Saturday links

They’ve gone through physical training.  They’ve fine-tuned their hitting, pitching and fielding skills.  Now, MLB rookies must go through a special class to  “prepare them for life under the lights: how to live with the attention”. 

In other words, don’t post incriminating photos on the Facebook and Twitter, rubes.

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A few years ago, it was hard to get any info at all on winter league action.  Not so much anymore.  Teams are getting ready for the Caribbean Series.

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bi The Pirates unveiled a statue of Bill Mazeroski at PNC.  Word has it, Maz was pretty teary-eyed at the event.  The statue depicts him hitting his famous homerun against the Yankees in the 1960 World Series.  I’m not a Pirate fan but I’d rather have it showing his fielding prowess.  Your thoughts?

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On a personal note, tomorrow is my big day at the Kiwanis Sports Trivia Championship.  My friend Shawn and I are team are teaming up to hopefully going to show our sports trivia prowess (or embarrass ourselves trying).  Wish us luck!

2 thoughts on “Saturday links”

  1. That home run is the ONLY reason he’s in the HOF. There have been alot of slick fielding secondbasemen.

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