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In a recent BP chat with Maury Brown (who covers the business beat), he had this to say about the developing Josh Hamilton story:

This is a heck of a story to watch. He’s been given a new lease on life, and seems to have turned the corner with how he deals daily with his (hopefully) former drug use past.

It’s early on in the season. I think that the Reds are watching him closely, as I’m sure the rest of the baseball world is. If he remains clean and sober, on top of being the player that was thought of so highly to begin with in his career, Hamilton has a good chance to be the feel good story of ‘07.

Jackie Robinson’s 60 year anniversary of 4-15-1947 debut.

Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream

Jackie Robinson Heroes America

Alston And The Dodgers

• Here is the visual of the Under the Knife columnist/Baseball Prospectus Radio host Will Carroll.

gyro ball :” With the impending MLB debut of Japanese superstar Daisuke Matsuzaka, now with the Boston Red Sox, there has been much written about a supposedly new pitch that he throws called the gyroball.”

The closer death pool: So far Lidge and Julio. who will be next?

Got ESPN fantasy? Seems as smooth as ESPN Mobile

Rob Neyer Chin Muzak turned internet-blogger. So is the who’s the boss star.

The Marlins needed to trade for Julio as much as the Rays needed to bring back the services of Lugo. Finally, they realizied this. A little to late though.

De Aza has some toughness as he has been hurting for a week before revealing it. I guess he did not want to be known as Wally Pipp.

Oliver Perez meltdown. Is anyone surprised?

Dukes and the Tampa Bay team that is coming together

MLB.com’s online video called MLB.tv seems to have a better suite of features this year. Here is what it says on web site:

Out of market games at 400K

Gameday audio also included

Condensed Games, Searchable video, clickable linescores, baseball channel, extended highlights

Subscibers url is in format of

http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/index.jsp#20070405

Gameday enhanced seems also a feature.

MLB podcasts

MLB radio

• Keith, Gary, Ron cartoon
• The Phillies 25th man found.
• The juiced ball explosion explained
• Those #5 starters
• HRAM - the new Jose Reyes. Beckett has some explaining to do
• Tim Marchman is one smart dude. Finally, a positive take found on the Devil Rays.

We have all seen the movie The Natural. Boy, did the Josh Hamilton major league debut on opening day sure remind us of this scene from the movie.

The site name is Roto-Ruler where instead of taking the dispute to the commissioner, for under $10 you can have an independent party settle the incident.

There is no trust in fantasy baseball:

But like most avid fantasy players, Clark admits he has been in leagues where participants don’t trust one another completely.