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Ahhh… to dip my toes in the pool of my own mediocrity…could anything be sweeter???
And I come back just in time to hear all you freaks and nut-jobs whining and gripping about getting Ken Griffey, Jr. in the railroad stripes for the upcoming year.Read More

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It’s as if the most evil, most vile forces in nature (at least those not named Christopher Walken) have convened at Riverfront Stadium this season to awaken a dead from the neck up franchise in Cincinnati and give the Astros their first challenge for a division title in three years (sorry Pittsburgh).

Unfortunately, the evil is real and the evil is legit, and unless Father Karras awakens from his dirt nap at the bottom of the stairs, the Astros are on their own to face the Sons of Sin-ergy.Read More

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I’ll admit, it’s been quite a while since I’ve talked large amounts of smack towards an opponent.  So it’s time to get back in practice.

For all the magical comebacks that the Reds have produced, for all the great work their bullpen does, for all the gold chains that Greg Vaughn wears, all the “aw-shucks” crap that Jack McKeon has been spouting, the Reds will not win the division.Read More

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Nearly 20 years ago, in the fall of 1979 the Houston Astros made history.  They signed a free agent who was on what was supposed to be the downside of his career by the name of Lynn Nolan Ryan.  The Astros would make Ryan the first million dollar-a-year man in baseball.  The team he was leaving claimed that any .500 pitcher could replace Ryan.Read More

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Well, I just knew it’d be a matter of time before one of the esteemed columnists around here and I disagreed about something, and I’d have laid money that it’d be Ray K.Read More

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Halftime…go to your individual corners, talk to your cut man and get some water.  In what looks to be a wild second half, fans and players are going to need all the rest they can get.  

Last year, the Astros, Braves, Padres, Indians and Yankees were leading their divisions at the all star break; only the Angels blew a mid season lead.  This year there are races aplenty, including the D-backs against the Giants, Reds and Astros, Braves and Mets, Yankees and Red Sox and Rangers and Oakland.  All are with-in at least 5 games of one another and all teams have the potential to get better.  So now is as good a time as any to make some predictions for the second half of the season. Read More