Best pitching matchup of the season thus far? For my money it was today’s Dana Eveland/Shaun Marcum tilt at Rogers Centre. Both were throwing very well, but Eveland looks like a guy headed for a breakout year. For lack of a better word, he’s a gamer, and kind of flops around, looking perpetually restless. Not […]

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My pal Eric, aka EW, aka Aaron Cheats, aka Grammar Crank, wrote a neat piece for The Press Democrat about the Olympic torch relay that broke out in the middle of a San Francisco protest on Tuesday. A good part of it happened just outside his front door.
Seemingly destined to spend yet another day recuperating […]

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Yahoo! and MLB.com have struck a deal essentially allowing Yahoo! to sell and distribute MLB games over the Internet starting in 2009.
Regular readers of this site know Ive’ been carping about MLB.com since the 2008 season started. I’ve subscribed three years running, and up until this year, have always lauded the service; although, I would […]

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Not bad. A .667 SO CG AVE. Box here.
From Japanball:
Darvish (3-0) took a no-hitter into the sixth and finished with a three-hitter while striking out six and walking one in a 95-pitch outing at Sapporo Dome. Terrmel Sledge gave Darvish the only run he would need with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the seventh.

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