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Beware the Dugouts of March: The Pittsburgh Pirates' 2009 Preview

Posted: Mar 24th 2009 7:00PM by B. Thompson Stroud (author feed)
Filed under: Pirates, NL Central, The Dugout

If you click the "Pirates" tag, you may be surprised to see one or more Dugouts on every page, despite the fact that we almost never do Dugouts about the Pirates. What this means is this: even people who infrequently mention the Pirates do so more than the rest of humanity. I'm going to google "Pirates blog" and get a bunch of black and yellow webpages with news about the Mets.

This afternoon's Dugout of March is after the jump. Arrrr, bottle of rum, Johnny Depp, etc.

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Beware the Dugouts of March: The Houston Astros' 2009 Preview

Posted: Mar 23rd 2009 6:40PM by Jon Bois (author feed)
Filed under: Astros, NL Central, The Dugout

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The Astros exceeded expectations last season, but they still have some changes to make if they want the baseball world to see them as a serious contender. First, the bottom half of their tentative rotation (Brian Moehler, Russ Ortiz, the half of Mike Hampton that hasn't crumbled off) is looking pretty dicey. And second, their logo continues to look like that of an Internet service provider. Ever wonder why the cable guy never shows up on time? He's busy playing mediocre baseball in Texas.

Astros fans, your Dugout is after the jump.

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The Dugout: Full Circle

Posted: Jul 31st 2008 12:47AM by B. Thompson Stroud (author feed)
Filed under: Tigers, Yankees, AL Central, AL East, MLB Transactions, The Dugout

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With all due respect to Pudge Rodriguez, nobody should give a crap about Pudge Rodriguez because the Bull of the Woods Kyle Farnsworth has been traded. It is the job of The Dugout to continue preaching the gospel of Farnsy, from his promising days as a rookie in Chicago to Detroit and Atlanta to his Golden Era in New York, and now back to Detroit, and then inevitably back to Chicago in a year or two and then the minor leagues. And then his house? We'll go back to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College if we have to.

The fact that they traded Farnsworth for Pudge is an important part of Dugout lore, because it was the Farnsworth v. Pudge showdown in the 2003 playoffs that birthed the concept later illustrated and perfected in the Jeter/A-Rod Saga and made a regular thing on Wordupthome.com. Now we get paid to do what we love (making baseball players curse at each other), and it's all because of Kyle.

NOTICE US KYLE WE'RE DOING THIS FOR YOU. Somebody tell Farnsworth about this shiz before we go crazy. The most important Dugout of the year is after the jump.

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