Post-game show transcript from June 19, 2008, on the FAN590, home of the Toronto Blue Jays, featuring special guest J.P. Ricciardi

Mike Wilmer (Host): Welcome back to The FAN590, I’m your host Mike Wilmer. Another tough loss for the Blue Jays tonight, as they fall 8-7 to the Milwaukee Brewers here in Milwaukee. A.J. Burnett was roughed up for eight runs, former Jay David Bush carried a no-hitter into the seventh, but the Blue Jays came […]

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I Knew It All Along, Byotches: Vol. 693

Dag, y’all, has this been a boring baseball season so far or what? Everything is falling into place, just as I thought it would. Utley and Hamilton, leading their leagues in tacos largos? CALLED IT, knew it, locked ’em both up with my first two picks in every league. Cliff Lee, best pitcher in the […]

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Yo No Soy Marinero: Los Seattles en el ano 2008

Holas y muy besos to you, readers of El Yard-Work.org! It is I, your internacional ambassadoress of beisbol, pop music, y the grande Bolivar-ish revolución del Húgo Chavez! Excuse of me to you for not so much writing on this e-weblog. But it is hard work being the public beautiful face of the new Venezuela. […]

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The Duck, It Is Snorting

Don’t let the tricky title fool you. Yes, it’s another edition of DUCK SNORTS! I’m ready if you are. Let’s do this thing, people! CUBS HAVE HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH PIE: The Chicago Cubs, finding themselves locked into a struggle for first place in the NL Central with the St. Louis Cardinals (who are totally […]

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2008 Season Preview: Oakland A’s

Today, Yard Work will step aside and introduce today’s Season Preview post from longtime A’s manager Connie Mack with an anecdote from Mack’s Wikipedia page: “Once, when [Mack] visited the mound to remove the notoriously hot-tempered [Lefty] Grove from a game, Grove said, ‘Go take a shit,’ when Mack held out his hand for the […]

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2008 Season Preview: San Diego Padres

What, you think the Yard Work 2008 Season Preview shriveled up and died like the site usually does between May and August? Shut up! For the San Diego Padres’ preview, we took a big flying leap and reached out to one of our favorite rock stars, golden god Scott Weiland! And he reached back! Like, […]

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The Broken American Baseball Player

I’ve always loved baseball. The crack of the bat. The cheer of the crowd. The intoxicating power of the game’s biggest stars. As a child getting pummeled by bullies in Miami after my parents went through a scarring divorce, the daily boxscores were all I had to hold on to to keep my life from […]

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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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