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Tag: Baseball
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How To Not Be Romantic About Baseball
The Braves and the Astros are in my ear, and I should be feeling the pull of nostalgia hearing Joe Buck’s voice between the sounds of the game. It is October and the World Series has started and here is my childhood favorite team back for the first time since 1999 and yet I feel […]
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I Refuse to Budget My Childhood Video Games!
ESPN put out a tweet this week that’s a version of the $15 budget meme, featuring tiers from $1-5, featuring sports video games mostly from the early 2000’s. Usually I’ll play along and at least offer up an answer or attempt to make the $15 budget, but this time I simply refuse. The list of […]
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Minor League Shakeup: Best Team Names
Minor League Baseball’s restructuring became official last week with the announcement that 120 teams had signed Player Development Licenses with Major League franchises. There’s no question that the change in MiLB is devastating to dozens of communities and hundreds of employees and players who will no longer have the same opportunities in places like Clinton, […]
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TGS 2020 MLB Preview
Better late than never, right? Nearly four months later than expected, the 2020 MLB season is about to begin. The season’s first pitch will take place Thursday, July 23, at Nationals Park, when the New York Yankees visit the defending World Series champions in Washington D.C. Most teams will begin play the next day. A […]
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Let’s Celebrate Charlie Blackmon
Charlie Blackmon of the Colorado Rockies is one of the best guys in Major League Baseball, and he finally got a hit in an All-Star game. It wasn’t just a Texas Leaguer either. He got his money’s worth. Before his bomb on Tuesday night, he had been 0-8 in his three previous All-Star appearances. I […]
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N-E-T-S Nets Nets Nets!
Earlier this year, ESPN’s Outside the Lines released a report that a woman died in August 2018 after being struck by a foul ball at a Los Angeles Dodgers game. The story was shared in the TGS Slack baseball channel and we all had the same reaction: “Oh my god, did you know about this?” […]
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TGS Contributor Baseball Predictions
It’s time for TGS contributors to make their predictions that are sure to be wrong!
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Introducing “Matinee Baseball”
If you love baseball, or movies, or perhaps even just nostalgia, this podcast will help you get through the dog days of summer and the baseball season.
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Preview: 2018 Women’s Baseball World Cup
First there was the College World Series, then the men’s soccer World Cup.
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Javier Baez Is Having An MVP Season, Will He Be The MVP?
The MVP talk is starting to heat up and somehow Javier Baez finds himself right in the middle of it. You look in every direction of any Chicago sports media, Baez is there. He is exceeding most expectations of his young career thus far this season but is it good enough to be the NL […]
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