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One man's quest to make the ESPN Featured Comment of the Day. [Featured Comment Quest]

It's been a while since we've seen Mark McGwire. Wait ... was that him at that Obama rally yesterday? OK, no, that wasn't him. But admit it: You wouldn't be surprised if he looked like this now.

unwritten rules

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Enough, Already, With The "Unwritten Rules" Of Baseball

unwritten rules

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Goose Gossage says you can't show joy when you do something positive. You can't bunt to end a no-hitter. If their guy throws even close to your guy, you have to throw closer to his guy. In the fourth inning, everyone has to do an Indonesian Dance Of Skulls before tapping his left ear twice. These "unwritten rules" of…

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Manny Ramirez

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Ah, Manny, Manny, Manny

Manny Ramirez

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From today's Orioles-Red Sox game: If there has ever been a more definitive Manny Ramirez moment in his career, we can't think of one.

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purple prose

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The Briny Ballers Achieve A Left-Columner

purple prose

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Slate's Robert Weintraub, like many of us, loves the old purple prose of early 1900s sportswriting, the Grantland Rices, the men who painted epic tales of warriors, grizzled combatants and lardywarks too manly to wear gloves. In an occasional series, Weintraub writes about the week's best baseball game in the style of…

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eight belles

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Crazy Artist Guy Combines Michael Vick And Another Horse

eight belles

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You might remember last year, when a talented artist combined Michael Vick and Barbaro, causing us to spontaneously combust. Well, that artist is back, this time honoring the "great" Eight Belles.

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Expansion

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Baseball's Flourishing Again ... Let's Expand!

Expansion

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The notion of "contraction," back when Major League Baseball was going to eliminate the Expos, the Twins, both, neither, somebody, seems kind of quaint now. MLB is raking in cash, and pretty much every team at least has the ability to compete. The Marlins and the Rays are in first, the Yankees are almost in last, and…

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Blogdome

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Hillary And The BCS

Blogdome

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• How the Democratic National Committee is like the BCS. [Smoking Trees In Belize]
• Global warming is now affecting NFL training camps. [selfish teams]
• Eddie Guardado lives! [Rumors And Rants]
• This is quite a kind gift. [The Beautiful Game]
• What's wrong with the NBA playoffs. [Focus Balance, Trap Often]
• Ah,…

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Utah Jazz

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The Jazz Have Some Truly Charming Fans

Utah Jazz

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Last month, ESPN's Ric Bucher took some heat for saying that Jazz fans are vicious because they're Mormons and there's nothing else to do in Salt Lake City. That might or might not be true, but one thing is certain: They really are quite vicious.