olson of ESPN Wisconsin: Gallardo, a 27-year-old right-hander, was driving westbound on Interstate 94 near Miller Park when he was pulled over at 2:10 a.m. for driving slowly and deviating lanes. McLaughlin said Gallardo failed a field sobriety test and later…
