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Paul Ulane

Topps 2012: Pujols! Reyes! Squirrels? 16


Pitchers and catchers are only a few shorts weeks away from reporting to spring training, but the first whiff of the new baseball season is already here. The 2012 Topps Baseball Series 1 card set is invading a hobby shop near you and there are a lot of surprises this year, from golden tickets to rally squirrels.

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Gary Gramling

Verlander's MVP: Yay! The Voters Got it Right! 49


You might have heard that Tigers ace Justin Verlander was named the American League's Most Valuable Player, becoming the first starting pitcher in 25 years to win MVP.

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Gary Gramling

C'Mon Prince, Stay in Milwaukee (the Song!) 62


I know you Brewers fans are bummed out. You got knocked out of the playoffs by your hated rival Cardinals, who then went on to win it all. And even worse, superstar first baseman Prince Fielder is threatening to leave as a free agent!

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Paul Ulane

World Series? Where’s the Rest of the World? 22

  • Extras
  • Posted by: Paul Ulane
  • October 6, 2011, 12:10 PM

What if you gave a World Series and didn't invite the rest of the world? That would be rude, right? But that’s what happens every year when Major League Baseball hosts its annual World Series baseball championship: Only teams from North America are allowed to play.

What the heck is up with that?!

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MLB Playoff Picks: the Wiz vs. the Professor 19

  • Professor Ulane
  • Posted by: Gary Gramling, Paul Ulane
  • September 30, 2011, 12:46 PM

Baseball's regular season is 162 games long. Most playoff games start after 8:30 at night and stretch deep into the next morning. It all takes a whole lot of time. Me and the Wiz have decided to go in the other direction with our first-round baseball playoff preview - we are speeding things way up with our turbo guide to the first round. We were both assigned to sum up each series in one sentence...at least that's what was supposed to happen. Instead, the Wiz made his picks based on super in-depth analysis that went on forever and almost put me to sleep. In any case, keep reading to see who we picked and then make your own predictions in the comments below! 

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Gary Gramling

What's So Great About 602 Saves? 3


Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Mariano Rivera is great. Amazing. Wonderful. A sure-fire first-ballot Hall of Famer. If time-traveling martians came to Earth and challenged the human race to a baseball game with world domination on the line, and we could choose any human being in the history of the universe to be the closer for the human team, it would undoubtedly be Mariano Rivera.

What I'm saying is Rivera is incredible. Get it? Got it? Good.

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Paul Ulane

Hey Yankees and Red Sox: HURRY UP!!! 36


Listen people: I love sports and I love watching sports. I’ll sit down and watch everything from baseball to bocce ball. If there’s a heated competition going on between two opponents, it’s worth watching. And nothing makes big games more thrilling than a brutal battle between two heated division rivals.

Which is why I’m as shocked as you are with what I’m about to say. But here it goes…

The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry has GOT to change.

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