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I just came across a fun baseball fact you may already know, but if not, you'll want to share like I did. Today is Jackie Robinson Day throughout MLB, and every player, coach, manager, and umpire will be wearing No. 42. However, the only MLB player actually wearing 42 on his regulation uniform is the Yankees' Mariano Rivera. The number was retired in 1997 by all teams, but players who wore it at ...

So the Johnny Damon-Scott Boras good cop-bad cop feature film is over at last. "The Goodbye Boy Part 5" that played in newspapers, blogs and radio talk shows everywhere has finally come to the end of its run in Detroit. Was it an epic saga? A melodrama? A romance? A buddy flick? A little of each probably, but mostly it was a broad farce, and with a surprise ending coming that only ...

I'm no expert. But I know this time next year, Joe Mauer will be a Yankee. For all the warm and fuzzy commentary about Joe Mauer needing to remain a Minnesota Twin for the sake of preserving the hopes of small-market teams everywhere, there is an underlying ominous implication that if he doesn't he will be branded baseball's all-time biggest sellout and eviscerated by pure-hearted baseball fans everywhere. The arguments for why ...

The Joba Chamberlain-Phil Hughes beauty contest now playing out in the media and sports blogs everywhere is as fine a sham reality show as has ever been produced anywhere on network television. In the end, when the pre-scripted outcome is revealed, everyone who has voiced an opinion or weighed in on it will be forced to tip their cap to this magnificent charade concocted by Joe Girardi and his staff, ...