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The Dugout: Texas Rangers Spring Training 2011

Michael Young is the type of guy who says he doesn't mind DHing, then complains all the time when you make him DH. He's the type of guy who calls a meeting to tell everyone the past is behind him and that he won't be a distraction, then tells people he's just "making the best of a less than ideal situation" and distracts...

The Dugout: The Doggone Cliff Lee Is Mine

Cliff Lee is still my favorite baseball player. A few hours after I posted my love letter to melodramatic light R&B hater duets between forgotten late 90s teenage soul singers Cliff Lee made it official, spurning both the evil, greedy New York Yankees and the Alamo-having Texas Rangers to sign with his former team, the...

The Dugout: Cliff Lee Is Mine

Cliff Lee is my favorite player, and that is one of my favorite pictures of him. Look at him, he isn't doing the Joba Chamberlain RAHHH after striking somebody out and he isn't screaming obscenities. He's either trying to catch bugs, or saying "augh" and making that noise Charlie Brown made when he fell on the pitchers...

The Dugout: Cliff Lee Is Just the Absolute Worst

Cliff Lee is my favorite baseball player. He's the first real "favorite player" I've had since Cal Ripken, Jr., retired. He rose to prominence when I was living in Cleveland, and he gave me a great reason to swing that little-used It's Tribe Time Now rally towel around my head. I moved to Texas, and so did Cliff. I've...

The Dugout: Sold! (The Texas Rangers Auction Incident)

One of these days, somebody in Major League Baseball is going to allow Dallas Mavericks and Landmark Theaters owner Mark Cuban to buy a baseball team. What happens then? Who knows, but if it leads to play-by-play commentary inspired by The Fountainhead and a This Week in Baseball segment where Randy Orton drops Fergie...