Jobu examines the rumored Manny Ramirez comeback That’s right, readers. Manny Ramirez is apparently applying for reinstatement by Major League Baseball. Back in April, when news of Manny’s retirement (aka his fleeing baseball to avoid a second drug suspension) first hit the wire, I wrote a piece called “The Four Faces of Manny Ramirez” (it…
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Jobu is back again with this week’s Weekly Shots of Rum, a series of quick posts about this past week’s sports news notables.
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Jerry Ballgame is back with some more observations and random thoughts. This week he covers the Celtics, Red Sox and Patriots as he discusses the “Big Three,” the Red Sox off-season “plans” and a possible Super Bowl rematch. Enjoy!
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Jobu is back with another round of shots! This week’s theme is “greed”, and we’re covering baseball, basketball and pro-wrestling. Greed can come in many forms, including trophy hoarding, divorce settlements and even owner lockouts. We also have an example of the opposite of greed from Major League Baseball. Enjoy!
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Jobu Gives his take on the sale and moving of the Houston Astros… What’s the final verdict? The Houston Astros. Basebal’s lovable losers. They haven’t finished over .500 since 2008, and they haven’t made the playoffs since making it all the way to the World Series as the National League Wild Card winner in 2005…
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Last week’s round of shots went down pretty smoothly, so Jobu is back with some more for you! We’re covering five different sports this week: boxing, basketball, baseball, football and even professional wrestling. We have controversial judge decisions, disbanding unions, disgruntled shortstops, lucky quarterbacks and the return of The Great One. Here’s some musings from…
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Jerry Ballgame gives us his thoughts on the happenings in Boston sports from this past weekend. I am choosing to believe that I wasn’t the only Boston area sports fan that was at least “mildly” blindsided (assuming that there are degrees of “blindsideness”) by two events in our world over this past weekend. The first…
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Jobu sheds some light on an escalating problem in Venezuela that has it’s athlete community scared to even return to their homelands during the off-season.
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Jobu Introduces a new series, his Shots of Rum. These are things of note that happened that can’t fill a whole post, but need to be talked about! Last week was a pretty busy one. We were able to discuss a few things in the blog, namely Yoenis Céspedes, Eli Manning, The Shula Bowl and…
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Jobu reacts to the big news out of the Dominican Republic, that a young Cuban legend has gained MLB eligibility, and ponders on where he might end up. Who Is This Man? If you don’t know the man in the photograph, you might want read this article very closely. He is Yoenis (previously Yoennis) Céspedes,…
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