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Out With The Crowd: “I’m so glad this is his last season”
May 7, 2012 – 2:25 PM | 4 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “I’m so glad this is his last season”

Out With The Crowd ventured into the NL East late last week when I interviewed Lauren, the head rodeo clown at LoveMyBravos.com, about bullpen-management issues, stupid baby names, and J. Hey’s new look.
Sarah D. Bunting: …

Out With The Crowd: “Pure joy. Gone forever.”
May 5, 2012 – 10:13 AM | 6 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Pure joy. Gone forever.”

Welcome back to Out With The Crowd, and our first foray into the National League. Joining us is TN reader and Colorado fan Leigh Bingham; we discussed Jimenez v. Tulo, pantsless mascots, porous defense, and …

Out With The Crowd: “You are not Herb Brooks”
May 3, 2012 – 8:32 AM | 15 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “You are not Herb Brooks”

In this installment of Out With The Crowd, I talked with TN/baseball regular commenter — and level-headed Red Sox fan — BSD about Cherington agonistes, chicken tattletales, and stabilizing douchebags. We spoke on April 21 …

Out With The Crowd: “This is not a feat, people!”
April 29, 2012 – 10:56 PM | 16 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “This is not a feat, people!”

Welcome to Out With The Crowd, a series of interviews with fans of each of the 30 MLB teams about their hopes, frustrations, and predictions for the 2012 season.
In the leadoff spot is an Athletic …

El Hombre: 2011 World Series Open Thread
October 27, 2011 – 10:16 AM | 42 Comments
El Hombre: 2011 World Series Open Thread

I realized yesterday that I’d completely forgotten to set up a WS entry — and regretted that even more while watching Pujols collect a record 14 total bases. I mean, not that I enjoyed watching …

The Tomato Nation Fall Classic II: Cruz-ing
October 25, 2011 – 11:03 AM | 6 Comments
The Tomato Nation Fall Classic II: Cruz-ing

The TN Fall Classic II still needs your help! As of this writing, we’ve done a good bit — $1,001 — but we’ve still got 4K to go. Japan really got put through it this …

Peanuts in the Outfield: 2011 LCS Open Thread
October 8, 2011 – 10:41 PM | 13 Comments
Peanuts in the Outfield: 2011 LCS Open Thread

Another Suds Series! The Rangers get another shot at a ring! And the shit-talk is already underway with Greinke’s comments about Carpenter? Awwwwwesome.
The LCSes could get pretty crazy; discuss everything from CJ’s unsuitable celebrity crush …

Rays of Light: 2011 Division Series Open Thread
October 1, 2011 – 2:10 PM | 41 Comments
Rays of Light: 2011 Division Series Open Thread

It’s the moooooost wonderful tiiiiiiime of the…you know, I think I make that joke vis-a-vis baseball when pitchers and catchers report, too. And on Opening Day. Well, the hell with it. It’s true.
Welcome to your …

Heart Attacks
September 29, 2011 – 3:46 PM | 32 Comments
Heart Attacks

Wow. WOW.
I feel bad for Braves and Sox fans, I do. God knows I understand what it’s like to watch a team floundering (although, when you give up hope of contending in, like, the 1800s, …

Trade-Baited Breath
July 13, 2011 – 1:19 PM | 8 Comments
Trade-Baited Breath

A few, hopefully quick, thoughts on the Mets and the trade deadline here…
As Bean aptly put it in a text last night about the K-Rod trade, “Alderson is ninja.” I didn’t have any opinions about …