Year: 2004
DC Baseball; Guzman/Castilla sign
I’m sure you have all heard the news that the Montreal Expos are moving to Washington, D.C. (Here is a…
Read more »New hope for J-Stew??? Plus other notes
Found this today via the “members only” message board from a certain WSU site I joined. Take this with a…
Read more »INTERVIEW: Jay Burke
An independent, 20-minute movie is out on the airwaves that had been planned since before the playoffs, and started shooting…
Read more »Wins Relative to Average Player (WRAP)
Alan Schwarz of the New York Times had an article November 7th, 2004 titled “Game Theory Posits Measure of Baseball…
Read more »Billy Traber Claimed!
Updated:The Boston Red Sox claimed Billy Traber off waivers. Traber was chosen in the first round and 16th overall of…
Read more »Immortalized
Yesterday was the one-month anniversary of Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS – Mondays’ wise. Four Mondays ago, I attended…
Read more »More Free Agent Chatter
Peter Gammons recently came out with an article as he does from time to time on ESPN.com. Not surprisingly, there’s…
Read more »Free Agent Catchers
The Gray Eagle at Sons of Sam Horn had an interesting post … Most Catchers Stink Since the Sox could…
Read more »The Strike Heard ëRound The World – Chapter 1
Frank Palmieri will be checking into Fire Brand occasionally with segments of a fictional baseball piece he is writing. ‘¯?Bases…
Read more »The Strike Heard
Frank Palmieri will be checking into Fire Brand occasionally with segments of a fictional baseball piece he is writing.
Read more »Boxed into a Corner (2004 Minor League 1B + 3B)
Updated:It’s time for the Corner Organizational Depth Chart Review! Here is last year’s third base installment and first base installment….
Read more »No Snoop….at least not yet?
Since the season is a disaster and we’ll probably lose out, I thought I’d focus on recruiting right now……. Well,…
Read more »Next Year’s bullpen
What should next year’s bullpen look like? CLOSER Keith Foulke – This says all you need to know about Foulke….
Read more »Assorted News: Vocabulary, Backman, Hunsicker, Pedro
NEW WORDS TO INTEGRATE INTO OUR LEXICON, FROM READER KIRK JONES A Bellhorn – Anytime a left-handed batter hits the…
Read more »INTERVIEW: Dick Radatz Jr.
Dick Radatz, Jr. is a co-founder of the Northwoods League and has an educational background and work experience in sports…
Read more »VICTORY PARADE!
Sam Killay (MVN Devil Rays columnist and frequent commenter on Fire Brand) came up last night to attend the parade…
Read more »Recruiting rumors?
I have heard from a couple of people now, we’ll call them “sources”, that say Stewart is very serious now…
Read more »An Ode to Pedro
Pedro Martinez. So much can be said in these five syllables. If I attempted to explain what that name means…
Read more »World Series Game Four – Red Sox 3 Cardinals 0
I’m sorry, but I can’t really put into words this game. It was a monumental effort by an absolutely amazing…
Read more »World Champions!
The Boston Red Sox are the 2004 World Series Champions of Major League Baseball! We believed … and won. “Again,…
Read more »Curt Schilling Interview
Curt Schilling was interviewed by the fans on Boston Dirt Dogs, and the interview was released today. In it, a…
Read more »World Series Game Three – Red Sox 4 Cardinals 1
The Red Sox came thisclose to shutting the Cardinals down on a three-hit shutout. Alas, much-maligned closer Keith Foulke gave…
Read more »Who Has The Advantage?
Today, there was one article on ESPN that caught my eye. It was by Buster Olney, and it depicted the…
Read more »Recruiting and other updates galore
Found some good inside info on many players committed to WSU or thinking about it (yes, I broke down and…
Read more »No Foulkeing Way – Foulke Shuts Down Opposition
Keith Foulke is absolutely locked in right now — 12 straight appearances without a run. To come in two nights…
Read more »World Series Game Two – Cardinals 2 Red Sox 6
The Red Sox defeated the Cardinals to take the second game in the World Series. Curt Schilling played on blood…
Read more »World Series Game One – Cardinals 9 Red Sox 11
The highest scoring Game 1 in the history of the World Series occurred today (what is with the Red Sox…
Read more »Anxious Musings
Updated:BREAKING NEWS: Chris Carpenter is not on the roster, declining the Cardinals their best starter. Al Reyes is on the…
Read more »Bostowned / Know Thy Enemy: The 2004 St. Louis Cardinals (IN-DEPTH, WORLD SERIES VERSION!)
A new era is upon us. This is an era where Red Sox fans do not have to quiver in…
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