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You thought I forgot. Go ahead, admit it. You noticed that we didn’t run a poll yesterday, and you thought that I’d forgotten about NL Manager of the Year.
Now, why would I do that?
Right, I wouldn’t. I also wouldn’t vote for anyone other than Clint Hurdle or Bob Melvin for this award. I suppose you could make a case for Charlie Manuel or Ned Yost, maybe Bud Black.
I kinda liked Willie Randolph before The Collapse (TM). Lou Piniella? Not so much for me. His bosses went out and bought the best team money could buy, and he barely managed to …read more

Ack, I’ve been slacking. Bad blogger, no cookie! Anyway, here are a few games I’ll be keeping an eye on today.
American League

Red Sox at Orioles, 4:05 p.m. PT – Curt Schilling faces Daniel Cabrera at Camden Yards. Since a poor showing on Opening Day, Schilling has pitched pretty well. Sure, he gave up five runs to the Yankees over the weekend, but have you looked at that lineup? On the other side, Cabrera has his walks down to a reasonable 2.39 per 9 innings so far. That’s down from the very ugly 6.32 he issued per 9 last year. The …read more

I know it’s early, but in the interest of accountability, I thought we should check in on our earlier predictions for the 2007 baseball season. Amazingly, a few of these have already happened.
Okay, would you believe one of these has happened? Yep, Mark McGwire wasn’t voted into the Hall of Fame. I’ll give myself partial credit for calling the Lou Piniella tirade. It didn’t go down quite the way I said it would, but the season is young — give him time.
Also, I have no way of verifying whether Daisuke Matsuzaka has become addicted to My Name Is Earl. But …read more