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The Dugout: Horseplay

The picture to your right is not of former Oriole Kris Benson throwing a pitch. He tried to wave goodbye to a friend and his arm just snapped back like that.In baseball news you may have missed (because you could not possibly care about it), the former first pick in the 1996 draft and perennial bench-grimacer signed a...

The Dugout: What's Happening To Our Hood?

It's Official! Kris Benson signs with the Phillies! Good for him. Have you seen the Orioles motto for this season? "THIS IS BIRDLAND." That's a great way to get fans into the park. "We traded away our stars. COME SEE THE BIRD, THE ACTUAL ANIMAL THE BIRD"With the migration of Anna Benson comes the next chapter in a Dugout...

Benson is a Free Agent

Sorry everybody, that's Kris Benson is a free agent, not Anna. The Baltimore Orioles declined Benson's $7.5 million option for 2008, instead buying out for $500,000 and making Benson eligible for the free agent market. Benson missed the entire 2007 season after having surgery on his partially torn rotator cuff. Benson...

MLB Cy Young Watch: Time to Recognize John Maine

We here at the MLB FanHouse will be musing twice a month until the end of the season on who we think leads the AL and NL Cy Young award races. This is the second installment.National League: John MaineThe Mets can thank Anna Benson. If you believe the tabloids, it was Anna's plunging Christmas dress at a team function...

The Saga of Jorge Julio Continues

Apparently the "it's early in the season" mantra isn't good enough anymore. It sure isn't flying for Jorge Julio (or as Anna Benson calls him: Julio Jorge), as it sounds increasingly like Julio's days as closer of the Marlins are numbered ... numbered in the low single-digits."We'll do what's best for the team, the...