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Article Archive for April 2007

Steinbrenner speaks
April 30, 2007 – 7:37 pm | No Comment

You didn’t expect him to stay quiet for long, did you? George Steinbrenner has released one of his legendary statements in support of the Yankees’ management which will no doubt bring all speculation …

Slim pickings again
April 30, 2007 – 7:05 am | No Comment

This week’s choice of games on MLB.TV for British fans wanting to catch some live baseball in the evening (all times BST). Unfortunately it looks like another week to catch up on some archived games.

Josh Hancock R.I.P.
April 29, 2007 – 5:21 pm | No Comment

I just logged-on to MLB.com to check some facts for a post I’m writing when I saw the tragic news that Josh Hancock, the St Louis reliever, has been killed in a car crash. …

2007 – Week 4
April 29, 2007 – 1:50 pm | No Comment

A standard week in MLB, with heroes and zeroes, success and failure, and a bit of comedy thrown in for good measure. Trevor Hoffman accounted for more of it than he would have liked, …

Blood and Baltimore broadcasters
April 26, 2007 – 10:00 pm | No Comment

Any Brit who thinks baseball is any easy, non-contact sport should try catching a Zack Greinke fastball in their mouth. Torii Hunter gave it a go today and ended up with a bloody lip …

This week’s live games
April 23, 2007 – 6:02 pm | 5 Comments

Apart from the normal clutch of Thursday day games, it’s fairly slim pickings this week when it comes to live games being played during the evening British time. Here is my pick of the best …

Week 3
April 22, 2007 – 4:04 pm | No Comment

Weekly hit ground ball always tries to look at the funnier side of the game and this week there has been plenty of topics to choose from. Week three was the week of Pizza …

Injuries and my fantasy team
April 19, 2007 – 8:26 pm | 3 Comments

Fantasy baseball has the ability to divide fans of the sport simply because it makes you look at the game in a completely different way. Injuries are a good case in point.

Heading to the DL?
April 17, 2007 – 8:43 pm | No Comment

While we would love to see the players on the field making all of the headlines, the recent rush of players on to the disabled list has been the main news over the past week …

Live baseball this week
April 16, 2007 – 7:35 am | 3 Comments

One of the many little things I’m adding to this site is a weekly highlights schedule of live matches to watch in the evening over here in GB. Once again, apologies to those of you …