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The Dugout: San Francisco Giants Spring Training 2011

Pablo Sandoval is losing weight for the 2011 season, thanks in part to his new workout partner, Miguel Tejada. Here is a joke about that situation, and it goes, The Giants are defending champions, and that is a weird thing to type, but the world is watching them to see if they become a ragtag dynasty, or they win and are...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The Houston Astros' 2009 Preview

The Astros exceeded expectations last season, but they still have some changes to make if they want the baseball world to see them as a serious contender. First, the bottom half of their tentative rotation (Brian Moehler, Russ Ortiz, the half of Mike Hampton that hasn't crumbled off) is looking pretty dicey. And second,...

Spring Dugz: Houston Astros

You mess with the fat old bull you get the fat old horns!Today the Dugout continues its Spring Training tradition and its center-of-the-Earth-like journey through the NL Central with the Houston Astros, a team so into media coverage that you'd almost forget they play baseball. I like to think that Clemens is just a fan of...

The Dugout: So Proud O' He

Hold on, I'm going to change into my Sports Writing pants for a second.How dare you, Miguel Tejada. How dare you treat the citizens of this great state of America with such disregard, such painful abandon, such un-sincerity. How dare you point your cold, skeletal finger at our government and say, "I did not have sexual...