And Cue the Theme from MASH (We can all hum it)

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Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today.  Yesterday was a bad one for the Yankees, although they won their spring training game 2-0 over the Braves.  They were_ relatively lucky with the injury bug up to now.  Yesterday they should have had an ambulance on site. First, closer  Andrew Miller took a liner off ...

End of Speculation about Matt Harvey

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The Mets did nobody a service yesterday by not announcing what was  the matter with their scheduled opening day starter, Matt Harvey.  By not telling, they left the door open for all manner of speculation, including one TV report that turned out to be false which I believed, to my unhappineess.    The actual trouble  could ...

T Minus 14 Days and Counting

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Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today.  Two weeks from today, it's all real.  The first pitch will be thrown in Pittsburgh and off we'll go with another season of baseball.  The Pirates haven't had a good spring up to now.  Until Friday their hitting was the main issue.  It was clear they were ...

portrait of a Pioneer

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Hi all. Here's how I see baseball today.  Here's a story so well done I couldn't have improved it in any way.  Ms. Jana Paley has written a brilliant sketch of Buck O'Neil  for her Facebook page and I reprint it here. "What kind of determination and talent did it take for a young black man to ...

Saved by the Birds!!

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Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today. With exhibition games already happening, former Pirate slugger Pedro Alvarez probably had resigned himself to checking out the independent leagues if he wanted to play ball in 2016.  But, like the cavalry in an old Lone Ranger episode, the Orioles came riding down the canyon and rescued ...

If You Had New Mexico giving 24, YOU LOST!

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Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball today. BULLETIN! BULLETIN!___  Before we begin our regular column, the latest word just received is shocking. Chase Utley won't face any_ suspension for the brutal slide that broke Ruben Tejada's leg.  This is an astounding case of MLB caving on a suspension on appeal.  There has been a rule ...