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Time To Dust Off The MLB Record Books
I was 8 years old during the great home run chase of 1998. I recall night after night, tuning in to watch Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire stroke pitch after pitch over the fence. They […]
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Rapture – From Bundesliga To Hopefully The Return Of MLB
Allow me to preface this forthcoming anecdote, and its conclusions, by first acknowledging there are far more compelling news and story lines dominating the sports universe this week. That being said, and please stay with […]
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A Proposal To MLB So Crazy It Just Might Work
Welcome to another installment of Steven’s nonsensical sports ideas.™ Here is today’s nonsensical topic: What if baseball didn’t play in leap years? This idea stemmed from an accidental joke between me and my mom the […]
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Simulated Summer Has Arrived For The Simulated Seattle Mariners
In seasons past, the Memorial Day Weekend would’ve signaled the symbolic arrival of summer and the point where the baseball season was getting ready to heat up. With a little over a third of the […]
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Powder Blue-Hoo – The Recent MLB Trend That Will Make You Want To Cry
First and foremost I would like to apologize for what I am about to type. The Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, and Minnesota Twins are all bringing back powder blue uniforms in 2020. It is […]
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How The Latest MLB Season Proposal Could Benefit The Seattle Mariners
Back before COVID-19 shut down all of professional sports, various projection models placed the Seattle Mariners’ win total, based on an 162-game schedule, in the high 70’s, with a finish in the cellar of the […]
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Murphy’s Law Of Sports – Seattle Edition
What Went Wrong? In sports, things rarely ever turn out how you would think. Upsets stimulate the hearts and minds of fans, leading to unexpected jubilation or dumbfounding despair. The city of Seattle has had […]
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The 2020 Seattle Mariners – Theoretical Baseball In A Pandemic
Let’s begin by saying this: I possess a deep love of baseball, but of all the 70,000 (and rapidly rising) reasons why I wish the coronavirus pandemic didn’t exist, being able to watch an MLB […]
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The Seattle Mariners Are Exceeding Expectations – In A Simulation
With the MLB season in limbo from uncertainties surrounding the coronavirus, the good folks at Baseball Reference have attempted to fill the void. Using the baseball management game “Out of the Park” (OOTP), the site […]
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Take Me Out To The Ballgame – MLB Meditations If You’re Missing Baseball
I miss baseball. I miss the sounds of the game: vendors selling beer, the crisp echo of batting practice, the constant hum of a packed stadium. I miss the smells of baseball: slightly wet grass, […]