Hold on to your hats, folks. MLB has confirmed that the two teams competing in
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World Baseball Classic: Can the GB National Team qualify?
Last week, we looked at the forthcoming World Baseball Classic, but before the tournament across
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London Series: Cardinals and Cubs to play in MLB London Series 2023
Hold on to your hats, folks. MLB has confirmed that the two teams competing in the 2023 London Series are… drumroll… the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals. The two games will take place on 24-25 June 2023, marking
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World Baseball Classic: Can the GB National Team qualify?
Last week, we looked at the forthcoming World Baseball Classic, but before the tournament across three nations of Japan, Taiwan, and the USA starts in March 2023, there is still a little matter of final qualification. The GB National Team
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Epic Deadline Day with 29 of the 30 teams making trades. Guess the party pooper?
Here is your five-minute review of the breathless 2022 MLB trade deadline. There is only one place to start and as the great Tim Kurkjian said “you can make a case this is the biggest trade in baseball history.” The
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Remembering Vin Scully, broadcasting legend
On a day where the baseball world anticipated, celebrated, and mocked blockbuster trades before the deadline, including Juan Soto to San Diego, some sadder news cut through the noise: Vin Scully, the long-time Dodgers play-by-play announcer widely considered one of
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Trade Deadline Predictions: Who did best?
The trade deadline hype train is gathering momentum. We have a little over 48 hours before it pulls into the station of inactivity until after the World Series. Four of your favourite Bat Flips & Nerds personalities pit their wits
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Home Run Derby X: What a bunch of whining Brits
On Saturday, I stood in sweltering conditions for hours on end. It was 35 degrees in the shade, although as shade was at a premium, I don’t know how they recorded that. Refreshments from a makeshift bar involved a one-mile
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Episode 291 – Real Mute… Oh
John, Russell, Darius and Rob are here for a bumper catch-up pod featuring everything from Home Run Derby X to, err, the Home Run Derby. They also chat about Gabe Rincones being drafted by the Phillies, a raft of Canada
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The Red Sox Are This Season’s Most Intriguing Deadline Story
Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even
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World Baseball Classic: It’s sooner than you think
The venues and pools for the World Baseball Classic 2023 have been announced, and wow, it already looks like an exciting competition. Starting on 8 March 2023, 20 teams will compete for the WBC crown, with the final in Florida
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Using a Tank to Drive the Team to Vegas Perhaps? – Oakland A’s Mid-Season Report
The All-Star Game marks (roughly) the half-way point of the season for the MLB, so I thought I’d do a progress report on how the A’s are doing. Before the start of the season, I said in my season preview
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