WHEN I'M KING of the World . . .
Top minor league baseball development managers will be assigned where they can do the most effective job of helping players advance to the highest possible level . . .
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - If you can't stand the heat, get out of the Gulf Coast League. But, no sweat, this is your annual pilgrimage to the bottom rung of the professional baseball ladder, a 5-year look into a murky crystal ball.
- COLLEGE AND high school students interested in sports-writing careers contact me from time to time seeking advice on how best to enter an industry in crisis.
- THERE IS A significant difference between concern and panic. Concern is when the unsinkable ocean liner begins to list enough for the fine china to start sliding off the tables and the captain orders the women and children to assemble at their designated lifeboats.
- SATURDAY, Oct. 6, 1973, was Yom Kippur and the first game of the National League Championship Series between Tug McGraw's "Ya Gotta Believe" New York Mets and Pete Rose's Cincinnati Reds. As righthanders Tom Seaver and Pedro Borbon prepared to do battle in Riverfront Stadium, Egypt and Syria violated the most sacred day on the Jewish religious calendar with a massive invasion of Israel.
- "The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword." - Oscar Wilde OMAR MINAYA DID IT three time zones away. With a laptop. Omar did it after the New York Mets held on for their second straight victory, outlasting the first-place Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
- IF DISCOVERING five-tool baseball players was easy, Club Five would not have such an elite membership. There is no waiting list.
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Bill Conlin: Phillies' 2008 offense might be better than 1977 powerhouse
- TODAY'S EXERCISE: Match up the best offensive Phillies team you've seen in days of yore with a 2008 offense that might be the best in franchise history. But first, some observations:
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MAJOR LEAGUE baseball's June amateur draft and the stock market have something in common: The risks are many and there are no guarantees.
- BABE RUTH hit home run No. 600 against the dreadful St. Louis Browns on a steamy afternoon. It was Aug. 21, 1931 and Ruth's homer probably was not much of a headline.
- WHEN I'M King of the World . . . Pitching coaches will not be required to have been great pitchers. They will, however, be required to have a great knowledge of pitching with emphasis on the basic mechanics that Hall of Fame-level pitchers have used for more than a century . . . The biggest salary spread in major league baseball is between superstar player and coach. That's why superstar pitchers don't often become pitching coaches.
- NO PRISONERS . . . The good teams don't feel a twinge of pity for a loser that comes to their town trailing blue smoke like a Dust Bowl-era truck carrying a family of foreclosed Okie farmers through Death Valley.
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