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Out With The Crowd: “The AL East is weird this year”
July 28, 2012 – 11:40 AM | 7 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “The AL East is weird this year”

OWTC celebrates the upcoming trade deadline by talking Yankees baseball with my old friend and lifelong Bombers fan Tim (he’s popped up on TN before as “Omega”). We talked about run differentials, reversions to mean, …

Out With The Crowd: “Look, it’s hard to count to three, okay?”
June 21, 2012 – 10:04 AM | 11 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “Look, it’s hard to count to three, okay?”

With the “Theo agonistes” stories going around the baseball press in the last couple of weeks, it seemed like a good time to chat with a fan of the franchise St. Epstein is expected to …

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 …

Out With The Crowd: “I bet Pudge would come back in a heartbeat”
May 28, 2012 – 8:31 PM | 10 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “I bet Pudge would come back in a heartbeat”

Is it all coming together at last for the Washington Nationals in 2012? It looks that way — if catchers stop dropping like Spinal Tap drummers, at least. Photographer and Nats loyalist Cheryl Nichols talked …

Out With The Crowd: “You’re a self-indulgent vulgar slob”
May 21, 2012 – 7:54 PM | 6 Comments
Out With The Crowd: “You’re a self-indulgent vulgar slob”

The minute I decided to do the Out With The Crowd series, I wanted to try to get Old Gator to talk to me about the Miami Marlins — or, as he calls them, “the …

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 …