2008 Season Preview: New York Mets

It’s never too late for another 2008 Season Preview from your favorite baseball weblog, especially when the preview concerns the New York Mets, and extra-especially when it’s written by longtime Yard Work commentator (and former Mets player / coach) Rickey Henderson! Get paid with Met knowledge! Man, all Rickey has to say about those toilet […]

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You Know Me Alan

ALAN: It was nice to see you when I went home last month even though it was a sad time with my dad being sick and everything. I hope every thing is cool with you guys at the Lincoln Maintenance Department. I still say it was the best job I ever had! You guys are […]

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Late April Duck Snorts

I bet you didn’t realize that it’s time for another back of DUCK SNORTS. On behalf of those of us at Yard Work, I have to apologize for our sporadic posting schedule of late — I guess we were caught up in the fervor of baseball’s first month like the rest of baseball was! But […]

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2008 Season Preview: Washington Nationals

Greetings, fellow liberty seekers. As you know, this year the baseball team of our nation’s capital finally gets its own stadium. The Washington Nationals will no longer be subservient to the whims of big government and the corporate greed of Major League Baseball. In 2008, as a prime signifier of the coming rise of the […]

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2008 Season Preview: Detroit Tigers

Detroit’s poor opening week seems to have strongly influenced Iggy Pop’s prognosis for the season that lies ahead. Read on for his full analysis of the team. I’m cranky and I’m tired, and the Tigers are stinking up the joint at 0-6, ain’t got no fix ’cause Brandon Inge is a rich bitch. They’re uninspired, […]

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Where Is The Love For … RIGHT MAKING DECISIONS?

Again, I bid top dollar to you with my greetings! Yes, once and always, it has been a long series of moons since I shined my peculiar light on subjects for this varied website. Let me not recount how much less than zero my lump of a baseball playing career has summed into, and instead […]

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“The Audacity of Nate McLouth”

We break format in our Hugo- and Nebula-Award-winning 2008 Season Preview to reprint a recent speech from Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, which seemed to be a pretty good Pittsburgh Pirates preview to us. We here present this speech excerpt, delivered last Thursday in Erie, Pennsylvania, with special permission from the Obama campaign. Thanks, […]

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2008 Season Preview: New York Yankees

Opening Day’s come and gone, but Yard Work’s 2008 Season Preview keeps limping along! Today we hear from another presidential nominee, Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, as she holds court on her hometown team, the New York Yankees. Just as it has been my honor to serve as a Senator to the greatest state in these […]

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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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