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Mar.08.2013
It’s Friday and that means baseball! AthleticsNation’s Alex Hall uses Sabermetric formulas XFIP and FIP to determine which Oakland A’s relief pitchers will have the best season as well as speculates which relievers will be on the opening day roster. Knuckleballs Blog EricPleiss...
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Dec.21.2012
On the 300th episode of the Phil Naessens Show Phil is joined by Mark Berman for the Weekly New York Mets Report, Eric Stephen for the Weekly Los Angeles Dodger Report, Eric Pleiss for the Weekly Minnesota Twins Report and Alex Hall for the Weekly Oakland A'...
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Dec.14.2012
It's Hot Stove Baseball on Fridays Phil Naessens Show. Joining Phil for the weekly Los Angeles Dodger report is Eric Stephen, Eric Pleiss stops by for the weekly Minnesota Twins report, Alex Hall joins Phil for the weekly Oakland A's report and Mark Berman joins...
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Nov.29.2012
Thursdays Phil Naessens Show is a repeat of two great interviews he conducted during this past year with author Steven R. Travers. Please listen as Travers discusses his latest book A Tale of Three Cities followed by a discussion of his book The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times...
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Aug.23.2012
A journeyman is defined as "someone who works competently but not brilliantly." Such a description captures the career of new Dodger catcher Chad Kreuter, who was told by manager Davey Johnson that he would work day games after night games, but has seen seen much more action that that.
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Aug.14.2012
Tonight joining Phil are the Sports Goons Jameyan Smith to talk Atlanta Braves Baseball as well as the rest of the National League East, True Blue LA's Eric Stephen is here to talk Los Angeles Dodger baseball as well as the rest of the National League West and Pitcher's Hit Eighth's Dennis Lawson...
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Jun.14.2012
Frank Worth was considered the photographer-to-the-stars during Hollywood’s Golden Age. His most famous shot was of Marilyn Monroe standing on a subway grate during the filming of The Seven Year Itch. Her dress billowing upward defined a generation. He snapped candid pictures of his...
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Nov.21.2009
“THE YEAR OF THE PITCHER”
After Koufax retired in the fall of 1966, little was expected of the Dodgers, and that was what they delivered. They were mediocre in 1967 and not much better in 1968. In 1969 they contended in the “Wild, Wild West,” the new division format that was exciting because,...
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Oct.19.2009
Death struggle
"Man, that's what we're playing the season to find out."
- Willie Mays, when asked who would win the 1962 pennant
When Spring Training broke up, the Dodgers boarded their team plane for the flight west. They stopped for exhibitions in Las Vegas and San Diego. On April...
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Oct.18.2009
SOME SPANISH LINGO
Baseball's association with Latin America goes back to the turn of the century. The expanding American Empire propped up so-called "banana republics" and brought baseball to those lands, but it was the Negro Leagues that truly popularized the game south of the border...
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