• mccoey01: Keep an eye on Phillies' Dominic Brown. This kid's gonna be good....

Dear UmpBumpers, If you like baseball and you use Facebook, chances are you’ve seen the Bleacher Report’s ad for bloggers. The ad, when clicked upon, brings you here. If you click on MLB, on the front page you’ll see the headline “Ellsbury on the Fast Track” posted by an Alex Potter: Of course, I had [...]

Is it opening day yet? Because there’s only so much that one can write about games that don’t count. Thank god for Mia and Nomar popping out those babies and Steinbrenner excommunicating his son-in-law, or else this blog might have gone out of business entirely. And if you think I’m the only person stretching for [...]

So the Matsuzaka deal is taking up half the front page of the Boston Globe today. I start to read, and then flip to the sports pages to finish the story. And what do I see there, but Dan Shaughnessy’s column. Shaughnessy is a controversial figure in the Boston sports world. He’s been writing for [...]

So, yeah. I filed this column with the Boston Metro last week. If I can just take a page from an old college professor for a moment and quote myself (sorry): I don’t know what the opposite of pennant fever is, but I’ve got it. Playing-out-the-schedule Syndrome? Seasonal Ineffective Disorder? Offseasonitis? [...] We’ll no doubt be [...]

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    • » mccoey01 Keep an eye on Phillies’ Dominic Brown. This kid’s gonna be good.
    • » scobo What about Granderson?
    • » Max Just fire him already. Check out www.thefantasybaseballguru.com leave comments ask qs and follow TheGuru on...
    • » Kris I am mystified by the divergent opinions on Dan Haren. His peripherals say that he is indeed one of the elite,...
    • » Paul Moro Dave, there is every indication that he will “figure it out”. In fact, there’s not much...

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