January 2006 Archives

I am sneaking away from my day job -- simply by hitting alt-tab a few times -- to gather and disseminate a few tidbits, like a gentle gardener preparing his modest but munificent patch of earth for the spring, or...
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I started to write this in the comments space of the previous post but soon exceeded the limit. In case you can't remember way back to a couple days ago, here's a recap: In Bruce Jenkins' latest dingleberry, he approves...
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Taking a page from one of my favorite snark-blogs, Fire Joe Morgan, I'm going to sit on my haughty Internet perch and with cruel deliberation tear off the wings and legs of the small annoying insect known as today's Bruce...
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What's Barry saying? EVENING UPDATE: This note from the Boston Globe: First baseman J.T. Snow intends to wear No. 84 with the Red Sox in honor of his father, Jack, the former Rams receiver and broadcaster who died earlier...
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The Chron's Henry Schulman caught Felipe Alou musing about big changes in the Giants' batting lineup: perhaps he'll bat Barry Bonds second this year. It's not a new idea; the higher up one is in the batting order, the better...
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With this lull in hot stove action and nary a blockbuster trade in sight, I'll take a few minutes to make my calls on best and worst of the moves so far. Best trade for both teams White Sox/D'Backs. Sox...
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The Giants today said they've walked down to the beach, found a bunch of guys using metal detectors and muttering to themselves, and asked them to come to spring training. In baseball parlance, these are known as "non-roster invitees." OK,...
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El Diario Del Lefty Malo has obtained from anonymous sources a snippet of the transcript of tomorrow's prerecorded Brian Sabean chat: Moderator: Good afternoon, and welcome to MLB.com's "Brownnose Series" of chats with major league executives. Let's get retar...uh, it...
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The Fogg came in on little flat cleats. It sat looking over a minor league contract on silent haunches and then moved on....
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Because Brian Sabean can't quite pull the trigger on those Miguel Tejada and Dontrelle Willis trades, I'm a bit stuck for material. Fortunately I had my first Giants-related dream of the year, just before I woke up this morning...... Matt...
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Ryan Franklin: $2.6 M. Scott Elarton: 2 years, $8 M. Jason Johnson: $4 M. Ramon Ortiz: $2.5 M. Sidney Ponson: Lunch money and a Get Out of Jail Free card. These are the dollars being dumped into the bottom of...
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