Third Base Coach’s Bleep

Since the sports world can’t seem to get enough about how stupid all these dumb-ss coaching regulations are, allow me to do what these so-called journalists can’t seem to do and tell it to you straight, L-Bow style. That’s right, ladies. BLEEP BLEEP is back, La-La Land style. And unlike that soft-tossing gimp Pedro, I […]

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Opening Day Duck Snorts

Hello again, Yard Work readers! Hope you’re having a great and prank-free April Fool’s Day. Now that Opening Day has finally arrived for the third time this season, it’s time for DUCK SNORTS to look at the previous day’s action and see what stories are developing across the Major League Baseball landscape. Let’s get it […]

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2008 Season Preview: Philadelphia Phillies

Like sands through the hourglass, if the hourglass was full of water, so goes the 2008 Yard Work Season Preview. Today’s installment concerns the Philadelphia Phillies, and is penned by AM radio drive-time personality (and Emmy Award winner) Howard Eskin. Ah, Phillies baseball. Like watching retards trying to snap their fingers. Seriously, folks, if you […]

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A President, Resigned*

This is the 1st time I have spoken to you, the fans of baseball, since I have resigned my post as president of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Unlike President Richard Nixon, who was afforded the comfort of addressing the nation from the Oval Office one final time before his untimely departure, I am penning […]

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2008 Season Preview: Chicago White Sox

Yard Work’s glorious 2008 Season Preview is just about half-way done! And just in time for the end of Spring Training, too! Today’s installment comes from one of this site’s favorite go-to guys, and the only man in baseball history to fire both Tony LaRussa and Dave Dombrowski, Chicago White Sox broadcaster Ken “Hawk” Harrelson. […]

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This Time It Always Counts

Hello baseball fans! I can’t believe it’s almost time for the season to start again! It feels like it was just last October that I was in Colorado watching the Red Sox win another World Series, and it was. But now it’s Spring Training time, and this has to be my most favorite time of […]

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Duck Snorts

This is David Smithson Michaels, welcoming you back to another edition of DUCK SNORTS. It looks like Spring Training is getting close to the end, and Opening Day is only a few more weeks away. As players compete for those final roster spots, and managers work on their lineups, here’s what’s been happening in baseball […]

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2008 Season Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers

The Yard Work 2008 Season Preview cannot be stopped! Until it’s finished! Shake and bake! Today’s preview features hard-hitting Los Angeles Times columnist T.J. Simers talking about the Los Angeles Dodgers with his Times colleague, Bill Plaschke. Bill Plaschke has written for the LA Times for over twenty years, twelve of those as a sports […]

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2008 Season Preview: Cincinnati Reds

The train keeps a-rollin’ here at the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview! Today we present to you the Cincinnati Reds, courtesy of America’s favorite bat-boy, Darren Baker. Hello my name is Darren Baker and my dad is famous World Series and Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker but he is now in the Reds who are […]

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2008 Season Preview: Boston Red Sox

In 2004, best-selling authors Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan teamed up to write Faithful, a day-by-day account of the Boston Red Sox championship season as experienced through the eyes of two diehard fans. Now that Boston has once again climbed to the summit of their sport, we here at Yard Work are proud to re-team […]

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