Yesterday, Major League Baseball announced its rosters for the 2008 All-Star Game to be played on July 15 at Yankee Stadium. Now, we take a look at the National League roster, to see who doesn't deserve to go and who got shafted. We don't have quite as many problems with the NL Roster as we did   more...
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Screaming Sports' Billy Smith checks in on some of the mega-hyped offseason stars, as well as the not-so-hyped offseason stars. Who is living up to it? Who isn't? And who is coming out of left field? Billy has all of those answers for you.
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New York Post: Arizona right-hander Brandon Webb will start for the NL and Cleveland lefty Cliff Lee goes for the AL.Consider me unsurprised. I really would like to hear the reasoning why Webb is getting the start considering he hasn't even been his teams best pitcher so far this year.
Original Story: http://www.dunnanddunner.com/2008/07/vol....

Screaming Sports' Billy Smith break out MLB Buy 'n Sell and runs down a short list of players you should be buying or selling. Ryan Doumit? Believe it or not, it's time to sell. Aaron Harang? Grab him while he's hot!
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While the AL is trouncing the NL in interleague play yet again, the NL has emerged as the Talent League, with the majority of elite fantasy players residing in the Senior of the two circuits. The Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame takes a step back at the virtual midpoint of the season to construct All   more...
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Thanks to Dunn & Dunner (dunnanddunner.com) for the heads up on this atrocity...According to the New York Post this evening, Brandon Webb will be starting for the Nat'l League...I'm actually stunned, well, I was for a half a second or so. And then I realized how this works again. And until the All   more...

It's the halfway point of the baseball season and it's time to hand out some hardware and name some All-Stars.We will start in the American League where the most obvious surprise is the success of the Tampa Bay Rays. They dropped the Devil and it turns out that was the only thing holding them back   more...

Who doesn't respect a little honesty from an athlete these days? I welcome any comment not a clichéd sound bite the same way I would a free lapdance: the more the merrier. Burnett just broke the mold in a fashion we'd expect from the Mad Ink member.
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Why Edinson Volquez should be the NL All-Star starter. Name who you think should start...
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I'm just gonna throw it out there, if you don't wanna take it just go ahead and push it back: Vernon Wells and AJ Burnett for Matt Holiday and Jeff Francis. Bullocks you say? Lets take a closer look and reserve judgment for a moment...
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With the blog v. MSM issue simmering on the back burner the MSM have cleverly fired back at the blogosphere. Allegedly misquoting members from Deadspin, and potentially The Big Lead, a piece in the Los Angeles Times (of all bloody places) has incited recent infighting. Taken from TBL.com...
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If passive managing was the fashion required to produce champions in baseball, one would rightly assume bench managers wouldn't exist. The fact that they do, in spite of Toronto Blue Jays Manager John Gibbons reluctance to assume the role, makes one question his value as he appears to be a   more...
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by Kevin MarkA week ago I was browsing the Yardbarker.com site when I came across an interesting blog called Baseball Playoffs Now written by Dan Jarrett. Dan has created a mathematical formula to predict the final records of all Major League teams. He also uses mathematics to predict how the MLB   more...
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Tell whether this hypothetical situation is a buy (you agree) or a sell (disagree)...Chase Utley has another great half and can squeeze out the Phillies third straight MVP awardRyan Howard strikes out 200+ times and breaks his own strike-out record in a single seasonPat Burrell can hit 30+ home   more...

FIO and the Baseball Lab complete their series on the best fantasy players of 2007 by looking into the depths of Starting Pitching. Fausto Carmona was (still is) king of he unexpected while Chris Carpenter killed more than one of us.
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