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This is Topic: David Lengel
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| Greetings From Across The Pond |
Hello British baseball fans—I hope you’re all enjoying the start of the 2006 season. Let me pose a question if I may. If we’re honest with each other, and I think we have that sort of relationship, would we admit that we haven’t been totally blown away by anything yet?
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Posted bydlengel on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 11:57 (6427 Reads)
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| Hello Goodbye Hello |
Dear Fans,
By now most of you have figured out that I will no longer be hosting MLB 2006. It is hard to describe just what an agonizing decision it was to leave Jonny, Erik, and the rest of the crew that helps bring our sport to the UK audience.
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Posted bydlengel on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 05:48 (4729 Reads)
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| Thanks Fans |
I would like to thank everyone involved in baseball--from the fans to the Five crew and Major League Baseball International for a fantastic season.
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Posted bydlengel on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 06:49 (3490 Reads)
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| Bits & Bobs |
Sick. That’s the only way to describe how St. Louis Cardinals fans must feel after being dismissed from the playoffs. How can a team that won 100 games fall to a club that scraped to 89 wins, had to wait for the final day of the season to book their postseason tickets, and started the season 15-30?
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Posted bydlengel on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 02:09 (1033 Reads)
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| Wake Up Call |
Last night woke me up. I must admit, I was finding it tough to get into the playoffs. As someone who knows what it’s like to tune into the Air Force Network to battle the fuzz to hear pitches beamed from the USA to Germany and back to Britain, I suppose I shouldn’t complain about watching the majority of the baseball playoffs on a laptop computer.
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Posted bydlengel on Monday, October 10, 2005 - 02:41 (1576 Reads)
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| Tonight on Five |
Another season, done, over. Well, almost. There are a few games left in the 2005 season, some of which could have a large impact on the playoff picture. Here is what you can expect tonight on Five.
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Posted bydlengel on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 04:52 (1447 Reads)
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| A Question of Pinstripes |
It’s been a while since we were talking about the possibility of baseball playoffs without the Yankees.
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Posted bydlengel on Friday, September 23, 2005 - 03:31 (2423 Reads)
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| We Interrupt This Baseball Website to Bring You...Cricket |
It’s Game Seven of the World Series. The summer is most definitely over — it’s a chilly eight degrees Celsius and rain is in the forecast. Every seat in Chicago’s Comisky Park is filled, and television viewers around the globe are tuned in to one of the most exciting duals in the history of the sport. Just nine innings separate the winners and losers of the Fall Classic. All pitchers for the White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals are available — they’ll have all winter to rest their tired and abused arms.
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Posted bydlengel on Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 08:56 (4856 Reads)
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| Sir Shandy |
What a waste. What a shame. Sidney Ponson is not only drinking his career away, but his life as well. There are two ways to break this down.
Sidney Ponson is a jerk…
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Posted bydlengel on Tuesday, September 06, 2005 - 01:39 (1705 Reads)
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| The Kids Are More Than Alright |
In baseball, the new boys have to pay their dues. Players drafted by Major League teams may get a nice signing bonus—but they just don’t waltz into the Bigs—with the pomp, circumstance, stretch limos, entourages etc.
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Posted bydlengel on Saturday, August 27, 2005 - 03:27 (993 Reads)
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| Congress Shmongress |
Take a look at this statement made on ESPN’s” Outside the Lines recently:
"At this point I think [the chances are] getting better and better because of baseball's inability to police their own players."
That comes from Congressional Representative Patrick McHenry, a Republican from North Carolina, who is alluding to the chances of US Congress getting involved in Major League Baseball’s steroids policy.
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Posted bydlengel on Thursday, August 11, 2005 - 12:07 (811 Reads)
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| Juicy Stuff |
I set out to write about the events (or lack there of) surrounding Sunday’s trade deadline. Then on Monday, we were hit with the type of news I’d prefer not to write about, but sadly there is little choice.
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Posted bydlengel on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - 03:57 (623 Reads)
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| A-list GM |
Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane is one of the more polarizing figures in baseball. Those who salute Beane are fans of what they believe to be an enterprising evaluation of the player market. His detractors cite his arrogance—his willingness to out the deficiencies of his colleagues wheeling and dealing. Those same critics find his commitment to the use of hard data in place of old school scouting methods both intolerable and misguided.
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Posted bydlengel on Thursday, April 21, 2005 - 04:34 (432 Reads)
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| Fall Fun |
Sure, you’re over 3000 miles away (trust me, I know the mileage) from the nearest stadium hosting playoff baseball. But that doesn’t mean you still can’t “catch the feeling.”
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Posted bydlengel on Saturday, October 09, 2004 - 02:43 (450 Reads)
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| It's Almost Over |
Tuesday night I was taken over by a mysterious force. It guided me down the subway steps, onto the 7 train, and into Shea Stadium.
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Posted bydlengel on Thursday, September 16, 2004 - 07:12 (3337 Reads)
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| Cheaters Often Win |
When the Cardinals’ Julian Tavarez was suspended 10 games this week for doctoring balls with a foreign substance, I found it hard to believe he couldn’t have found a better spot to hide his pine tar. A black, sticky substance on the brim of his hat? The guy was asking to get caught
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Posted bydlengel on Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 05:58 (396 Reads)
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| Tribe on the Rise |
After the Florida Marlins won their first World Series in 1997, they overhauled their lineup in an infamous purge of high-priced talent. The team the Marlins edged out in the 11th inning in Game 7 of that series was a loaded Cleveland Indians club, a squad that managed to make the playoffs the following two seasons, but have yet to return to the Series.
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Posted bydlengel on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 04:11 (254 Reads)
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| Not Amazin' |
For fans of the National Pastime, the post-trading deadline period can be an emotional one.
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Posted bydlengel on Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 06:25 (315 Reads)
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| Where's the Hype? |
Las Vegas is a city of stunning neon lights and ritzy casinos, long legged show girls and crazy circus acts. Yet from this wild gambling mecca in the middle of the desert comes a baseball player who hardly embodies the glitz and glamour of his hometown.
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Posted bydlengel on Friday, July 30, 2004 - 06:52 (252 Reads)
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| What's in Store? Part II |
Way back in April I picked the Red Sox to win it all. After last year’s melt down in Game 7 of the ALCS, they seemed primed to make 2004 their year. Sadly, only three and a half months later, the Yankees appear ready to wrap up the AL East in mid-August.
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Posted bydlengel on Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 03:04 (250 Reads)
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| What’s in Store? Part I |
There is only one thing that is certain when it comes to the remaining portion of the 2004 baseball season. Should there be a Game Seven of the World Series, it will be played in the American League’s stadium.
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Posted bydlengel on Friday, July 16, 2004 - 03:28 (261 Reads)
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| If I were Joe Torre and Jack McKeon my All-Star Lineups would be... |
American League
OF Ichiro: The only reason not to sleep in Seattle.
2B Alfonso Soriano: His arrival signaled a Texas revival.
C Ivan Rodriguez: His comeback has a sequel.
OF Vladimir Guerrero: Je me souvien.
OF Manny Ramirez: Planet Manny still the best in his universe.
3B Hank Blalock: A-Rod, you’re not a true 3B…yet.
1B David Ortiz: Where would Boston be without him?
SS Michael Young: Sorry Jeets, sit down and make way for the kid.
P Mark Mulder: Best of disappointing AL SP’s.
National League
SS Jack Wilson: Jack who? This Bucs for you!
2B Jeff Kent: Yes, Mr. Sunshine is a future Hall of Famer.
1B Jim Thome: Tough to pass up Albert, but Thome is a monster.
OF Barry Bonds: Intentional walks in the All-Star Game?
3B Scott Rolen: Best player in baseball right now.
C Mike Piazza: Come on, I get one Met right?
OF Sammy Sosa: Bless you.
OF Miguel Cabrera: Most kids think they know everything. He does.
P Jason Schmidt: He throws hot buttered popcorn.
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Posted bydlengel on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 03:07 (193 Reads)
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| All Aboard |
It’s all gassed up and on the road. The American press has never had a problem with kicking a team when they’re down, and the Boston and New York media are certainly no exceptions. So following the Yankees’ recent three game sweep of the Red Sox, the Boston bashing bandwagon got moving again for the first time since Red Sox Nation watched in horror as Grady Little left Pedro Martinez in too long in last seasons ALCS.
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Posted byhansenh on Friday, July 09, 2004 - 10:44 (220 Reads)
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| Fixing Interleague Play |
Once a season, for a period of close to a month, baseball’s interleague schedule brings us matchups we only dreamed of before its inception in 1997. Teams linked by geography but separated by league finally have the chance to play for bragging rights. I’ll never forget the Mets and Yankees very first interleague game. Mets pitcher Dave Mlicki shut out the Bombers 6-0, and Mets broadcaster Gary Cohen appropriately announced that the Mets had spray-painted their initials on the outfield walls of Yankee Stadium. It was a spine-tingling moment for Mets fans. Unfortunately, that remains the highlight of the Subway Series for the Amazins’.
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Posted byhansenh on Friday, July 02, 2004 - 12:36 (373 Reads)
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| D-saster |
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. You can put those who operate the Arizona Diamondbacks into this category.
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Posted byhansenh on Friday, June 04, 2004 - 11:24 (257 Reads)
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| Ad You Serious? - 07 May |
Holsten, Candy, NEC, Sharp, JVC, Virgin. Why have I mentioned these sponsors? Well, they are part of my earliest memories of watching what little football I had access to on American television back in 1990. Tottenham, Liverpool, Everton, Manchester United, Arsenal, Crystal Palace, and the rest of the Football League players all running around the pitch with sponsors names sewn into the front of their kits—you couldn’t miss them. In fact, if they weren’t there, I did. I used to think, what’s up with Barcelona? No sponsor? Is something wrong with them?
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Posted byhansenh on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 11:38 (259 Reads)
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| Marlin Madness |
Seriously folks-what a great job they’re doing over in Florida. Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, and president David Samson, are building up their franchise, laying down grass roots, ensuring the long-term prospects of the club.
If you don’t believe Americans are capable of emitting sarcasm, then read the above paragraph again.
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Posted byhansenh on Friday, April 30, 2004 - 09:00 (233 Reads)
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