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At Least Someone’s Thinking Positively

Dave Van Dyck reports from Glendale: The defense part? “Way better than last year,” Guillen said. “We were so bad defensively that I had the (designated hitter) making errors,” Guillen joked. The...

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2010 Chicago Baseball Preview: Beyond Thunderdome

You root for the Cubs? The Cubs? What’s the matter with you? In case you’ve been living in a cave, or have perhaps been sequestered for the past several decades, I’d like to remind you there’s a vastly...

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Another Week, Another Reason To Laugh At Us

I. Oney Guillen, who has exactly as many major-league at-bats to his name as you and I, did not like working for the three geeks who never played the game and who know nothing about sports, by which I...

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Mauer Power

It would be both easy and logical to tremble and shake at the news out of Minnesota. “Eight years is a long time,” some might say, “especially when those eight years are happening largely at the...

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2010 Chicago White Sox Season Preview: The Year Of When

For the first time since 1991, the White Sox enter the season with exactly zero players whose recent performance suggests they’ll hit 30 home runs. Yes, there are guys who could bring the thunder,...

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And Now, A Few Insanely Specific Predictions

Carlos Quentin will hit more home runs than Alex Rios and Andruw Jones combined. This could demand Quentin hit 35; this could just as easily demand he hit 15. But for better or worse, he pretty much is...

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2010 Chicago Cubs Season Precap

[Editor's Note: With the regular season underway, our Cubs correspondent finally got around to writing this up. It is pretty mean and surprisingly belligerent, as to be expected from the self-described...

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The Real & Unreal Of South Side Baseball

Aside from warm weather, a pleasant diversion, and the all-encompassing sense of false hope, my favorite thing about early-season baseball has to be the magnification of every accomplishment. Buehrle...

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Death at 161st and River

It was May 2nd. A Sunday. Eighty-four degrees and partly cloudy. The home team in white with blue pinstripes, the visitors riding in from the west in gray. One with nothing to lose, the other with...

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Hanging Up The Spikes

I. The 35th Street Road Show continued last weekend in Kansas City, as a group of friends and I took in Friday night’s Royals-Sox showdown. Mark Buehrle, we noted early on, had thrown a perfect game...

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