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IT IS A terrible thing for any professional baseball team to be 25 games under .500. That glaring minus number is code for a lost season, for 6 months of shattered dreams and an inexorable descent down the mineshaft leading to last place.
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WHEN I'M King of the World . . .
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- "Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?" - Yogi Berra "Think long, think wrong."
- WHEN I'M KING of the World . . . Cole Hamels will run for Phillies player representative on the platform of a chicken in every pot and two chiropractors in every clubhouse . . . Now that the Phils have added Dr. Michael Weinik to the biggest medical staff this side of the lovable "Grey's Anatomy" gang at Seattle Grace Hospital, isn't it time for somebody to step forward and admit that Tom
- OPENING DAY 1947. Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Boston Braves. Jackie Robinson made history that day as manager Burt Shotton's first baseman. Pee Wee Reese was at shortstop. Carl Furillo was in right. They would become the early core of a long-running lineup known as the "Boys of Summer."
- Spahn and Sain and pray for rain. - Famed pitching lament CLEARWATER, Fla. - What we remember now as a terse commentary on a lack of pitching depth was once an entire poem. It was written in 1948 by Boston Post sports editor Gerald V. Hern to describe Braves manager Billy Southworth's pitching rotation.
- TAMPA, Fla. - On a day normally devoted to putting as many eggs as possible in one basket, the task here was getting all the seeds out of one building. This wasn't an early-round weekend; it was a pomegranate.
- TAMPA, Fla. - The numbers shine through the prism of 23 years. Harken, time traveler. Take a bite on these:
- CLEARWATER, Fla. - One hundred, Jimmy? OK, maybe if you count the exhibition victories you guys seem to regard as annoying speed bumps between the tedium of February workouts and the boredom of those meaningless March games.
- CLEARWATER, Fla. - It was Sideshow Monday. There haven't been so many sideshows in one place since Ringling Bros. wintered the Greatest Show on Earth down the Gulf Coast in Sarasota.
- CLEARWATER, Fla. - With one out and a runner on first in a minor league squad game Saturday between Class A players, the Human Highlight Reel moved to doubleplay depth. A ball was chopped up the middle. Teenaged shortstop Freddy Galvis, the HHR, flashed in front of the bag to field it.
- CLEARWATER, Fla. - When I'm King of the World . . . (Spring Training Edition) The autobiography of multiple Cy Young Award-winning, serial no-hitter-pitching, Hall of Fame-heading, chiropractor-supporting Cole Hamels will be titled, "Footprints On My Tongue" . . . Where was Jamie Moyer when the lefthander responded to the
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