Late on Sunday evening in Chicago, David Bote did something incredibly amazing, I don’t mean
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Are the Orioles the Biggest Losers Ever?
We need to talk about the Orioles. Yes, I’m stepping in to John’s territory here.
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The Thoughts Behind The Pinch Hit
Late on Sunday evening in Chicago, David Bote did something incredibly amazing, I don’t mean that glorious bat flip you see above. He sent Wrigley Field into a frenzy by launching a pinch-hit, walk-off grand slam with two outs in
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Episode 86 – San Diego Padres, Phil Hughes interview
Our very first active Major Leaguer, Phil Hughes, joins Tom just before he “ships out” to Miller Park to face the Brewers and attempt to take the series. They talk about Phil’s favourite team growing up, his World Series championship in
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TOM’S BUMPER FANTASY BASEBALL STYLE MLB STANDINGS EXTRAVAGANZA – JULY UPDATE
Are you ready to be confused? I SAID, ARE YOU READY TO BE CONFUSED? Well, I’ll try and stop that by letting you know a full explanation of what we’re doing here can be found in the original post. Right
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Are the Orioles the Biggest Losers Ever?
We need to talk about the Orioles. Yes, I’m stepping in to John’s territory here. As the Orioles beat was one he did not want anyway and this will be about how bad they are, and how good the Red
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Synchronicity – Undercover at Dodger Stadium
Welcome to Bat Flips & Nerds, Geoff Enderby… If you take the elevator to the top of the tower of City Hall in Los Angeles you can see far into the California distance, the L.A. river glamourised in Terminator 2
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The Anatomy of an At Bat
When you are watching sport you inevitably at some point ask yourself ‘What would I have done if it was me?’ or you say ‘They shouldn’t have done that, they should have done this’. To me this comes from hours
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Goodnight, sweet prince: Machado is traded to the Dodgers
Trying to pick apart Manny Machado’s trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers is, as an Orioles fan, not an easy thing to do. It’s a bit like trying to analyse a raw break-up mere days after the fact; no matter
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Commit or Quit
Paul LeBoeuf returns to document his Indy Ball dream. We haven’t heard from him in a while, so what’s happened? It’s true there’s no “I” in team but there is one in commitment. When you have a dream or a
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A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: The Art of Fielding and The Art of Fiction
“But baseball was different. Schwartz thought of it as Homeric – not a scrum but a series of isolated contests. Batter versus pitcher, fielder versus ball. You couldn’t storm around, snorting and slapping people, the way Schwartz did while playing
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El Mago – How Javy Baez Learned to Live and Let Die
“There’s magic in the ivy and the old scoreboard.” That was the line once sang by Eddie Vedder in his ode to Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs, All The Way, and their longstanding quest to win it all. He
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