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Padres Sinking Fast After Another Feeble Loss to Cubs

SAN DIEGO -- Good thing that the San Diego Padres play their home games a home run from the Pacific Ocean, as their once buoyant playoff bid is going glug, glug, glug. With their hitters again swinging as if standing on the nearby ocean floor, the Padres lost 1-0 to the Chicago Cubs on Thursday, ending a four-game series...

Twelve Thoughts: Towers in Arizona, Car-Go and A's, Kirk Gibson's Future

The Padres were a sports car needing mostly a tuneup years ago when they hired as their general manager Kevin Towers, who now takes over a bad Diamondbacks team. When Towers replaced Randy Smith in late 1995, the rookie GM inherited the future all-time saves leader in Trevor Hoffman and a future Hall of Famer in Tony...

FanHouse TV: Re-Examining the 1996 All-Star Game

The year was 1996 and the location was Philadelphia, Pa. John Smoltz got the win and Charles Nagy took the loss. There were home runs by Ken Caminiti and Mike Piazza. And, oh yeah, the National League won. The Senior Circuit has yet to match that accomplishment since that night in the mid-nineties. FanHouse TV's Jeff...

MLB Power Rankings: Week 17

MLB Power Rankings: Where MLB FanHouse's editors, writers and bloggers team up to break down the who's who and the what's what in the baseball world.The second half of the season is in full swing and lo and behold if capitalism hasn't reared it's ugly head once again. Billy Beane was spun off Matt Holliday (as expected of...

Padres GM Kevin Towers Marches On

SAN DIEGO -- If there were any doubts that Kevin Towers was a baseball lifer, they were answered on his wedding day.Just before exchanging vows with his wife in December 1996, the Padres general manager exchanged players with Tigers GM Randy Smith, a member of his wedding party."Any time you get baseball people together,...

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05/29/12 Special Report: Steroids, 10 years later -- To cheat... Source: Thief River Falls Times - Thief River Falls MN This story appears in the June 4, 2012 issue of Sports Illustrated.

Background on ken caminiti

Kenneth Gene Caminiti (April 21, 1963 – October 10, 2004) was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball and the 1996 National League Most Valuable Player.

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