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Free Friday: Going to the Dogs
Lots of fun stuff today in Free Friday… Worst Strike Calls Since 2018 I’m going to introduce a new JoeBlogs feature called: “Fun Things You Can Do with…
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My NFL Mock Draft!
OK, it’s NFL Draft Day, and I decided to do a fun little thing with it, to celebrate the 150-day countdown to my upcoming book, WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL. I…
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A Sick-Day Checkup
Ugh. Yesterday, pretty much out of nowhere, I started feeling a bit sick. I mean not super-sick; just the usual cold and flu stuff—chills, headache…
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Brilliant Reader Questions!
Time for some Brilliant Reader questions! When I was in Dayton, Brilliant Reader Renate asked me to find her first game at Yankee Stadium—she remembered…
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Looking Back, and Forward
Let me catch you up a little bit on JoeBlogs and what’s going on in my life, because it has been a whirlwind the last few months, and I feel like I’m…
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Free Friday: Jontay Porter and a Whole Lotta Baseball
Thanks to all who came out to my WHY WE LOVE BASEBALL event here at Coachella, er, Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Thursday. It was, and I say this with love…
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The Generational Player
Ah, that Tom Tango loves to send us on wild goose chases, doesn’t he? Today’s features an idea: The generational player. You will, every now and again…
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Whiteyball
In a nine-day span in June of 1949, the New York Yankees signed two 17-year-old prospects from the Midwest; one a shortstop out of a town called…
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Non Dimenticar, John Sterling
“Anyone who doesn’t think the best hamburger place in the world is in his hometown is a sissy… and probably a security risk.” — Calvin Trillin This is…
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Could Scottie Scheffler Be That Guy?
Here’s what I know about Masters champion Scottie Scheffler: Nothing. Well, OK, not nothing. I think he’s from Texas. I’ve heard it mentioned a few…
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Free Friday: Brilliant Reader Questions!
OK, baseball season is rolling along, the Masters is in full swing, etc… so it’s time to bring back Brilliant Reader Questions! Remember, you can send…
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A Modest Proposal
Pretty much everywhere I go, someone will inevitably ask the question: “If you were commissioner, what would you do to improve baseball?” I’ve been…
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No. 2: Atlanta Braves and No. 1: Los Angeles Dodgers
OK, here we are at the end of the baseball previews! And only a couple of weeks into the season! As with every crazy project we try here at JoeBlogs, I…
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Hearts, Minds and Arms
Let’s begin with this crazy note from Scott Pianowski. This one is wild when you first think about it… but it gets much, much wilder when you actually…
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