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Blue Jays Refuse to Go Quietly in the Night, ALDS Now 2-1
Image courtesy of Arturo Pardavila III/Flickr. From an outsider’s perspective, there was nothing that 100 men or more could ever do: This game belonged to the Toronto Blue Jays regardless of the cost. With their...
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Blue Jays Find their Backs Against the Wall as Rangers Go Bird Hunting
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Tempers flare during baseball square offs – it happens. It’s only human. At the bottom of the 13th inning during Game 2 of the ALDS between the Toronto Blue...
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Underestimation Fuels Rangers, Texas Takes Game 1 of the ALDS
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Once upon a time, there was an atrocious M. Night Shyamalan movie staring Mark Wahlberg (who acted like a Mark Wahlberg cardboard cutout) where this neurotoxin caused anyone and...
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Separating Truth from Fiction: Dallas Mavericks Media Day
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/BMF SPORTS . It never fails: whenever a man in-the-know manages to dodge some dingbat member of the media bottom-feeders’ question, the dingbat in question takes it upon himself (or herself)...
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Wagging the Dog: Why DeAndre Jordan is a Cowardly Prick
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Okay, so, as we all know, shit happens. We deal with the shit, helplessly analyze the shit, and begrudgingly move on. True character is revealed when these sort of...
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Dirk Nowitzki's 2015 Celebrity Baseball Game Training Camp
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/BMF Sports . As the heat demolished everything in its path on Friday morning, the Dallas press stood eagerly on the field of the Dr. Pepper Ballpark, patiently awaiting the face...
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Slicing Open the Snake: An Open Letter From Sacramento Kings’ Fans
Image courtesy of Nirvan Sorooshian/Baller Mind Frame. ATT: Mr. Ranadivé, Mr. Divac, Rest of the Sacramento Kings Front Office, Rumors are rumors – just word-of-mouth breezes that ruffle fields during the summer time off season....
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Los Angeles Dodgers Win in Balkoff - A Wickedly Stupid, Insane, Freaking Balkoff
Screen capture courtesy of MLB/YouTube. I was once seeing this guy who didn’t understand the complexities of major league baseball who had asked me to explain what exactly a “balk” is. After a lengthy monologue...
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Texas Rangers Suffocate LA Dodgers' Bats, Take Game 4-1
Image courtesy of Arturo Pardavila III/Flickr . Sometimes, tantrums get the best of grown men, but usually they’re not caught on camera in front of a crowd of thousands. After starting Texas Rangers pitcher Yovani...
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In the Hall of the Mountain King: A Year Inside the Dallas Mavericks Locker Room
Image courtesy of TJ Macias/BMF Sports . A pair of periwinkle pumps stepped lightly on the oddly fashionable carpet that lined the Dallas Mavericks locker room, unnoticed, unbidden, unforgiving as they blended with an overwhelming...
