Title: A Detailed E-Mail Exchange About LeBron and The Heat
Date: July 10, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: My friend Trev and I had a lengthy email exchange following The Decision. The conversation spanned over 5000 words and, needless to say, we didn’t reflect too kindly on the Super-Powers/Big Three arrangement the Heatles had crafted.
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Title: Someone Shut Marshall Faulk Up and Get Chris Johnson a Contract
Date: May 18, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: With Running Back Chris Johnson holding out for a larger contract, ex-NFLer Marshall Faulk had his back and encouraged a prolonged hold out. As a heavily-invested fantasy owner of CJ2K, I pleaded with Faulk to kindly shut his mouth.
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Title: So, Uhhh, Remember Alex Rios?
Date: May 17, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: A year after the jays had let Alex Rios walk to the White Sox via waivers, I took a look at Rios’ hot start to the 2010 season to show that, while grossly overpaid, he had resurfaced as a valuable baseball player.
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Title: How to Split the Playing Time When E5 Returns
Date: May 14, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: After another lapse in articles, I returned to take a look at how the Jays’ playing time should break down with Encarnacion, Bautista, Snider, and Lewis all battling for at bats. Looking back, this is one of those “looks good, looks bad” pieces since Edwin is now a legitimate slugger, but I seriously underestimated Bautista’s ability to maintain his hot start beyond a platoon role.
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Title: 47/82 of What We’ll Know: We Suck Again
Date: January 14, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Keeping with the 1/82 theme intermittently reviewing the Leafs’ season, I concluded what many had concluded 47 games earlier – that the Leafs were very bad.
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Title: Geoff Frigault Owns Asiago Dip, Chefs Everywhere
Date: January 11, 2010
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: After a month off from writing over the holidays, I returned to write about…food? This article was a joke, but he really did make the hell out of that dip.
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Title: How Steve Nash Stole Christmas
Date: December 8, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Another basketball blog had created Steve Nash Internet Day, and I participated by remembering the Raptors/Suns game from just after Christmas 2006 (January 2007), when Steve Nash single-handedly defeated the Raptors after receiving the Canadian Male Athlete of the Year Award.
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Title: 26/82 of What We’ll Know: Assymptotic to the Playoffs and Some Love for Matt Stajan
Date: December 2, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Keeping with the 1/82 theme, I tried to get optimistic about a better November for the Leafs…wait, I was optimistic after a 5-5-3 month IMPROVED on a 1-7-4 October? No wonder these 1/82 segments were sporadic. I also give some love for Matt Stajan, which is unintentionally hilarious in retrospect.
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Title: The Future Potential of Cybex Testing
Date: November 30, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: I fancied myself a scientist for a day, I suppose, and took a look at a sports medicine innovation that is a bit over my head. Cybex Testing is a form of muscle and joint analysis, and this article looked at a few studies on its potential and how it could help the sports industry.
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Title: 18/82 of What We’ll Know: Shifting the November Focus, and a Live Kadri Scouting Report
Date: November 16, 2009
Original Source: The On Deck Circle
Synopsis: Keeping with the 1/82 theme, I reviewed my up-close look at Leafs’ prospect Nazem Kadri, who I took a trip down the street to the Kitchener Auditorium to see in action with his London Knights.
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