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“Rios Really Is Cursed ”
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“What he said Yankees vs Red Sox Riveria blew another save vs the Red Sox last night ...”
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“Live Game Notes - Jays 8 Rangers 7 Today we have live game notes from one ...”

“What if... Just thinking that if ML hadn't split up into 3 divisions we would be ...”

“Outfield of Screams Blue Jays search for help in the outfield. Here is a look ...”
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“Wayne McMahon, Veteran Beer Vendor, Fired [youtube t7AOqW_8KiU&NR=1] Apparently, Aramark, the concession contract holder at Rogers Centre ...”

“Things Are A Little Intense In The Japanese League Watch here as an ump gets leveled.”
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“JP: Sign Her Up! [youtube 4SqJz0NgnnE] ”
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“Around the Bases in the Golden League -- June 17 It is a day late if ...”

“Biggest Surprises Of 2008 So Far 1. Tampa Bay Rays - this team used to be ...”
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“Is Winning Enough Part II Shortly after writing my previous post I was asked if certain ...”
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“Is Winning Enough to Bring the Fans Back? For the first time in the 10 year ...”

“Around the Bases in the Golden League Here are some tidbits from the first few nights ...”
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“Super Fantastic Inter-League Preview! If anyone is interested in inter-League play on this upcoming "rivaly weekend" ...”
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“Flashback- August 1990 Watching the Jays this last little while reminded me of a darkness that ...”

“ Ankiel's Spectacular Assists [youtube aRWEFJQB47E] Most outfielders with extraordinary arms get converted into pitchers. This is what ...”
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“Big Brother is Watching at Rogers Centre I had head that the Rogers Centre cheap seats ...”
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“Live Game Review - White Sox 0 at Blue Jays 1 It is so nice to ...”
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“2009 WBC to Be Held in Toronto WBC announced yesterday that six games will be held ...”
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“Buffalo Baseball Briefly We at MUD.com seem to hit the topic of Buffalo baseball quite often. ...”

“ The Wonder Years [youtube FCDmg_ngEPo]  ...when hope sprang eternal. I saw this over at Tao of Stieb ...”

“Book Review - Juicing the Game by Howard Bryant While this book is fairly comprehensive in ...”
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“The Mitchell Report - OpinionThe following is my obligatory opinion on the Mitchell Report and ...”
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“David Eckstein a Blue Jay JP Ricciardi signed a free agent yesterday. Not a bad ...”
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“JP Tempting Fate in Nashville Ricciardi is again rumoured to have placed All-Star Alex Rios on ...”
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“Veterans' Committee Announces 2008 HOF Inductees For the first time since 2001 the VC announced some ...”

“Lefty O'Doul While I was researching my "Best Non-MVP Season" article I came across a lesser ...”
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“Defining a Franchise This has always been a bit of a grey area in MLB and ...”
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“The 9 Greatest Non-MVP Seasons With Jimmy Rollins winning the NL MVP over some stiff competion ...”
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“Mecca of Caribbean Ball in USA to Shut its Doors I am sure you all guessed ...”
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“Using CDD to Pick the World Series Winner  My CDD was perfect in picking the Pennant Winners ...”
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“World Series Predictions Last time around, I used three different systems to make picks in the ...”
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“Did the DBacks Great Pitching Fail Them? About a week ago I was trying to figure ...”
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“EricByrnesis no 'Mess' of a Leader but is a Mess Nonetheless To tell you the truth ...”

“DBacks outfielder put his Foot inhis Mouth and it takes the press 24 hours to ...”

“Wacky Playoff Predictions I can't predict this stuff... Kman Predicitions Forget doing the pretty write up with reasoning. ...”
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“Using CDD to Pick LCS Winners I went 2-2 in my predictions for the LDS. I ...”
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“What happend to the Cubs? The biggest puzzle to me this playoff year was how bad ...”

“Indians vs Yankees Game 1 Notes For those that haven't checked it out, here's my quick series ...”
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“Using CDD to Pick 2007 Playoff Winners  I didn't want to make predictions for this years ...”
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“Now that Russy's Back... Since my last article, Russ Adams again has fallen apart and it ...”

“The Final Meltdown With three games to go here are my predictions on how the especailly ...”

“End of an Era in DC The Washington Nationals defeated the Phillies this week to end ...”
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“Ottawa Lynx Leaving Town The last Canadian based MiL affilatedteam probably played its last game at ...”
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“Bringing Russy Back After spending the 2005 season as a starter with the Jays infielder Russ ...”
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“500 HR Club Update Back on January 3rd we wrote an article titled: Four New Members ...”

“2009 AL East Rotations All of the recent yap about Chamberlain & Kennedy taking Mussina's rotation ...”
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“Strikeouts vs. Success Are strikeouts & success related? I don't want to get to sabermetrical here, as ...”
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“Live Game Notes - Jesse Litsch Disproves Naysayers in Debut  Dispite the Talking Heads of Toronto area ...”
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“What to do with the slumping Jays Here's the deal. It's only about a fifth of ...”
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“Predictions Revisited Part 1 Here's an updated look at my pre-season predictions. Unlike most, I'll give you ...”
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“Hitting down drastically. What's up?   Yep, it's early in the season. However, a trend is developing.     Over ...”
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“April Review The first month of the season is behind us.  Here is a first month ...”
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“Live Game Notes - Rangers 3 at Blue Jays 7 With an open dome and a ...”

“Skippers on the Bubble  The first month of the season is just about behind us.  So ...”
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“Live Game Notes - Gyroball is a Hoax  In a well played game the Blue Jays, somehow were ...”

“ Live Game Notes -- BJ is a Bust I have never been so mad leaving a ...”
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“Whoever is Responsible for Scheduling Please Stand Up    In the first two weeks of the MLB ...”
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“Comerica Park vs SkyDome (Rogers Centre)      What could one be doing in Toronto on April 5, ...”

“The Continental League  This was the last true attempt to establish a third major league.  The ...”

“2007 MLB Season Predictions Collected   Kman here. With the season's first pitch about an hour away ...”

“Pre-Season Standings & Awards Predictions With a few days left before the season starts, here are the ...”
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“2007 Blue Jays Schedule Run Down For the Jays to be competitive in the AL East ...”
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“Adam Lind : No MLB for you!   It's pretty much offical, Adam Lind is headed back ...”

“JP's Infirmiry Hearing the injury report for the Blue Jays during the work up to the ...”

“Spring Training Opener for theBlue Jays I turned on the radio this morning to hear about ...”
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“  OBP : A Hidden Factor      Another two minute stat shot, this time dealing with OBP and some ...”
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“  Introducing ROB - Runs on Base     Yep, I’m going to introduce yet another stat into the ...”
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“MUD.com Contributors Meet and Greet with the 2007 Blue Jays      Two weeks ago three of the MUD.com ...”
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“James Creighton  When the name Jim Creighton comes up few baseball fans will give it a ...”
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“Roundtable Part 2   Part two of the Mop Up Duty roundtable. Featuring the usual suspects, Kman, Callum, and ...”

“ Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball --- Memoirs   Earl asked me to write a memoir type of entry ...”
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“Mop-Up Duty Roundtable Part 1    With everyone tuning into the Super Bowl & the K-Fed commericals tonight, we figured ...”

“Improbable Streaks    Here is a quick list of some improbable streaks. Joe DiMaggio “ over 56 games ...”
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“Introducing BOB     Say hi to BOB. Or you can call him by his full name, which ...”
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“Effective Wildness : Part 4 After bouncing EF around in my head for awhile, I'm ...”
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“Effective Wildness : Part 3 So, ending off last time I teased an EF equation that ...”

“Effective Wildness : Part 2     Right off the bat, let’s take care of a couple of ...”
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“Mop Up Duty Update The official MLB off-season has marked an off-season of sorts for us ...”

“A Call for Ethical Principles Amongst the BBWAA  Yesterday, Mark McGwire was left out of the ...”
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“Cooperstown Class of 2007  Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken will go into Cooperstown this year, very ...”
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“Top Ten 19th Century Ballplayers I have been reading the Roger Kaln book “Who’s Better Who’s ...”
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“Free Agent Market 2006: Starting Pitching Update With the recent signing of Barry Zito, all of ...”

“Regular Season Games to be Held in Orlando  The Tampa Bay Devil Rays annouced today they ...”
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“Could Peavy Become a Blue Jay?  I have heard and reported here on the Jays trading Wells ...”
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“Frank Robinson - Letter to the Author  Here is something new for MUD.  This is a edited ...”
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“Dolphin Stadium Renovations  Here on MUD we have seen articles on ballparks and failing franchises and how ...”
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“Joe Girardi - The new Skip of the Blue Jays  It has been rumoured that Joe Girardi may ...”
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“Ballpark Review - Exhibition Stadium  Just a quick word today on Exhibition Stadium - Former home ...”
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“Schedule Lottery Draft  This is a bit of a continued article and can be related to ...”
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“Ten Million for Tunnel Time Ted but a Penny for the Jays (rumour) With JP unable to ...”
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“Peavy a Red Sox You heard it here.  Apparently the pathetic hitting of the Padres will ...”
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“JP Riccardi annouced yesterday that the Jays are virtually out of the Ted Lilly sweepstakes.  ...”
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“Rethinking Pitching: Intro With the exohberted signings of pitchers such as Adam Eaton, I was left ...”
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“Interview with Rip and Pull, the Card Show Today we have something different. We did a ...”
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“Blue Jays Signings...So Far  I cought the JP Riccardi interview on the Fan 590 the other ...”
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“Worst MLB Uniforms Fox Sports had an article today on the worst sports uniforms of all ...”
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“Building a team with a DD catering to PF   This is a continuation of my recent ...”
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“  I just saw this one surfing around. Enjoy! A hit for Bobby”
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“Kman answered five questions, and surprise, surprise, disagreed with much of the panel over at ...”
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“Pre-Arbitration Contracts, National League Looking across a variety of sites and message boards that carried my ...”

“Billy Martin Book Review - "Billy Ball"  I always thought of Billy Martin as a weasel ...”
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“If the rumours are indeed true, then Frank Thomas is about to become the Toronto ...”
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“  Dependent on pitching or hitting?   This article will introduce two new statistics aimed at deciding if ...”
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“Relocation Possiblilities In between 1972 and 2004 we saw no MLB franchises relocate. The Expos ...”

“ You'd have to be insane to believe MLB Trade Rumors I’ve seen some insane rumors over ...”
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“MLB vs NBA & NFL Draft So it’s Monday morning, I’m eating my breakfast and I ...”
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“ Does Good Pitching Win Championships? Part 3 Atlanta Braves Playoff pitching stats. Yr Reg ERA NLDS NLCS WS W-L 1991 3.49 1.57/.598 3.17/.692 7-7 1992 3.14 4.87/.770 2.65/.658 6-7 1993 3.14 3.15/.736 2-4 1995 3.44 4.38/.796 1.14/.543 2.67/.576 11-3 1996 3.54 0.96/.425 1.92/.538 2.33/.596 8-7 1997 3.18 1.67/.439 2.60/.560 5-4 1998 3.25 1.29/.454 3.50/.704 5-4 1999 3.63 3.46/.708 2.69/.572 4.37.749 7-6 2000 4.05 7.92/.870 0-3 2001 3.59 1.67/.538 2.66/.611 4-4 2002 3.13 4.91/.731 2-3 2003 4.10 3.68/.712 2-3 2004 3.74 7.04/.862 2-3 2005 3.98 5.19/.764 1-3 The Braves led the ...”
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“Do good teams win championships? Part 2 The following charts show how the type of teams ...”

“ Does Good Pitching Win Championships? Part 1 Do teams with good pitching win Championships? The ...”
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“First off, I’d like to thank all of the readers of Mop Up Duty. The ...”

“ The All-Party Team While many young men dream of becoming a baseball player for pure reasons ...”
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“Hall bound Blue Jays There have been many great players to put on the double blue ...”
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“Futures Market: Tracy Thorpe Originally drafted in the 11th round of the 2000, Thorpe (12/15/80) began ...”

“Balanced vs Front Loaded Rotation: Which is Better? I’m going to try and simplify the analysis ...”
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“Blue Jays Starting Pitching Situation The Toronto Blue Jays pitching situation is not as weak as ...”
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“Huston Street - Postseason-Traumatic Stress Disorder At about ten minutes to eight Eastern Time on Saturday ...”
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“Analyzing Successful Major League Team's Rosters: Part 1 Over the next few articles, I’m looking to ...”
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“Recently, during a random trip to my local library I came across a recent baseball ...”
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“Roger Peckinpaugh -- Goat of the 1925 World Series Baseball is a game of oddities, myth ...”

“ Colourful Commentary Often times during a baseball game there will be periods where the play can ...”
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“ 2006 Mop up Duty Award Winners AL MVP : Justin Morneau While Jeter and Ortiz are the ...”
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“ My world series prediction of the Twins vs Padres is not looking good. Of the ...”
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“With Oakland back in the playoffs this year and despite the A's going up 2-0 ...”
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“Sorry this is a couple days behind the times, but with the wrap up of ...”
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“The Ensured Loss This is a follow-up inspired by K-Man’s article on BJ Ryan and specifically ...”
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“OK Blue Jays (Let's Play Ball!)  This week’s MP3 is the treasured theme song for the ...”
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“Why baseball is the best sport   For today's article I thought I would throw down a ...”
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“2006 All-Star Team Below is my Major League first and second team all-stars for the 2006 ...”
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“  Gene Mauch Pennant Meltdowns Gene Mauch was a long-time major league manager who, after an unspectacular ...”

“The Toronto Blue Jays signed closer BJ Ryan in the off-season to a 5 year ...”
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“A Kitten has Nine Lives, Not Thirteen. Early asked me to write an essay or add ...”
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“In Conclusion… This is continued from Sunday, http://mopupduty.com/?p=62       No matter where it is played it is ...”
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“Major League Ballpark Trends Part 2    This is a continuation of an article started on Thursday.  It can ...”
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“  Ballpark Trends   This article is the opener in a series that will continue through the week. ...”
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“    Yesterday Sports Illustrated published a ranking of all thirty major league ballparks. To do this ...”
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“Claude Brochu   This is a self-defense book by one of the apparent goats in the Montreal ...”
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“  For today's article I am going to get away from a controversial opinion piece and ...”
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“Dock Ellis   The big talk in baseball off the field in the last couple years has ...”
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“  Recently, Jays' GM J.P. Ricciardi has commented that the Jays are unable to compete in ...”
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“Larry Lintz     This is not so much a bio of Larry Lintz, seeing his career is ...”
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“I recently was in Boston for the sole purpose of visiting Fenway Park.  This was ...”
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“Do you play in a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league? If you do (or any fantasy ...”

“Dummy Hoy   In 1886 a diminutive ballplayer appeared in the outfield of the National League Washington ...”
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“With the recent trades (or 'salary dumps') the Jays have made in Scott Schoeneweis and ...”
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“I can not recall a fantasy season where so many rookie players have made a ...”

“  Today we will look at this season’s best, and worst coaching jobs based upon Bill ...”

“  The Toronto Blue Jays have a dilemma. And it has nothing to do with John ...”
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“  I wrote the following on May 18th, 2006: Player A: .346 batting average, five home runs, ...”
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“As much juice Barry Bonds or Raffy Palmeiro and Sammy and BigMac took they all ...”
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