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Entries tagged with 'Alex Rodriguez'Scioscia deserving of Manager awardI had one of the two local American League Manager of the Year award votes this season. Picking Mike Scioscia was not a difficult choice. The Angels manager starts each season with the best talent in the division. But... Ten Reasons to Like the Phillies in World Series!Here are 10 reasons I think the Phillies are being viewed as too much of an underdog against the mighty Yankees in this World Series. 1. Cliff Lee -- I'll take him over C.C. Sabathia for this season. I... Baseball playoffs: Team of the Decade at stake?If the first round of the baseball playoffs left something to be desired, with no dramatic 5th games and only one series going beyond a sweep, I think the rest will be very good. It's hard to imagine any... Freeway Series: For a week or 2, it livesEach year, at least one of baseball's four first-round series defies logic. The better team, the hotter team, the club with superior pitching doesn't win. You can figure out which series I expect that to be when we move... Baseball season crawling to finish line, bring on Series!Can you remember the last time the MLB season had 10 games to go and there was only one race to watch and it was of minimal interest unless you are a huge Tigers or Twins fan? If you... Mays vs. Mantle, Maris vs. McGwire in Derby!The Ultimate Home Run Derby moves into the Sweet 16 today with some great matchups. If you want to jump ahead and vote, you can by clicking here. Comments on the 2nd-round results. Best match: Roger Maris 112, Sammy... Let's play Ultimate Home Run Derby!The matchups in our 64-man fantasy Ultimate Home Run Derby that will be determined by you, the readers and voters, are set. Here are the first-round matchups. You determine the winners. As I was seeding the hitters, there was only... Booing A-Rod? What's that about?Got some very interesting comments on twitter and facebook (I will have those linked to this site soon -- a work in progress) on why Rangers fans boo A-Rod. Here's what I said. It's not because of steroids. They were... Yankees: Your Tex is on fire!April wasn't much of a month for Mark Teixeira. This came as a surprise to no Rangers fans by the way. Tex often struggled with slow starts here. Take Alex Rodriguez out of the lineup, and you could pretty... A-Rod should still face RangersThe announcement that Alex Rodriguez will need 10 weeks off due to his hip injury is only the latest in a string of nothing but bad news for the Yankees third baseman. Barring another injury or a setback, Rangers fans... A-Rod does his best for mediaThere are plenty of people out there who can't stand anything about Alex Rodriguez and they're not necessarily Yankee haters. They just don't like anything about the guy. I thought A-Rod did about as good as he could have hoped... Bigger sports crime: A-Rod's or Margarito's?If this was the '60s and boxing ranked right up there with baseball in terms of its national appeal, we could be arguing (on a '60s version of "Around the Horn'' perhaps) whether Alex Rodriguez or Antonio Margarito had done... Hall of Fame voting: It's no picnic!I didn't become a voter for baseball's Hall of Fame until December. Part of it's fun. A big part of it now isn't. I don't have to make this decision for years, but right now, here's how I would vote... |
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