Blog posts

April 26, 2024
This is Apple Gate: Red Sox Use Apple Watch to Steal Signs

This is Applegate. When presented with two polar opposite doctrines of thought, which side of the fence are you on? While one adage states that “if you ain’t cheating, you...

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Bryce Harper Charges Mound and Throws Haymakers (and his helmet).

You can't teach this reactive competitive savagery, nor can you tame it. Athletes like Bryce Harper, Serena Williams, Sidney Crosby to name a few, are wired from birth to focus on...

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Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.

In life, there exist all kinds of family.  Richard Bach wrote: “the bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each...

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The Day the Sports Went Out.

Once again, the Darkness fell upon us. No, I am not talking about your best friend bailing on post-work beers to hunt Pokémon in the neighbourhood park. Nor am I addressing the fact...

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Impossible is Nothing.

Impossible is Nothing. This Friday, the world bids their final farewell to greatest athlete of all time.  How do I know that Ali was THEE greatest…because Wayne Gretzky said so....

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Lip Sweaters and Chin Music.

Fear the beard... or perhaps embrace it as I break down the starting line up of Beards in Baseball. Pound for pound (or follicle for follicle), major leaguers are at...

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A belt exploding start to the MLB season.

Much like selection E12 on the vending machine at the office, a lot has changed over the years.  One comforting constant (Hawkins Cheezies at B6) is that with the calendar...

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Push yourself, but have some F®3$#ing fun along the way.

My timeline is currently getting jammed with opinions on two articles that were recently published.  One was Bryce Harper's ESPN article about his desire to change the game of Baseball and the other...

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Athletes + Twitter - Filter

Yesterday, retired MLB pitcher allegedly hopped on an exercise bike and felt the need to give us a behind the scenes peek at the last few years of his career.  So @ithrow88...

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