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So, the next few days will be chock full of end-of-year retrospectives. We'll do our own as well. Today: Road beef, etc. More »
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So, this seems like it could be a regular feature. Deadspin received a tip this weekend about pictures circulating on one Keri Wiesen's Facebook page (public to those in the Chicago network), which features this fleshy young lady in various friendly poses with the Chicago Cubs' (Central division champs! Hooray!) Alfonso Soriano. Ms. Wiesen seems to be a little torn in her loyalties, however, because one of the photos on her profile shows her wearing a Chicago White Sox jersey. Was Carlos Quentin not interested? More »
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For all of those who thought that fate had given the Cubs a pass this season; for all who doubted The Curse and figured that 100 years of futility were enough, well, think again, Mojambo. Take a look at your roster tomorrow and notice that heaping helping of Micah Hoffpauir, where Alfonso Soriano should be. What in the world did the Cubs do to piss off God this badly? Holy crap. More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5015763&view=rss&microfeed=true 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 the vaunted sportswriters of yesteryear. This week: The Cubs' tought loss to the Pirates on Sunday. More »
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You know the Cubs are competitors this year because their fans are getting ornery. And the target of their orneriness has been Alfonso Soriano, who plays left field as if he's crossing ice with eels as slippers. But the Cubs organization has had just about enough of fans' darned negativity. More »
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Say what you will about the Chicago Cubs, but they aren't letting a little thing like an impending sale stand in the way of paying a ridiculous amount for a big name. In a move that should put those A-Rod rumors to the crematorium, the Cubs signed Alfonso Soriano to an eight-year, $136 million deal. That's eight years; Soriano will be thirty-freaking-eight when the contract ends, and we mean no offense here, but Soriano doesn't exactly strike us as the type of guy who's going to be a great player when he's 38. (Many non-Cubs fans agree.) More »
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Forty. Forty. Forty. There was a time in the not-too-distant past when seeing that word three times in a row would mean that I had 120 ounces of this garbage coursing through my veins. Today, however, it represents the remarkable accomplishment of Alfonso Soriano, becoming the first ever member of the 40/40/40 Club. More »
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So the big story of yesterday's trade deadline, as tends to be the case, turned out to be what not happened: Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden hung on to impending free agent Alfonso Soriano rather than flipping for prospects, or cash, or beans, or whatever. Because the Natinoals aren't going anywhere this season, many felt it was only logical for Bowden to send him off. Bowden disagreed. More »
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Alfonso Soriano might suck at being a left fielder, but if you're at a Nationals game, and sitting in foul territory with a woman who hasn't had a proper screening for ovarian cancer, there's no one else you'd rather have at the plate. More »
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Well, it appears that Alfonso Soriano has agreed to play left field for the Nationals in spring training and is, in fact, playing the position right now, against the Cardinals. It "ends" a "standoff" that would be the sports world equivalent of Waco if, you know, Frank Robinson had set fire to Soriano at the end of it. More »
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The moment of truth finally came for Alfonso Soriano and the Washington Nationals yesterday ... and everybody lost. More »
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