Ick's Corner

After 23 years Greg Maddux announced his retirement yesterday. He held his retirement press conference on the first day of the Major League Baseball winter meetings in Las Vegas. As always very soft spoken, and holding his composure. “I really just came out here today to say thank you,” he said in a ballroom at [...]

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This day in sports is brought to us by the Los Angeles Angels 1960 – Gene Autry and Bob Reynolds were granted the Los Angeles Angels baseball franchise by the American League. This previous day in sports is brought to us by Barry Sanders This day in history … Dec. 4, 1988: Oklahoma State’s Barry [...]

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The checkbooks are ready, the offers are starting to fly. Must mean its free agency time in major league baseball… As expected after his dominating performance as a member of the Brewers CC Sabathia is going to be expensive. The Yankees have already made a huge offer to help their struggling bullpen. There is a [...]

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Really no surprise on either manager selected as manager of the year. Lou Piniella led the Cubs to the leagues best record this year. This marks Piniella’s 3rd manager of the year award (1995 & 2001) Joe Maddon being selected as the AL manager of the year should be more like the *no shit* headline [...]

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Tim Lincecum was about the only bright spot for the San Francisco Giants this season. For his efforts he was named the NL Cy Young winner. 18-5 2.62 ERA Major League leading 265 strike outs

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