You wake up one morning, and you go to the bathroom. Something’s not right. There’s blood in your urine. You panic. While you’re on hold with the doctor’s office to get an immediate appointment, you do what you should never do in this situation. You google it. You see that this can be a sign of kidney stones or cancer. Not exactly a terrific way to celebrate your 27th...
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Mostly, you should ignore Spring Training. The only results that matter is how a player is progressing toward getting ready for the season. That’s much more important than their stats or a team’s Win-Loss record. However, I do admit there is one aspect of Spring Training that has me troubled. Things have been very quiet in Washington. Last year, Bryce Harper went from asking where...
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The worst thing that can happen to the Mets is them losing one of their pitchers for any period of time. With Matt Harvey’s undisclosed and unknown medical situation, this fear is now a reality. The scary part about it is how it has escalated. First, the Mets assumed he was hung over. Then, they thought it wouldn’t prevent him from making his next Spring Training start. Now,...
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Ask a Mets fan which team is going to represent the National League in the World Series, and you know what their answer will be. In a clubhouse full of confident guys like Matt Harvey, you know to a man the Mets believe they are returning to the World Series. You know who else agrees that the Mets will return to the World Series? Eric Hosmer. The Kansas City Royals first baseman told Ebenezer...
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Whether players like it or not, New York City has enacted a smokeless tobacco ban that will prevent them from using chewing tobacco at Citi Field and Yankee Stadium. As we see from the quotes, there are players like Lucas Duda, to whom it’ll have no effect. There are others who do use it. We don’t know what, if any, impact it will have on them. At this point, no one knows how this...
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