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Playoff Diary: ALCS Game Three: Rays versus Red Sox by David Laurila, written 19 hours ago, Musings and meanderings during a playoff game in Fenway.

Braves May Consider Peavy, written 1 week ago,

International Signing Report: AL East, written 2 hours ago, Ben Badler looks at the international signings this year by the AL East teams.

Chicks and Sticks love the Discovery Channel, written 1 week ago, I love the foul linesI love the CubbiesI love the outfieldI love Chase UtleyI love the playoffsAnd all their mysteryBoom-de-yaddaBoom-de-yaddaBoom-de-yaddaBoom-de-yaddaI love the Red SoxI love World Series ringsI love Beckett's fastba...

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The Juice Blog: College Picks are 16-8. Top Picks are 8-4. First 4 Star Selections of the Season., written 4 days ago, College

On The Block: One Ace?, written 3 hours ago, Over the last few day, word has leaked out of San Diego that the Padres will be willing to talk to teams that might be interested in Jake Peavy this winter. More importantly, since Peavy has a blanket no-trade clause, was his agent's statements that Peavy...

The Book Blog: Tango: Challenging Nate Silver (and all other forecasters), written 3 hours ago, Does everybody get a super-neat purple jumpsuit like in Challengers of the Unknown? Nate issued a challenge to a pollster a few months ago.  That pollster, too “big” for Nate, didn’t take him up o...

Gone Fishin' at the Trop, written 1 month ago, Taking two out of three games against the Red Sox did a lot for the Tampa Rays last week. Nevermind that the Sox gift wrapped the pivotal middle game, and were outplayed in the finale. The Rays were well on their way to an AL East title by winning at Fe...

Top 27 for Oct 15, written 6 hours ago,

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Tampa Bay Rays homeplate collision with Yankee catcher in spring training recalled, written 4 hours ago, By Kevin Kennedy today on XM noting Joe Maddon's approval of the style of play (which Kennedy recalls resulted in the broken arm of a Yankee catcher). Just another sign the Rays were serious. 5 e...

Solari Versus Von Der Ahe, written 11 hours ago, Up to about a year ago August Solari was the proprietor of the Grand Avenue Park which, under his management, was not an overpowering success, and an association was formed last spring known as the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit...

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Pirates work to develop character in their farm system, written 2 days ago, The latest issue of Baseball America landed in my mailbox this weekend and it contained an interesting column by John Perrotto (who also covers the Bucs for the Beaver County Times). The column was entitled "Character S...

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Red Sox Roll The Dice-K, written 1 week ago, The lineups are out, and here's how the Red Sox pitching will break down: 1. Dice-K He's a heart-attack inducing pitcher, and with the Ray's tendency to run, that may cause a little trouble for the Sox. However, Dice-K has shut it down on the road, so giv...

Say it isn't so Joe..., written 1 day ago,