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It’s not as bad as Sophie’s Choice, but picking between Jason and lar in their blog network’s awards voting is kinda sorta like picking between your kids. Your baseball-obsessed, sloughing off from work, probably-got-no-family-life-to-speak-of-because-they’re-reading-old-Baseball Digests-or-trying-to-hide-their-man-love-for-Derek-Jeter kids. Each are nominated for “Best Baseball Blog.” Jason is also nominated for “Blog of the Year.” Vote early and […]

Baseball is my sport, but NBC pays me, so I’m torn: In a television matchup of New York sports teams, baseball’s Yankees were more popular than football’s Giants. The Yankees earned an 11.4 rating for their Game 6 victory last night over the Los Angeles Angels in the American League Championship Series, shown on News […]

Like a lot of you, I’ve been watching the Steve Phillips business from afar. Between the almost complete lack of any real baseball angle whatsoever, and the fact that, unlike a lot of scandalous stories, this one has an innocent wife and children being dragged through it all, I really don’t see the percentage in […]

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Following up on Jason’s news from Friday, Rob announces the team-specific blogs that are now partnered with ESPN. There they are: • Fire Brand of the American League (Red Sox); • Mack Avenue (Tigers) • GoHalos.com (Angels); • Memories of Kevin Malone (Dodgers); • Nick’s Twins Blog; (Colt .45s); • It’s About the Money (Stupid!) […]

If you can get past the media/ad-speak, you’ll hear a tale of big market success making for some very happy television networks: Boasting a murderers’ row of big-market clubs–along with the Yankees and a pair of Los Angeles-area contenders, no less than six of the playoff-bound MLB franchises represent top 10 DMAs–the promise of a […]

I guess I’m not the only baseball writer who struggles to fit a day job in with the writing: Buster Olney (1:31 PM) Hey, guys — I’ve got a call I have to take, I’ll be back in five. Buster Olney (1:43 PM) Sorry, guys… I had to take that call. Back to the chat…

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