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Giants/Cardinals Series Preview
There's a certain kind of symmetry in the Braves leaving and the Cardinals arriving. For years -- decades, even -- it was the Braves who stayed competitive, no matter what freaky roster changes they needed to make. My favorite Braves move was Brian McCann's call up. Oh, we'll just take this...
Carpenter Carpenter Carpenter
We spoke about the offense yesterday, before I was so rudely interrupted by day baseball, and I'm going to be on the road tomorrow, so today seems like a good day for a paean to Mr. Chris Carpenter, who, were there any justice in the baseball world, would be 3-0 with a 0.00 ERA this morning. Here...
Tony's Choices: Motte, Perez, Carpenter and ???
If you take a recent piece in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at face value, Tony LaRussa is looking at three candidates for closer in 2009. <!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> W-L G GS CG SHO SV BS IP H R ER HR BB K ERA WHIP 2008 - Chris...
fickle finger cont'd
quoting derrick goold’s article in this morning’s post-dispatch: Wainwright met Monday with team doctor George Paletta and also saw a hand specialist. An MRI was taken of his right middle finger. The exam, the team's release said, revealed "a sprain to the finger." At the team's...
meaningless trivia
i usually don’t write on wednesdays, but the red baron is traveling to a funeral today so i’m covering. he lost someone very close; my thoughts are with you, dude. star of last night’s game goes to kyle mcclellan. he gets out of the 6th-inning jam throwing mostly breaking stuff...
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