In 2007, before Mike Hargrove left the helm, the Seattle Mariners were playing .577 baseball and looking like they were on the verge of making a run at the AL West title. Since then, under the direction of then-bench coach John McLaren, they have fallen all the way down to the cellar in the [...]

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This week I’ve been playing around with some pitching stats and this just blew me away: Rockies RHP Aaron Cook has an ERA/WHIP/BAA of 4.26/1.56/.297 on the road… but 2.33/.88/.215 at home! That defies all conventional logic with Coors being on of the biggest hitter-friendly parks in Major League Baseball.
So for Cook, he is [...]

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When it comes to sports… especially with the explosion of fantasy sports… player information is huge, and fans want to know what is going on with players’ health. Well, sometimes you get what you ask for…
May 29 3B Carlos Guillen is expected to return to Detroit’s lineup Friday for the start of a weekend [...]

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Last June (so almost a year ago) I wrote this post citing numerous similarities between the World Series winning Florida Marlins teams and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and stating the the 2008 team “will win the AL Wild Card and make things interesting“. Since Tampa’s success is a hot topic lately, I thought [...]

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[The Elephant Walk is my somewhat regular column on Oakland Athletics baseball. Results, performances, transactions or other thoughts I might have about the A’s]
Can you tell I can’t wait until baseball season?
This time around I’d like to start where I left off. Since last time, the A’s have signed Emil Brown, traded away Mark [...]

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Never, in my entire life, have I ever seen an interview so damning of two individuals than last week’s 60 Minutes interview between Mike Wallace and Roger Clemens… never. It was so putrid, I really don’t know how to describe it… so let me tell you what it wasn’t. It certainly was not [...]

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[The Elephant Walk is my somewhat regular column on Oakland Athletics baseball. Results, performances, transactions or other thoughts I might have about the A’s]
Well, after my last Elephant Walk, I was ripped by a blog I wish not to mention, who not only got the name of my website wrong, but also took my post [...]

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[When it comes time to talk San Jose Sharks hockey, it’s time to Jump the Shark(ie). A column based on my thoughts, observations, and commentary on my favorite NHL franchise - and named in homage to one really crappy episode of Happy Days that more or less, signified the coming of the end ]
First… The [...]

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[The Elephant Walk is my somewhat regular column on Oakland Athletics baseball. Results, performances, transactions or other thoughts I might have about the A’s]

Well, I think this signifies a long year to two year period for Oakland A’s fans like myself. Billy Beane said that the only way he was going to trade Dan [...]

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[Sometimes its better to devote an entire post to a subject. Other times a line or two is all it takes. In those cases, its time for the cross legged mutant]
There’s so many random thoughts running through my head right now with this MItchell report, like what does this mean? Who are the biggest [...]

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