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The Dugout: LIMA

Time keeps going about its business. People who are funny jokes to us in the Dugout aren't supposed to die, they're supposed to keep being funny and live out their lives as rich spoiled steroid millionaires. They aren't supposed to die at age 37, when nobody should die. A human being is the only animal on the Earth who...

The Dugout: Angel Pagan Cannot Do Everything

New York Mets center fielder Angel Pagan, pictured right, clearly identifies the person responsible for allowing him to somehow get an inside the park home run and a triple play in the same game but still lose. Playing for the Mets right now must feel like voting for Nader. No matter how much sense it makes, you are...

The Dugout: Jason Bay Plays For Passion

In an attempt to improve their struggling pitching staff, the New York Mets have given $66 million dollars to a mid-.200s outfielder who spent what seemed like sixty years playing for the Pirates before fading into the white-out of Boston. Yes, Jason Bay is headed to the National League. He will be playing next season in...

The Dugout: It's Tribe Time Now, Part 4

Not to ignore everything else that is happening in the world of baseball, but Jim Thome and Manny Ramirez are on the same team and you should be reading about it.Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part four of the quest to reunite the entirety of the 1997 Cleveland Indians on the 2009 Los Angeles Dodgers takes us places we...

The Dugout: The New York Mets Live in a Fallen World

The Mets enjoy a large payroll, a new stadium, and a large city that boasts millions of loyal fans, so it's difficult to make the argument that God hates them. But He clearly holds a grudge, as evidenced by Sunday's bottom-of-the-ninth, rally-killing, unassisted triple play. It was the second time in the history of Major...