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• The Dugout: The Cubs Get Ricketts
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/30/2009 11:15 PM ET
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• The Chicago Cubs have finally won. They've got a new owner who isn't afraid to go straight to the local media and announce that the Cubs are going to the World Series. Boastful words, considering that ... More »
• The Dugout: Bud Selig Will Fix Baseball
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/27/2009 11:00 PM ET
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• Bud Selig is not the kind of commissioner to sit there jamming his fingers up his snout, doing nothing. No, Bud Selig is going to change baseball for the better. Why, right now Bud is probably at his ... More »
• The Dugout: Return Of the Mac
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/26/2009 4:45 PM ET
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• Whoever was just hired as the hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals, raise your hand. All right, you in the suit. Tell us how you got the job. What? You don't want to talk about it? Hey that seems ... More »
• The Dugout: Evening Plans
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/24/2009 7:00 PM ET
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• Unless The Lord decides to once again destroy the evil of the world with a thunderous rainstorm tonight, we're going to get Game 6 of the ALCS between the Yankees and the Angels. By now, we've asked ... More »
• The Dugout: Common Ground
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/22/2009 4:15 PM ET
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• The playoffs are almost over and the stage is set for the defending World Champion Philadelphia Phillies to face the dreadnought New York Yankees ... or the Los Angeles Angels Angels, pending a dead ... More »
• The Dugout: Shapiro Narrows It Down
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/19/2009 11:55 PM ET
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• To me, the playoffs mean one thing: the wise decision-making skills of Cleveland Indians General Manager Mark Shapiro! After firing Jim Thome/snapping turtle hybrid Eric Wedge as the Tribe head coach, ... More »
• The Dugout: American League Pictionary Championship Series
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/18/2009 9:30 PM ET
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• A lot of stories are coming out of the American League Championship Series this year. Alex Rodriguez has shunned his one major downside -- an inability to deliver in the clutch -- to destroy ... More »
• The Dugout: The ALCS, Very Funny
• By B. Thompson Stroud 10/17/2009 10:00 PM ET
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• Here is a quick list of excuses to explain where The Dugout has been: our website is producing a code that angers Google and now nobody can look at or operate it properly, we got "busy with life ... More »
• The Dugout: Mike Blowers Your Mind
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/30/2009 11:15 PM ET
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• Mike Blowers knows more about baseball than you. His AM radio predictions for Seattle Mariners third baseman and spellcheck challenger Matt Tuiasosopo came true in increasingly accurate and eerie ... More »
• The Dugout: Blauch Buster
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/29/2009 11:00 PM ET
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• As reported earlier today, former All-Star, World Series champion, and all-around somewhat competent baseball player Chuck Knoblauch has been charged with hitting his common-law wife in the face and ... More »
• The Dugout: Detroit Ink
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/22/2009 11:20 PM ET
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• When asked to name the Major League Baseball player who most resembles Allen Iverson, Detroit Tiger and fellow Lynchburg, Va. alumni Brandon Inge wouldn't be at the top of the list. But here we are in ... More »
• The Dugout: Rational Human Beings
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/21/2009 11:30 PM ET
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• Everyone is out to get Milton Bradley. First it was the umpires, then it was Lou Piniella (or was it Lou, then the umpires? I can't remember). Now, the Chicago Cubs have sent Milton home for the rest ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now Finale
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/20/2009 11:30 PM ET
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• The 1997 Cleveland Indians have finally been reassembled on the 2009 Los Angeles Dodgers, and it is up to venerable Dugout protagonists Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez to lead them through the playoffs ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 7
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/17/2009 11:30 PM ET
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• The "youth movement" continues in Los Angeles, as Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez continue their countrywide trip to reunite the championship hopeful 1997 Cleveland Indians on the championship hopeful ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 6
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/14/2009 4:00 PM ET
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• 1 2 3 4 5 The Dugout favorites Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez have taken a break from danging dingers together on the playoff-bound Los Angeles Dodgers to travel the country and possibly fictional ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 5
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/08/2009 10:30 PM ET
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• Welcome to part five of our apparently 30-part series about how Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez play for the same team, just like when they were part of the 1997 World Series challenging Cleveland ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 4
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/06/2009 10:30 PM ET
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• Not to ignore everything else that is happening in the world of baseball, but Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez are on the same team and you should be reading about it. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 3
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/03/2009 10:30 PM ET
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• Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez suddenly find themselves playing for the same team again. Their mission: to travel the United States on a tandem bicycle and reunite the ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 2
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/02/2009 10:30 PM ET
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• As you may have read yesterday, Jim Thome was awarded to the Los Angeles Dodgers like so much sassy Sapphire, reuniting him with former Indians teammate Manny Ramirez. In the Dugout universe (which is ... More »
• The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 1
• By B. Thompson Stroud 9/01/2009 10:00 PM ET
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• In the most important "real life benefiting The Dugout" moment since Barry Bonds dressed up like Paula Abdul, rosy-cheeked Faulknerian idiot man-child and Dugout regular Jim Thome has been traded to ... More »
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