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THE MORNING ACCORDING TO US

Chris Sprow

...onto the wonders/evils of psychedelic drugs, was born today back in 1920. It seems only natural that the Tampa Bay Rays are providing baseball today with one of the strangest trips the game...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 22, 2008

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

David Steele writes achingly about his recent brush with press box reality today. The Baltimore Sun veteran was canned on the job recently. He was pulled out of the press...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 06, 2009

Greinke Now Statistically Absurd

Chris Sprow

...that'll happen this year. It's a baseball story -- an umpire and catcher both bearing witness...of pitch speed Greinke is playing right now. Today, after Greinke has dominated once more, we see...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 05, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...because the financial playing field in college football makes Major League Baseball's inequities look like sporting socialism. Like election day in congress, today offers a couple surprises and maybe some weird changes of heart...

Blog Entry | Conversation | February 04, 2009

The Morning According to Us

Chris Sprow

...in the 1980s. Ironic too, that Reagan's controversial Reagonomics policies are now closer to what baseball uses today than any other sport—limited revenue-sharing, but not outright sporting socialism—and are...

Blog Entry | Conversation | January 21, 2009

Sporting Equivalency: Tyrese

Chris Sprow

...to pull out Tyrese Gibson, who turns 30 today. Tyrese is the quintessential "What am I?" celebrity...he has his sporting contemporaries. Here they are. Baseball Equivalent: Andruw Jones Tyrese was platinum at 20...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 30, 2008

Buy High ... Ask Questions Later

Chris Sprow

...raw wealth and sound investing, and the Yankees, today and historically, are a prime example of the...time. This means that against the entirety of baseball over a near 35-year period, the Yankees...

Blog Entry | Conversation | December 11, 2008

Fred McGriff: 45 Cheers

Chris Sprow

...not really work out for you, Fred McGriff turns 45 today. Actually, this isn't bad, because any day that he's not playing baseball seems like an eternity to us, so the fact that...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 31, 2008

THE MLB SEASON ... BY THE NUMBERS

Chris Sprow

...Note: All week long, we'll be recapping the MLB regular season. Check it out.] Numbers define baseball. More than any other sport, the numbers come first to mind. 61, 56, 4,256, 130, 5...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2008

THE MAG.COM PRESENTS: ALL WORLD POWER RANKINGS

Chris Sprow

...OF SURLINESS, NOTHING CAN TOP A MAC ATTACK Today is the birthday of both Albert Belle and...least the early portion of a decade of baseball. Seriously, 50 HRs and 50 doubles in the...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 25, 2008

OUR FAMOUS FRIENDS ... WILLIE O'REE

Chris Sprow

...time was he? Well, in the NHL of 1958—ten years after Jackie Robinson had broken baseball's color barrier—there were only 6 teams, and after O'Ree showed up, another black...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 20, 2008

MAG.COM PRESENTS: ALL-WORLD POWER RANKINGS

Chris Sprow

WHEN IT COMES TO RULES CHANGES IN BASEBALL, "SOAKING THE RUNNER" OWNS YOU TODAY! According to the record books, the first official baseball game was played on this...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 19, 2008

SECOND LOOK: BEST ATHLETES

Chris Sprow

...to name the best pure athletes in sports today. The usual suspects came up, with LeBron James...76ers 31st overall in 1996, and his best baseball year may have been a positively unspectacular 10...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 10, 2008

BULL DURHAM WEEK, DAY 1: RON SHELTON

Chris Sprow

...be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the movie. Today, writer/director Ron Shelton gets philosophical on the...quit. Fifteen years after his love affair with baseball ended, he made Bull Durham in 1988 for...

Blog Entry | Conversation | June 09, 2008

ICE CUBE BREAKS IT DOWN: THE LAKERS, KOBE, RADMONOVICH AS OL' DIRTY AND RAIDERS HATS!

Chris Sprow

...any rappers from Spain. Yeah, me either. I'll just let him rap. Your famous line from "Today Was a Good Day" is "…(bleeped) around and got a triple-double." Who did you have...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 29, 2008

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