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thesportsfag Wrote: 2011 Hottest Male Athlete Tournament: C.J. Wilson vs Andrew Cogliano
2011 Hottest Male Athlete Tournament Sponsored by Baskit Swingers Region - First Round: C.J (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: 2011 Hottest Male Athlete Tournament: Joe Mauer vs Richard Berankis
2011 Hottest Male Athlete Tournament Sponsored by Baskit Swingers Region - First Round: Joe (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Simp-Lee Irresistible
At the end of 2009 season Philadelphia figured they wouldn't be able to sign Cliff Lee when he became a free agent after the 2010 season so they traded the ace lefty to Seattle in exchange for prospects.[caption id="attachment_10326" align="align (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Red Sox set to sign Carl Crawford
The Boston Globe reported late Wednesday  -- after my ambien had started kicking in -- a seven-year, $142 million contract for free-agent outfielder Carl Crawford.  Mo (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Why The Rangers Will Not Sign Cliff Lee
As baseball's winter meetings keep chugging along in Florida the Cliff Lee sweepstakes has entered another phase, one in which when completed will not see the Rangers as the winning team on the other side.  Why not?  Well here are a couple of reasons (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Jayson's Worth
[caption id="attachment_10232" align="alignright" width="300" caption="So long Jayson"][/caption]Memo to the Nationals:  You're supposed to be cutting cost in Washi (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Josh Hamilton captures American League MVP
Josh Hamilton became the fifth Texas Ranger to win the AL MVP award today in another vote that wasn't really close.[caption id="attachment_10147" align="ali (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Joey Votto captures National League MVP
It wasn't even close. Cincinnati first baseman Joey Votto captured 31 out of 32 first-place votes in winning the 20 (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: King Felix Wins AL Cy Young
Felix Hernandez of the Seattle Mariners picked up the 2010 American League Cy Young award today.While some may argue that a pitcher with only 13 wins isn't deser (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Buster Posey and Neftali Feliz Capture ROY
[caption id="attachment_10060" align="alignright" width="202" caption="Buster wins NL ROY"][/caption]They faced one another in this fall's World Series, but on M (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: College Girl Responsible for Grady's Semi Nude Photo Leakage
Leakage isn't the kind of word you ever wish to be included in the same sentence as your name, but there's news on the who-leaked-grady's-almost-nude-phot (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Brian Wilson Nails the Good Night Show
Brian Wilson's too-much-awesome shtick saved Jay Leno from another lame-ass interview last night.Leno's opening question: Is that a real mohawk?Wilson, nailed it! I'll say there's a better than zero chance this was the first time a leather (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Baseball's Oldest Adage Rings True....Finally
Good pitching beats good hitting.  I was raised to believe in that, but somewhere along the way I lost my way;  kind of like most of us do with religion.   But it wasn't a handsy priest that precipitated my early onset of Alzheimers, but rather drugs (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Moreland's Blast Lifts Rangers
Trailing two games to none and embarrassed in San Francisco, the Rangers needed a lift and a win to get back in (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Cain Dominates Texas
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thesportsfag Wrote: Uribe Leads The Way As Giants Pound The Rangers
To some it was a game full of surprises as the Giants beat down the Rangers to take Game 1 of the 2010 World Series, 11-7. The cliff notes version: Cliff Lee wasn't sharp; the Giants adjusted; the Rangers committed a season-high four errors; and J (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Predictably Predictable Predictions - 2010 World Series
When the season first started the Rangers were 20/1 favorites to win the World Series and the Giants were 16/1, but here we are at the start of (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Extreme Roster Makeover Baseball Edition
Baseball is a grind. It's a daily game played, at times, through an excruciating long, hot, dry summer. Making it through the season with what you thought you had is just not a luxury teams, general managers or team presidents are afforded.Eve (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: New York Post Hammers Yankees
There are a few things you can count on in life; where there's smoke there's fire, Lindsay Lohan's never-ending rehab and the New York Post will hammer you when you're down.(More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Yankees vs Rangers Game 1
There's just no way the Rangers can win this series, right?  After all, the numbers are stacked against them.  The only number the Rangers have is 0; as in the number of championships, American League Pennants and home playoff wins combined. That's (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Freak Performance(s)
The Freak, also known as Timmy Tim Boy Lincecum shut down Atlanta with a two-hit complete gamer in the first of the Giant (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: David Price and Evan Longoria, Really?!?
Tampa Bay Rays' pitcher David Price and third baseman Evan Longoria don't understand why Tampa Bayans/St Peters' peoples were largely absent from a possible playoff-clinching game twice this week. Price took to his Twitter account and said it was 'e (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Perfect Excuse for More Replay
I hate to say this but within the framework of major league baseball there's no precedent to overturn first base umpire Jim Joyce's blown call.In case you missed it:The call cost Tiger's pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game; not just (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: The myth of the All-Star snub
At the top of my list of pet peeves, right up there with douche bags who wear ballcaps as accessories, is media lame asses who recycle stories without putting any thought into them.A typical sportswriter's brain works a little something like this: (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: From The Heirloom: Out in the Stands 2010 at Target Field
Guest post from Randy Stern Photos by Randy SternI'll admi (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: World Series Preview
If you are looking at this World Series to find hotties in action than you're sure to be disappointed but that shouldn't take away from what, on paper, appears to be one of the most interesting World Series in some time. The Cinderellas of the past (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Simp-Lee Dominant
Last night we were witnesses to one of the most memorable and dominant pitching perfomances in World Series history as Cliff Lee threw a complete game six hitter, allowing only one run and striking out ten. It was a performance, on the game's bigge (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Chase-ing Mr October
[caption id="attachment_1965" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Utley ties Reggie Jackson\'s World Series record (Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images)"][/caption]Chas (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Twins and Tigers square off for AL Central title
Something extremely rare will happen today. Before today, only 8 times in the 100+ year history of MLB has there been a need to play a tiebreaker game to determine a slot in baseball's post season. The winner of this afternoon's game between the De (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Rockies and Phillies Preview
As you read through my baseball post season reviews you will notice two recurring themes. Who's playing better down the stretch and what team has the pitching rotation (starters, middle relief and closer) settled.The Rays of '08 and the Rockies (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Yankees/Twins Preview
It seems like no one is giving the Minnesota Twins any chance of beating the Yankees in the ALDS and for good reason. When your pitching matchups are CC Sabathia, AJ Burnett and Andy Pettitte against Brian Duensing, Nick Blackburn and Carl Pavano th (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Dodgers/Cardinals Preview
Two future hall of fame managers -- Joe Torre and Tony LaRussa -- square off in the premier series of the NLDS.The Dodgers 2009 season had more ups and downs than (insert your own gay sex reference here). With a roided up Manny Ramirez the Dodge (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Breaking Down the Dodgers and Phillies
In 2007 and 2008 we were all witnesses to two Cinderfellas -- Colorado and Tampa Bay -- taking center stage and advancing to the World Series. In 2009 the high dollar, big market teams are the only ones left standing. With the nations top two TV ma (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Yankees and Angels face off for AL Crown
As baseball organizations go, the Yankees and Angels are about as good as it gets. Over the course of 162 games, New York and Los Angeles / Anaheim proved to be the class of the American League. And although many baseball fans fell in love with th (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Angels are Blowing it
Uncharacteristically the Los Angeles Angels are blowing it. An organization known for great defense has committed five errors in the their first two games of the ALCS and return to LA facing an 0-2 series deficit. Yet, it's the mental mistakes that (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Angels Survive At Home
If history teaches us anything it's that teams facing elimination at home perform well. Even more so when the opposing team knows they are headed back home for two games with a chance to close it out.[caption id="attachment_1718" align="alignright (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: After further review baseball needs more replay
[caption id="attachment_1702" align="alignright" width="264" caption="Baseball umpire\'s mistakes are magnified during the playoffs"][/caption]With the advent of HDTV and (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Sabathia and A-Rod Ignite Yankees
[caption id="attachment_1707" align="alignright" width="240" caption="CC dominates Angels in game 4 of the ALCS"][/caption]With his team in danger of losing momentum in (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Defending Champs Dominate Like No Other
You can tell a lot about a sport just by following the money, and it's no surprise to even the most casual of sports fans that the Yankees dominate baseball like no other team in any other sport.[caption id="attachment_4364" align="alignright" widt (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Final 4 and Pre Season Baseball Predictions
A crazy busy day finds me reconnecting with my husband on the house work. I'm amazed at how quickly a couple can drift apart when they got a new house replete with projects. I'm also amazed how quickly alcohol can help you open up, not that way, an (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Yankees Not the Most Hated Team
A new sentiment score developed by Nielsen ranks the San Francisco Giants as the organization with the most positive sentiment, foll (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: The Good Old Guys
Are we entering a new era in major league baseball? Are we witnessing the beginning of a new trend where savvy veterans are able to hang on to their careers without 'major league stuff'? Are the effects of the steroid era beginning to diminish? (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: "Phenom"-enal
Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg's highly anticipated debut was nothing short of phenomenal. With the exception of one pitch, a hanging slider to Pirates 3B Delwyn Young in the 4th, he was virtually unhittable, showing great command of (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Hot Tub Time Machine Predictions
At the beginning of the season if you'd have tried to convince me the Padres, Reds, Braves and Rangers would be leading their divisions I would've said there's a better chance the guy who directed The Passion of the Christ would punch his girlfriend (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Why Ozzie Guillen Is Wrong
I like guys who are outspoken and aren't afraid to speak their minds. It's a double-edged sword that can both win you some admirers and make other's question your motives.Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is one of these outspoken guys I l (More)
thesportsfag Wrote: Now that's a fight
The Reds are Cardinals square off before a pitch is thrown in the bottom of the 1st. It's going to be fun watching this race down the stretch.UPDATE: Major League Baseball yanked the video from YouTube (More)