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Ten Big Memories of the Big Unit

I covered Randy Johnson as a beat writer for eight seasons: 1999-2004 with the Diamondbacks and then 2005-06 with the Yankees. (We both moved East the same winter, by coincidence.) So I figure I saw about 230 of Johnson's starts – hey, I deserved a day off once in a while – and more than 100 of his 300 wins....

Tribe Hoping Things Even Out in '09

FanHouse continues its 2009 MLB Preview with a look at the Cleveland Indians.Coming off a 96-win season in 2007, the Indians were expected to be one of the stronger teams in the AL last year. Cleveland looked like it was going to compete with the Tigers all year for the division crown. They had Victor Martinez, one of the...

Justin Morneau Would Like to Expand Replay

With baseball set to start using instant replay on Thursday, there are a lot of different opinions floating around as to whether or not baseball should be doing this. Some are perfectly fine with the whole thing, thinking that it's about time the game finally adapted to this new-fangled technology, and then there are...

Family First for Sal Fasano

Sure, we here at FanHouse love to laugh at the foibles of overpaid athletes as much as the next guy. But we also have a serious side -- one that was moved by a recent story concerning one of our favorite ballplayers, the Blue Jays' Sal "The Stache" Fasano. Sal's wife, Kerri, is carrying their third son who was recently...

Has J.P. Ricciardi Thrown In The Jays' Towel?

Back in March, the 2007 Blue Jays looked like a team ready to build upon its second-place finish in the 2006 AL East race. But through an absurd rash of injuries (not to mention angering the Gods of Baseball by demoting Sal "the Stache" Fasano), the team's hopes dissolved like a cake in the rain. Of course,...