• Gee, I thought this would have been bigger news. It's not every day -- or for that matter every decade -- that a batter is intentionally walked with the bases loaded. By my count, it's now happened five times: Nap Lajoie in 1901, Mel Ott in 1929, Bill "Swish" Nicholson in 1944, Barry Bonds in 1998, and now Josh Hamilton in 2008. Seems like sort of a big deal to me. • This item about Mariano Rivera's wild pitch in Friday night's loss reminds me of a certain blogger's certain book ...

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