Here are some baseball thoughts to ponder for the middle of August.
 
1.  Are the Tampa Bay Rays still for real?  They appear to be! The Red Sox and Yankees both made blockbuster trades. But Tampa is still hanging around and in first place in the American League East. They don’t appear to be fading. What [...]

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Whew, time to catch a breath and re-evaluate Major League Baseball. Last week’s activity before the end of the trading deadline was of historic proportions. Three future Hall of Fame stars changed teams, including Ken Griffey, Jr of the Cincinnati Reds, controversial superstar Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox and catcher Ivan Rodriguez of [...]

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If Major League Baseball were the stock market, one might consider the teams whose stock seems to be rising in the final two months of the season.
 
BOSTON RED SOX – The Red Sox are the best and most complete team in baseball and they have been all season. They are getting even healthier with the [...]

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Last week, Yankee Stadium was the site of the Major League All-Star Game. Everywhere you looked there was a tribute to the stadium. But if you looked closely, you might have seen the grand old lady shed a tear from her steel beams. Last week, Yankee Stadium also lost one of her favorite people, former [...]

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The second half of the baseball season is now officially underway. But many players and fans are still rubbing their eyes and catching their breath from last Tuesday’s classic All-Star game in Yankee Stadium. It was the longest All-Star game in history in terms of length of time. It rivaled the 1967 Mid-Summer Classic in [...]

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