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Squared Up: Rainout Theater
April 7, 2011 – 3:11 PM | 43 Comments
Squared Up: Rainout Theater

(“…Poot!”)
As much as I love spring baseball, because it’s baseball and thank God and can we all please stop talking about stupid college basketball please?, it does rain a lot in the spring, so I …

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 …