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It Isn’t Over Until Max Scherzer Says It Is

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By Barry Petchesky Verified
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Pitchers are a kooky breed: superstitious, hypercompetitive, quite often a little bit nuts. It's a personality type that shares a lot with kickers and goalies in other sports. The common threads? First, they have an awful lot of downtime to spend in their own heads. Second, they are, to an extent, competing with themselves—out there all alone, with nothing but their own limitations to battle. Deprived of the warmth of human interaction, sometimes they go downright feral. Whatever works.
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Fifth Third Park Is A Terrible Stadium Name

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By Barry Petchesky Verified
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The Detroit Tigers announced Monday that their ballpark will henceforth and forever, or until the naming-rights deal runs out or some more banks merge, be known as Fifth Third Park. "When you look around, it's so much more than where the Tigers play baseball," Ryan Gustafson, CEO of Ilitch Sports and Entertainment, said at the unveiling. So much more. It's not merely a "Tiger" "stadium." It's Fifth Third Park. Fifth Third! Ol' One and Two-Thirds Field. The Fraction.
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Fifth Third Park Is A Terrible Stadium Name

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By Barry Petchesky Verified
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Prospect Phillies traded for Michael Lorenzen just made MLB history for Taiwan One we'd like to have back. The past five seasons of Philadelphia Phillies baseball has been one of the most prosperous eras in franchise history, …
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