"The Brewers, realizing they’d better get more pitching if they’re going to contend in the future, nearly traded outfielder Jeromy Burnitz to the Mets for pitcher Glendon Rusch." — Bob Nightengale, USA Today Baseball Weekly, August 8-14, 2000. Thank God Dean Taylor doesn’t go to Bob Nightengale for his baseball expertise. Nightengale’s musings aside, the…
"I have this strange feeling of…deja-vu…" "I have this strange feeling of…deja-vu…" "I have this strange feeling of…deja-vu…" Only on "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" could this happen. Or maybe at Wrigley Field, where the worries about Kerry Wood‘s health are constant. Two weeks ago, ominous creaking sounds began to emanate from Wood’s right shoulder. At…
Not too many guys who convert from the infield to the mound make it to the majors. Even fewer make it in just their fourth pro season. But Bob File, a third baseman and shortstop at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences (a Division II school), has a great arm and has learned how…