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This week's Muskbox answers those questions you've been dying to ask all offseason. Such as who is going to take over the Cubs' blogging duties now that THE PULSE is in Cleveland. Seriously. That's one of the best questions that was asked. Just watch: How closely is the performance of the players participating in the World Baseball ... Read More

Happy second birthday, HJE. I didn't get you anything because, quite frankly, you've really let yourself go in the past two years. You've had 1,124 posts, 10,941+ comments, 105,687 spam comments, and a couple of facelifts in your two years. CT is somehow your "best" commenter, followed by bocaj, StPatrick, BigFlax, and PenFoe. Your most active ... Read More

I was inexplicably watching a few innings of the Dominican Republic-Panama game in the World Baseball Classic last night, and one of the ESPN Bottom Line's items was a "list" of the top three fantasy pitchers on the decline. The number one pitcher was Carlos Zambrano. Now, I'm not one to give ESPN any sort of credibility when it comes ... Read More

So help me God, until yesterday, I had absolutely no clue that Luis Rivas was on the team. I tried to write "Divas" on the lineup card, and this little twerp runs out there to play. Oh, well. I'll let the little guy hang out until we sign, like, Jose Offerman, or someone. That will probably ... Read More

I can't believe that Rick Morrisey actually paid to write this crap. MESA, Ariz. � It's quiet. Too quiet. Aww, Jesus. Didn't we have this bullshit last year? What is it with these unimaginative hacks and their need to see fire trucks and explosions in in Spring Training? This team has won back-to-back division titles and for the ... Read More

You know the routine. When posting your work, the �img src� works. Preview before you submit to see if it does. If it doesn�t, leave a link to the picture, and I�ll eventually get around to fixing it so it displays. It�s best if you keep the picture under 500 px wide. If you upload to Flickr, they ... Read More

Being the generous person that I am, and certainly not because I'm a giant nerd, I picked up MLB 2K9 for the Xbox 360 at a midnight release (I was slightly less nerdy than the guys buying Halo Wars) so I could give you my impressions. I apologize for the length of this post, but it's a bit of ... Read More

On my way home from work tonight, the lovely J-Kerm called me to ask if I wanted to go out to dinner at a local Naperville establishment. J-Kerm, who has a sudden affinity for signing us up for every single e-mail club on the planet, had a coupon for a free entree that expires tomorrow. So off we ... Read More

I don't know what it is, but I have absolutely no interest in Spring Training this season. Maybe it's the fact that there are basically only two position "battles" going on this spring, one of which includes two guys who couldn't get into a rated R movie if they stood on each other's shoulders and wore a trenchcoat and ... Read More