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Let's Go to the Videotape: 1987 Year in Review
This week, I bring to you a relic from the distant, hoary past of 1987. The clips come from a half-hour year-in-review special produced by Sports Extra, the long-running Channel 5 weekly highlights show. If you didn't have cable in the 1980s (and if you lived in the Tri State Area back then, that...
Coaching Shakeup As Mattingly Takes Over
Although the Dodgers have made no official announcements, and Ned Colletti pointedly said in a quote in Ken Gurnick's mlb.com column yesterday: "We're not going to do it [announce the coaching staff] piecemeal," said Colletti, who would not comment on individual coaches. facts and speculation are...
Joe Torre Leaving Dodgers At Year's End
Shocking news out of Babylon today, as it was announced that sleepy-eyed manager Joe Torre will step down after the season with bench coach and not-quite-Keith-Hernandez Don Mattingly in line to take over. Just when I thought there wasn't a worse candidate than Wally Backman to manage the 2011...
Washington Nationals Ask For Dodgers' Permission To Talk To Don Mattingly.
A single Tweet started the DC Faithful talking about the Washington Nationals' '09 Skipper Search (and no it wasn't Former DC GM Jim Bowden this time) as either Ben Goessling or Mark Zuckerman of the Washington Times' wrote this afternoon: "#Dodgers coach Don Mattingly said a few minutes ago the...
Is Don Mattingly Under Consideration As The Washington Nationals' Next Skipper?
After a 14-year career at first base with the New York Yankees, Don Mattingly came out of retirement to become the Yanks' hitting coach at the request of Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner in 2004, but according to New York Times' writer Tyler Kepner's October 24, 2007 article entitled, "Mattingly...
Jim Bowden On The Washington Nationals' Managerial Candidates...
When you're right, you're right, and even when it's the Former DC GM, I feel I must give him his due...Jim Bowden, more than a month before the Washington Nationals even selected Stephen Strasburg with the number one overall pick in the 2009 MLB First Year Player Draft, was quoted from an...
Around the Yankee Universe, 05.14.09
Here is a look around the Inter-Google at today's stories making news in the Yankee Universe. The Yankees had a little fun at Brett Gardner's expense following his first career home run Wednesday night. Personally, I had more fun watching Gardner's triple. When the ball shot past Toronto center...
Does An MVP Candidate Need His Team To Finish In 1st Place? D-Wade Hopes Not
With all the MVP talk surrounding Dwyane Wade, one point that many ‘experts’ make is that Wade is not on a 1st place team, while LeBeon James and Kobe Bryant are. How important is that when choosing an MVP? By definition, MVP is for the Most Valuable Player, but to whom? Is it to...
Wednesday Morning Rockpile:
Happy birthday, Todd Helton! You turned 35 today, and all you got was still being on the DL. Kind of sucks, doesn't it? All right, I guess you'll get a bit more than just a continued stay on the DL for his birthday. You also received a comparison to Don Mattingly. Also in that link: Outfielder...
BCB Interview: RHP Donovan Hand
Donovan Hand was a 14th-round pick out of Jacksonville State last year, and he's been a very pleasant surprise, making it all the way to AA in just his first full season. He went on the DL with an undisclosed injury the day after I talked to him, which may partially explain some of his struggles at...
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