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Like many other kids, when I was growing up, I loved dinosaurs. Show me a picture of a dinosaur and I could tell you the name of the species in question, as well as whether it was a plant loving herbivore, or a meat loving carnivore. Although my favorite dinosaurs were the Stegosaurus and the…
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To say that the 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) season has been full of challenges would be an understatement. The season has consisted of one challenge after another with little sign of slowing down. For starters Spring Training was shut down in March. Then, when the season resumed two months later, teams were faced with…
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Dating back to the first article I wrote for my middle school newspaper, I have spent the better part of three decades as a journalist. During that time, I have spent many hours inside bustling newsrooms pounding out columns and other articles at deadline. I even lived every print journalist’s dream and got to yell,…
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Thanks to COVID-19, although many professional sports leagues have resumed play, in many cases the broadcasters are calling the game action from miles away. For NASCAR, only the pit reporters are live on the scene. The announcers are calling the action from Charlotte, North Carolina. Ditto for Major League Baseball where national broadcasters are in…
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It turns out that if you build it in the middle of a global COVID-19 pandemic, they won’t come. Such is the case for the highly touted Major League Baseball (MLB) game between the Chicago White Sox and St. Louis Cardinals that was scheduled to be played August 13 in Dyersville, Iowa amongst the cornfields…
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Earlier this week the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros faced off for the first time since the Astros were caught cheating with their hands in the proverbial trash can. The cheating goes back to the 2017 season when the Dodgers lost to the Astros in the World Series. Looking back at those games,…
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This week the Major League Baseball (MLB) social experiment season reinforced the fact that we are in a season like no other in the middles of a global COVID-19 pandemic. After over a dozen players and staff tested positive for COVID-19, the Miami Marlins had a week’s worth of games postponed. As a result of…
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The Houston Astros were dealt a major setback in their quest to return to the World Series for the third time in four years when it was announced Sunday that pitcher Justin Verlander has a forearm strain and will be shut down “for a couple of weeks,” according to manager Dusty Baker. Verlander, the team’s…
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After months of negotiations, Major League Baseball (MLB) started the 2020 season that they were bound and determined to have despite cases of COVID-19 surging from coast to coast, and more specifically surging within several cities that have MLB teams. While I was watching the Opening Day game Thursday night, between the Washington Nationals and…
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The 2020 Major League Baseball (MLB) season is set to begin tomorrow as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise from coast to coast like a perverse purple mountain majesty. If one is convinced to play baseball in the middle of a global COVID-19 pandemic, it makes sense that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the…
J. Ryan Anderson
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