Category: MLB
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Wrigleyville Rooftops Can Go To Hell
Wrigley Field turns 100 years old in 2014. It is the second oldest stadium in MLB behind Fenway Park which turned 100 in 2012. Wrigley is the only stadium probably in any sport that is smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood. It is definitely the only stadium that is so entrenched into a…
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Baseball HOF Voting: Every Year There’s At Least 1 DBag
The Baseball HOF is taken very seriously. MLB has been around since 1876. It is older than all the other major professional sports by a lot. Next year is the 100th anniversary of Wrigley Field opening and it didn’t host it’s first MLB game until MLB was 40 years old! (Yes I know that math…
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Masahiro Tanaka Is Coming To MLB!
Masahiro Tanaka will be pitching in the MLB next season. It has been the biggest roller coaster ride of the off season as every day reports would come from Japan saying that he was going to be posted and that he was not going to be posted. MLB negotiated a new deal with the Japan…
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Shin-Soo Choo Signs With Rangers
Shin-Soo Choo has agreed to sign a 7 year contract with the Texas Rangers worth $130 million. There were reports earlier this week that Choo had turned down a 7 year deal with the New York Yankees worth $140 million. Hence, people’s first instinct is to believe that he took a lot less money to…
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Scherzer and Kershaw’s Cy Young WWE Title Belts
Max Scherzer had a tremendous season for the Detroit Tigers in 2013. He finished with a 21-3 record and had a 2.90 ERA with 240 strikeouts and only 56 walks. He helped lead the Detroit Tigers to the ALCS and won the 2013 AL Cy Young Award. A lot of athletes have gone to getting…
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MLB Trading And Signing Frenzy
I cannot remember a day this active in MLB in my life that wasn’t a trade deadline day or during the MLB Winter Meetings. Heck, this might have been one of the busiest days even including those days! Hope you have a scorecard and three or four sharpened pencils as we go over December 3,…
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Cubs Charities helps tornado victims
It was always a dream of mine to work for the Chicago Cubs. For the last three seasons, I have gotten to live that dream. Each day, I thank my lucky stars that I get to go to Wrigley Field for my job. While I love my coworkers and love being a security services ambassador,…
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Boston is the City of Champions?
If any of you were wondering if it was alright to go back to hating Boston or whether it was still too soon after the Boston Marathon bombing to feel that way…this 11 year old kid answers the question for you. It’s ok to go back to hating Boston now. The Boston Red Sox have…
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Boston Red Sox win 2013 World Series
The 2013 World Series is in the books and the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 in one of the wildest and weirdest World Series that has been played in quite some time. It began and ended with the Red Sox blowing out the Cardinals in Games 1 and 6 and everything…
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World Series Games w/ Wacky Endings
Everyone thought that it couldn’t get any crazier than how Game 3 of the World Series ended. Obstruction? A dumb decision by the catcher to throw it to 3rd base to begin with? It had the makings of a historical ending filled in controversy and second guessing. Was it the right call? What would have…