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Jim CapleChats | E-mail | Page 2Jim Caple is a senior writer at ESPN.com, with his weekly baseball column "Off Base" for Page 2 among his contributions. Before coming to ESPN, Jim worked in Minneapolis and Seattle. His first book, "The Devil Wears Pinstripes," can also be ordered through his Web site, jimcaple.net. |
Edgar's HOF chances
Jorge Arangure Jr.Last weekend former Seattle Mariners slugger Edgar Martinez, in an interview with the Puerto Rican newspaper Primera Hora during an autograph session ...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009
Back where I belong
Gordon Edes...talk baseball with the best of them, including Buster Olney, Tim Kurkjian, Jayson Stark, Jerry Crasnick, Jim Caple, the Baseball Tonight crew and another New Englander of some renown, Howard Bryant, who writes big...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 20, 2009Can we replace Gold Gloves?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotIn the wake of the latest round of atrocities, Friend of the Blog Rany Jazayerli shows up with a welcome and constructive idea: This annual trashi...
Blog | November 12, 2009Foreign intrigue: Dubai plans MMA, but at what cost?
Jake Rossen/Sherdog.com...But, oh, how they love their sports. As detailed in this grand piece by ESPN's Jim Caple, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has infused Dubai with multimillion-dollar horse tracks and golf...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 11, 2009Spartak owner's death is big loss for game
Mechelle Voepel...league, Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi are paid and pampered like Shaq and Dwyane Wade. Revisit Jim Caple's E-Ticket from May 2007, Rolling In Rubles. Kalmanovic, who was shot to death in...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009
Umpiring is better ... but not better enough
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Because there's one big roadblock: Commissioner-for-Life Bud Selig. From a recent piece by Jim Caple: "The more baseball people I talk to, there is a lot of trepidation about it and...
Blog | November 02, 2009Wednesday Wangdoodles
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Wojciechowski thinks it's time for more video review, at least in the postseason. So do Jim Caple and Phil Rogers. So it's just a matter of time, though "matter of time" might...
Blog | October 28, 2009ALCS: Angels have options with their pitchers
Jim Caple6:10 p.m. ET With two days off since Game 5, Angels manager Mike Scioscia could go with many possible pitchers in relief if necessary tonight. Depen...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 25, 2009ALCS: Scioscia not in favor of playoff schedule
Jim Caple6:15 p.m. ET Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who complained Saturday about taking 20 days to play eight postseason games, said he would like to see th...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 25, 2009A classic tug-of-war
Kevin Seifert, NFC North...back Franco Harris, who was so exhausted couldn't lift himself off the ground. ESPN's Jim Caple produced this cool retrospective on the event. Here's how former Vikings linebacker Jeff Siemon described...
Blog | October 24, 2009Another spin on Minnesota and Pittsburgh
James Walker, AFC North...Pittsburgh Steelers (4-2) has been covered from all angles -- except this one. ESPN.com's Jim Caple looks back at the Tug of War between the 1975 Steelers and Vikings, who also competed...
Blog | October 23, 2009ALCS: Cheers for Jeter's blast
Jim Caple4:15 p.m. ET Based on the reaction to Derek Jeter's home run leading off the game it was unclear who the home team was. There are a quite a few Yank...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 19, 2009ALCS: Home plate ump has some style
Jim Caple4:40 p.m. ET Home plate umpire Bill Miller did his best Leslie Nielsen imitation on a pitch to Jorge Posada in the second innning. Miller gave an em...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 19, 2009ALCS: Yankees go to Mr. Reliable in eighth
Jim Caple11:15 p.m. ET An interesting move by Joe Girardi to bring in Mariano Rivera with two on and two outs and the game tied in the eighth. Rivera retired...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 17, 2009ALCS: Figgins remains hitless in playoffs
Jim Caple8:15 p.m. ET With his first inning strikeout, Chone Figgins is now 0-for-17 in the postseason. Angels manager Mike Scioscia was asked before the ga...
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