A pretty homey hometowney article with eggs sunnyside up and a side of golden brown hashbrowns and some different jams in a container with some Sweet and Low and Equal that a few people have picked between their teeth with by Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette. Sometimes I wonder why I link to this [...]

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I won’t every update on every inning these guys pitch, but thought I’d sneak one in after in the post-hype of the debut. After giving up a run in his first inning Singh came back the next day against the GCL Yankees.
Singh hit Mitchell Delaney with a pitch, but then got Benjamin Gonzalez to ground [...]

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A pretty amazing day in baseball history as Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel made their debut for the GCL Pirates. Check out the box score here.
Not too shabby.

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I’ve been following the box scores of the GCL Pirates over the past week or so, waiting to see the names of Rinku and Dinesh. The closest thing I’ve found is Mpho’ Gift Ngoepe, the South African the Pirates signed last year. Incidentally, he’s 3-for-12 and is usually hitting leadoff.

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Hopefully whoever is making the movie of these guys was on hand for this…
From the 1,000,000 Arm blog:
Rinku and I going Barry Bonds house. We talking Barry Bonds sir about Pirates city. He saying very different when he going there spring training. He telling us what expecting there. He very good [...]

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Or, “The Two Indian Pitchers Signed by the Pirates go to Hooters.”
DJ sent this along actually, it’s a five-minute video chronicling the assent of Rinku and Dinesh that has the feel of a Disney production. Supposedly Disney is looking to make a film about the two so this clip may even be connected to that.

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This photo, posted today on Bleed Cubbie Blue, really struck me. It was taken at 2 a.m. on Saturday night. I had a long distance relationship with a woman in Chicago for about a year and I have great affection for the city and scenes like this. This despite the fact that I ended up [...]

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We’ve been following the saga of Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh since they won the Million Dollar Arm contest.  Since they just signed with the Bucs, we though it would be useful to readers to get some information on the players and their attributes, so here’s a brief write up to get to know the [...]

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As was reported first on NPB Tracker with a Japan Yahoo! story and then confirmed later by ESPN, the Pittsburgh Pirates have signed Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, the two boys from India that were found at the “Million Dollar Arm” contest that took place last year that I’ve covered in posts, here and here [...]

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This story more or less made my day. Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, the two  boys from India  that participated in  the Million Dollar Arm challenge I reported on here and here, have finished their pitching lessons/transformation, and will have a tryout tomorrow in front of some 20 major league scouts.
One year ago neither had [...]

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I like the idea of MLB teams scouting in India. Even better, I like the idea of the Cubs sending me to scout in India. I’d even go so far as to say there might be a better chance of finding a hidden gem in India than China, seeing as cricket isn’t entirely dissimilar from [...]

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