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Jumping Someone Else’s Train: Your 2009 NLCS and ALCS Previews

With most of the reprehensible teams out of the picture, the 35th Street Review hitches its star to another city’s wagons.

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Things We Know About This Weekend’s Series in Los Angeles of Anaheim

A trilogy of facts and postulations regarding some impending C-list baseball and follies.

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Faking It

Matt McCarthy made some stuff up about baseball. Why? And who’s Matt McCarthy?

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Rescheduler

How to solve the ills of baseball scheduling? Take a cue from that other, more successful pro sports league. Concept baseball takes a small leap forward.

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Bold Predictions: A Non-Vote of Confidence

What we talk about when we talk about Non-Sox playoff series:
Cubs/Dodgers: If the Sox win (more on that tomorrow), may the Cubs win as well; if not, well, it will at least be kind of fun to watch Carlos Zambrano murder one (or many!) of his teammates on national television. Whatever. Prediction: Cubs in 4 OR Dodgers [...]

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Bold Predictions: Combat Evolved Edition

[Editor's note: This was prepared before today's news became public. Oh, irony!]
Three things to watch for as two likely playoff teams enter the Octagon this weekend:
The ressurection of White Sox offense. If Paul Konerko and Jim Thome continue to hit, the 3-6 of Carlos Quentin, Jim Thome, Jermaine Dye, and Konerko could be more than enough to put the [...]

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Does Mark Teixeira Make the Halos the New Favorite?

Yes. Duh.
Going into this season, your editor predicted the Boston Red Sox as AL Champs, but with the Angels’ acquisition of the artist formerly known as Paul Konerko’s switch-hitting twin it may be time to reconsider things. The Angels already had the most well-rounded team and the largest divisional lead in ALL OF BASEBALL without [...]

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A Long November

This would be a disheartening winter if not for the fact that it’s still only fall.

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Live Blogging the Garland/Cabrera Trade News, Ramifications and One Fan’s Illogical Train of Half-Informed Thought

The ups and downs of having stupid, distant ideas as seen through one small-time sportswriter’s eyes.

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