Between my overtime hours at The Sun in the lead-up to the Olympics, and Jeremy’s world travels, we’re more than aware that things are running a little behind at NFTN right now. 
Gimme 24 hours and we’ll be back to speed. Got a few unedited game reports, and perhaps even some inside info on which player […]

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When you’re five runs down before you even swing a bat, the tendency for many baseball teams would be to take your foot off the gas and ride it out. So if there’s a positive to come from yet another Ryne Tacker pitching implosion last night, it would be that the C’s didn’t give up, […]

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Don’t you hate those days when you go to a ballgame, all excited that your team is going to do really well, and then they get beat up by their opponents early in the game so you have to sit there for nine innings thinking ‘well, hopefully I’ll see a homerun… or someone has a […]

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Enjoying a little family vacation, so no game reports for another 24-48 hrs.
Sorry, folks, but I’ll get back to it first thing.
Go C’s.

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In the glory days of the Harlem Globe Trotters, the famous basketball team would travel the world putting on a show, night after night, in which they’d absolutely dominate their opponents with tricks and ploys and comedy routines designed to embarrass and humiliate the other team for the giggles of the crowd.
But in order to […]

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When you go 2-3 with two triples and two runs scored, with a walk and an RBI, you’d hope you’re the player of the game.
But what if someone else goes 4-5 with a double, a run scored, and two RBI’s…? Then what?

And what if you’re doing this on the road, in someone other team’s […]

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Good form is such a perilous thing. You hit a couple of dingers one night, the next night you think you’re The Incredible Hulk after a night on Barry Bonds’ horse steroids, and it all goes to heck.
Such is life for Jason Christian, who responded to my suggestion he’d make a good #2 hitter by […]

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