2005 American League predictions
Oops. Didn’t get my AL preview posted like I promised. Let’s see if I can do this within the hour, when today’s games are due to start. AL EAST1. Yankees. The first two games of the season have no influence…
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2005 National League predictions
After last year’s predictions of how each division would play out resulted in somewhat moderate success – at least they weren’t completely crap – I knew I had to bring the prognostications back for a return engagement. So let’s get…
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Opening Day game predictions
When I was a kid — middle school, early high school, something like that — I once wrote out the Opening Day schedule, and then predicted every game. I tried to predict the score, the winning and losing pitchers and…
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Yankees vs. Red Sox on Opening Day
When the baseball season ends, the next one seems so far away. When spring training begins, we’re so starved for the game that we follow it intently, talking about exhibition game statistics as if they were the true measure of…
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Minaya knows when to let go
This week’s New York magazine has a great article on Omar Minaya and the Mets. It delves into Minaya’s professional history and his plan of action after returning to the Mets at GM back in September. I took particular note…
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Braves Opening Day, I got 12,000 tickets. Who needs tickets?
Tickets for individual Mets games went on sale today, and though I already have my Opening Day seats because of the six-pack that I bought with two other friends, I logged on to get tickets for the April 23 game…
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Wright on track
One of my few photos from the 2004 Futures Game BP session. I don’t know if it came from knowing his name when he was in the South Atlantic League in 2002, when I was covering the Lakewood BlueClaws, but…
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Hair today, gone tomorrow: New changes for the New Mets
In addition to all the big changes around the Mets during the offseason, Willie Randolph (himself one of the changes) ushered in a new one on the first day of workouts in Port St. Lucie. Taking a cue from his…
