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Out With The Crowd: “Be very careful with Chris Sale”
March 28, 2013 – 11:49 AM | No Comment
Out With The Crowd: “Be very careful with Chris Sale”

Out With The Crowd is back for another season, as I get a sense of the fans’ feelings about their teams in 2013. With Opening Day not far away, I spoke with longtime ChiSox fan …

Crazy Nines: Gesundheit! (Chewiest Baseball Names)
August 26, 2008 – 9:37 AM | 12 Comments
Crazy Nines: Gesundheit! (Chewiest Baseball Names)

Let me say right up top that this is a pretty arbitrary list; not every chewy name in baseball history made the cut. Generally speaking, I included names 1) longer than ten letters, and names …