I had an e-mail chat with Daniel Shoptaw last weekend, someone I met when I was looking for really good baseball bloggers a couple of years ago. His blog, C70 At The Bat , follows the daily ongoings of his favorite baseball team, the St. Louis Cardinals. You can also find him on Twitter at @C70 . We started by chatting about Albert Pujols and ended up talking about Pujols (in part two). It should give you a pretty good inside look at the Cardinals […]
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Sweet Chin Muzak – Spring Is In The Air
To many coupled folks, February 14th meant love and gifts and cupid’s arrow splintering their backsides. I saw it all over my Facebook page. Young people were in love. But to baseball fans, February 14th meant something entirely different. Cupid’s arrow splintered their backsides for a completely different reason. It was to signify that pitchers and catchers were reporting to spring training. Baseball is back! Spring training is more than just pre-season baseball. In the NFL, NBA, and NHL, pre-season […]
Sweet Chin Muzak – More Predictions
It’s time for … more predictions! Again, these are quick, shotgun predictions about the 2011 MLB season. If you missed part one, check it out . The Red Sox are the best team in the AL Usually, when teams make huge splashes, you can find holes in what they did. But I’m trying to find holes in what the Red Sox did, and I really can’t. They traded for Adrian Gonzalez and signed Carl Crawford, two players who should do major damage in […]
Sweet Chin Muzak: Remembering The World Series
I’ll have a brand new column next week looking at 2011, but I felt this was a perfect time to remember what 2010 meant to me and my family as San Francisco Giants fans. I first started following baseball closely when I was just 8 years old. The year was 1984 and the Giants were terrible. Just awful. I did get to go to the 1984 All-Star game which was played at Candlestick Park. Now THAT was a windy day. […]
Sweet Chin Muzak: On Cliff Lee And Benjamins
The 2nd Sweet Chin Muzak column explores the signing of Cliff Lee by the Philadelphia Phillies and why he spurned offers from his former team, the Texas Rangers, as well as the powerhouse New York Yankees.
Sweet Chin Muzak: On The World Series Champs And Derek Jeter
In Popblerd’s first “Sweet Chin Muzak” column, GG talks about Cliff Lee’s erroneous designation as baseball’s best postseason pitcher and the unnecessary Derek Jeter negotiations.