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Vote for Pat Burrell in the Final Vote for the All Star Game!

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This is from the encore showing of the Euro 2008 Portugal v Turkey match on ESPN2HD, which I recorded because I don’t get ESPN Classic where the game originally aired.  I purposely avoided checking scores online this morning so I could enjoy the game.  ESPN, though, decided it was OK to show the final score on the ticker only :26 [...]

Over the past year or so I’ve started to really get into MLS soccer.  The Beckham craze certainly helped spark my interest, as well as the announcement of a Philly expansion team in 2010.  But the main reason I watch MLS is because it’s really the only soccer I get on TV this time of [...]

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Forget the Yanks and Sox, the new hot rivalry in baseball… no, in all sports… has to be the Phillies and the Mets.  There has always been some animosity between the two teams, being division rivals from two neighboring cities.  The New York Mets, backed by the greatest city in the world, but still treated as [...]

I know I’m biased, but Jimmy Rollins HAS to be the NL MVP this year.  If his performance in yesterday’s final, playoff-clinching game was not enough…  a single, an RBI triple, 2 steals, 2 runs…  consider this.  Rollins is only the fourth player in MLB history to join the 20-20-20-20 club, meaning he has eclipsed 20 doubles, 20 [...]

Dear Charlie Manuel,
Can we please just admit that Tom Gordon is washed up?  Can we stop putting him into games in the 8th inning and letting him blow huge leads?  I mean, I realize the bullpen is hurting for talent right now, but come on…  Gordon is bringing them all down.  Put him into the game [...]