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The Dugout: No Play For Mister Incredibly Tall

If Major League Baseball is the critically acclaimed AMC scripted drama "Mad Men" (and it is), Randy Johnson is the Jimmy Barrett, a guy who isn't around anymore but is fondly remembered for stuffing Utz potato chips in his face like a nut and killing a bird with a fastball. In this analogy, the dead bird is the sanctity...

The Dugout: Unit of Measurement

In terms of pitchers who have been great since I was eight years old, Randy Johnson is one of the very best. His accomplishments speak for themselves, and the announcement of his retirement on Tuesday puts a life lived for baseball into perspective. There may never be another pitcher like The Big Unit, unless there is some...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The San Francisco Giants' 2009 Preview

In conclusion, the San Francisco Giants are a team that can be compared and contrasted. The end.Wait, I have to write more, don't I. After plowing through the AL West last week, the annual The Dugout Spring Training event moves on to the NL West, where teams get fired up to race passionately toward the pennant and become...

Be Ye Live or Dead, The Dugout Grinds Your Bones To Make Its Bread

Jon, NIck, and I once had a discussion about who the scariest man imaginable would be. What we came up with is that he'd be really tall, he'd be really fast, and I think we decided he'd have sharp teeth. And he'd always be trying to get you. Something tells me that when Randy Johnson is walking the streets alone, he picks...

The Dugout Presents Yankee Refocus Giant-Sized Annual #1

Great, now we're getting to that point in the offseason where every news update is about how the Yankees are "interested in" the big free agents and how some guy from some network interviewed them and they totally said they'd love to play for the Yankees, and on and on and blah blah blah. We've been doing this comic long...