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Experience The Fun Of Minnesota's U.S. Senate Election Recount With The St. Paul Saints

Here's comedian and senatorial candidate Al Franken throwing out the first pitch at a St. Paul Saints game earlier this season. It was a wise move on Mr. Franken's part, considering that the Saints' attendance that day was 12,450, and he's currently trailing in his U.S. Senate recount with Norm Coleman by only 136 votes. This appearance may have won him the election. At any rate, the Saints are proudly mocking the situation with their first promotional giveaway of the season: The Franken-Coleman Recount Doll (as seen below). More »

1:15 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Rick Chandler
4,227 views, 58 comments

Most discussed FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns: In this morning's Star-Tribune: The caption reads "how would you rule"? Me? I'd rule that the voter in question more »

MLB

Jim Leyritz Will Soldier On Somehow

You no doubt recall the legal trouble facing Jim Leyritz, the former Yankee who is free on bail pending his DUI manslaughter trial. Leyritz is accused of being involved in an accident while driving drunk, in which a young mother was killed. Well, last week Leyritz asked a judge to remove a Breathalyzer device from his car because it was "bothersome." More »

11:30 AM on Tue Nov 18 2008
By Rick Chandler
8,804 views, 62 comments

Most discussed One Sack, Two Sack: He should just blow up a couple of balloons before he goes out, keep them in the back seat, and more »

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Meet The Only Professional Pitcher Who Has Seen 'High School Musical' Eight Times

I don't know; the whole thing sounds a little sketchy to me. But let's take it from the top: Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, has been drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise, a new independent Japanese professional league based in Tokyo. It will be the first time that a chick of the female persuasion will play professional ball with the men in Japan. Also, the unfortunate arrangement of nouns and verbs on this site also makes it sound like the Red Sox, Yankees and Tigers (!) are interested in her. Not likely. Now if you would have said Giants or Padres ... More »

1:00 PM on Mon Nov 17 2008
By Rick Chandler
3,244 views, 44 comments

Most discussed ClueHeywood: Finally, the Ninja BlackSox have an answer to the Lovely Ladies. more »

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Lenny Dykstra's Financial Acumen Called Into Question (Again)

Did that Lenny "Wally Wall Street" Dykstra story from yesterday seem a little fishy? (And familiar?) Well yes, his troubles with a few of his business partners have been well documented, but those were just friendly disagreements over strategy and don't really change the fact that the guy is filthy rich from playing the stock market. Surely, his perfect record of winning choices will hold up under greater scrutiny right? Well, Adam Warner of Daily Options Reports wrote to us to share some thoughts about that: More »

11:30 AM on Fri Nov 14 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
8,581 views, 48 comments

Most discussed UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen: When Lenny Dykstra talks, people have no clue what he is saying. more »

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Lenny Dykstra For Secretary Of The Treasury

It goes without saying that now is not a particularly strong time to be in the stock market. I believe the entire NASDAQ exchange can be had for approximately $42 and a sandwich, but buying it somehow starts foreclosure proceedings on your home. (Finance is complicated.) There is one man, however, who is not afraid to take the bull by the horns and make Gordon Gekko look like a day trader playing with tooth fairy money. Meet your new broker—Mr. Leonard Kyle Dykstra. More »

5:30 PM on Thu Nov 13 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
7,011 views, 27 comments

Most discussed Chuck Knoblockhead: Didn't we already go over this? I'm starting to feel like Darren Daulton. more »

baseball

1. Get Hit In Groin With Baseball, 2. Scream In Agony, 3. Profit

We now know the going rate for volunteering to be hit in the nuts by a pitching machine baseball: 1 million bucks. Not that Lhyvann Felipe volunteered, exactly. The unfortunate fellow, who was nailed in a batting cage while picking up baseballs, was awarded $1.2 million last week by a Miami jury consisting of five women and seven nervous, fidgeting, cross-legged men. More »

12:20 PM on Wed Nov 12 2008
By Rick Chandler
7,119 views, 12 comments

Most discussed Candace Parker Secret Lover: It's a shame that Hans Moleman never got to profit... more »

mlb

Diamondbacks Lay Off Dozens of Employees (Not Including Adam Dunn)

The purge of off-field employees has started in earnest this Credit Crunch offseason, with the Arizona Diamondbacks releasing 31 employees (around 10% of the entire front office), mostly from the broadcast side of the business as a result of selling all their games to Fox Sports Arizona. Yet again, the tight economy has been given as the reason for the cuts. More »

4:35 PM on Sun Nov 9 2008
By Tuffy
2,518 views, 7 comments

Most discussed Philistine: I understood the President-elect was going to do something to prevent this kind of tragedy. more »

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Beckett, Lester Take Aim at Charity (and Pull Trigger)

Josh Beckett, putative Red Sox ace, believes the best charity comes at the end of a shotgun. Therefore, he has gathered all his rowdy friends (including fellow hurler Jon Lester-Who-Once-Had-Cancer, comedian Bill Engvall, and singer Troy Gentry) to his ranch this weekend, where they will hold the first annual Rusty Baker and Josh Beckett Hunt for Charity with all food earmarked for food banks and all money raised from the charity tourney headed to other charities. More »

2:05 PM on Sat Nov 8 2008
By Tuffy
2,579 views, 8 comments

Most discussed Trot Nixons Hat: Why isn't Rich Garces mentioned in this article, but only in the picture? more »

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Stat Nerd Better At Predicting Elections Than Predicting The NL East

If you're a seamhead, you know Nate Silver as the Baseball Prospectus geek who has probably forgotten more about algorithms than you and I will ever know. He invented the PECOTA projection system, which predicted Tampa Bay's first 90-win season way back in February when the ~~Devil~~ Rays were still the laughing stock of the AL East. If you're a policy wonk, you may also know him as the geek behind FiveThirtyEight, which has done for political polling what BP has done for your fantasy team—and has been scarily accurate about the results of this year's elections. More »

10:45 AM on Thu Nov 6 2008
By Dashiell Bennett
11,194 views, 68 comments

Most discussed TheK-GunNeedsReloaded: Um, when did three squares of Nebraska become independent states? more »

Live Blogs

World Series Game One Live Blog: Phillies At Rays

Playoff baseball in Florida. Just as Abner Doubleday foretold in his hallucinations. It begins right now as Cole "Settled In" Hamels and Scott "Dialed In" Kazmir will pitch. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver will tell you what you already knew on the Fox broadcast. And this piece? Well, I call it "Lick My Love Jump." More »

7:55 PM on Wed Oct 22 2008
By Matt Sussman
20,460 views, 516 comments

Most discussed Slothrop: I'm so old I not only remember how great the '83 Series was, but that the Royals were a team more »

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