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Out With The Crowd: “The team leads the world in runs scored”
April 2, 2013 – 5:14 PM | 4 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “The team leads the world in runs scored”

Evan Jordan’s confident the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California, Estados Unidos, Earth can win the AL West — but he’s less confident than some, primarily thanks to pitching. We spoke late last week about …

Out With The Crowd: “Even Giants fans felt bad for us”
June 5, 2012 – 5:00 PM | 10 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Even Giants fans felt bad for us”

With the Dodgers still in the lead at the beginning of June, it seemed like a good time to talk to a Bums fan about Kemp’s DL stint, the end of the McCourt era, and …

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 Squared Up Podcast, Episode 3: Bloody Sox
March 14, 2011 – 10:46 AM | 5 Comments
The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 3: Bloody Sox

I took it on the road for Episode 3 — to God’s Little Acre, New Jersey, where friends of TN Mike “BSD” Dunn and Janine “J9” Jenik-Dunn rolled out a fantastic spread of peanuts, Cracker …

Oscars 2011 Death Race: Picks/Postmortem
February 27, 2011 – 10:59 AM | 13 Comments
Oscars 2011 Death Race: Picks/Postmortem

I didn’t do so well on these last year, which I think is because of the Death Race, not in spite of it — but perhaps I can improve my percentages in ’11. From a …

The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail
November 23, 2010 – 9:23 AM | 4 Comments
The Squared Up Podcast, Episode 1: Pith Fail

It didn’t feel like an hour, but that’s how long inaugural guest Couch Baron and I blathered on about baseball in the first episode of The Squared Up Podcast. I’ll have a better handle on …

Squared Up: Card Games
July 2, 2010 – 12:28 AM | 16 Comments
Squared Up: Card Games

I snagged a pack of Topps the other day for the hell of it, and something isn’t quite right about it. Maybe it’s a special promotional kind of pack that contains a higher proportion of …

Squared Up: Remember the Maine (…wait: don’t)
June 24, 2010 – 8:10 AM | 5 Comments
Squared Up: Remember the Maine (…wait: don’t)

On May 17, Hanley Ramirez boots a ball, loafs after it, and gets benched. He reacts by snarking on his manager, Fredi Gonzalez, for never having played in the major leagues; he also refuses to …