SB Nation User Blog: jplata

Grmisley....Clemens/Pettite....geez

jplata — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:02:00 -0000

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-clemens1oct01,0,6499528.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Roger Clemens, one of professional baseball's most durable and successful pitchers, is among six players allegedly linked to performance-enhancing drugs by a former teammate, The Times has learned. The names had been blacked out in an affidavit filed in federal court.

Others whose identities had been concealed include Clemens' fellow Houston Astros pitcher Andy Pettitte and former American League most valuable player Miguel Tejada of the Baltimore Orioles. MLB too: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061001&content_id=1693016&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

"Free the Birds" -- "Fire Buck"?

jplata — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:21:37 -0000

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2597721

"Nearly a thousand disgruntled Orioles fans walked out of Baltimore's game against Detroit en masse on Thursday, culminating a demonstration aimed at team owner Peter Angelos."

TBIA lets organize a movement.

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One reason to have Buck....

jplata — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:31:52 -0000

http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060809&content_id=1601067&vke y=news_tex&fext=.jsp&c_id=tex

He was manager of the Yankees in 1995, and their season looked bleak as late as Aug. 26. At that point, they had lost 10 of 12, leaving them with a record of 53-58 with 33 games left in the strike-shortened season.

They were 15 1/2 games behind the Red Sox in the American League East and had five teams in front of them in the Wild Card race. The Rangers actually led at that point at 59-53, leaving the Yankees 5 1/2 back in that race.

Yet, history shows the Yankees won 26 of their last 33 games and won the Wild Card, making their first postseason appearance in 14 years.