Author Archives: Paul Francis Sullivan
Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 11, 2014
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It may not be The Sunday Request, but I feel obliged to address a Twitter reader of mine on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast. Read the rest of this entry
The Rudy May Interviews on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast
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Last week, I had a wonderful time interviewing former big league left hander Rudy May on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
He was a generous, funny and entertaining man to interview and we probably could have talked for another hour.
I decided to put all three parts of our interview on 1 page. Read the rest of this entry
Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 10, 2014
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On today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I take a quick glimpse at the Face of Baseball off season competition.
It doesn’t really interest me, but some people are really getting into it. I support anything that gets people talking about baseball in the off season. But I also believe it illustrates the need to start the season with the All Star Game.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 9, 2014
Baseball Hall of Fame
It is The Sunday Request on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast
@sullybaseball Sunday request: should baseball writers now be applying a moral filter to HOF votes when they didn’t for guys like T. Yawkey?
— Kenny Mack (@KennyMack1) February 1, 2014
Pushing my buttons as only a friend can do, Kenny knows that Tom Yawkey in the Hall of Fame is more offensive than any juicer.
But are performing enhancing drugs even the biggest shame in Baseball history?
I argue they don’t even earn the Bronze medal.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 7, 2014
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Today on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I pay tribute to two men.
Curt Schilling played the role of the villain in baseball perfectly.
Ralph Kiner lived a full baseball life and was my connection to many facets of the past that are now gone.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 5, 2014
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Today on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I am joined by former big league pitcher Rudy May.
Rudy pitched for 16 seasons in the big leagues along side many future Hall of Famers and for some of the best managers in baseball history.
In part one of our conversation, we discuss his days with the Montreal Expos and the Baltimore Orioles. He relays stories about pitching for the great Earl Weaver and knocking down Lou Brock on “Lou Brock Day” in St. Louis.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 4, 2014
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Don Mattingly might be batting Yasiel Puig in the leadoff spot. I think it is a great idea and could mean a change in attitude that I completely embrace.
Talking lead off hitting on this episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 3, 2014
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It is the Post Super Bowl edition of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
Seattle fans have a lot to cheer about and the Mariners are off the hook. Denver fans won’t get much hope from the Rockies
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 2, 2014
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It is The Sunday Request on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
Why is it that post-season success & championships are much greater factors when evaluating NFL players vs MLB players?
— High Heat Stats (@HighHeatStats) February 2, 2014
It is harder to use stats to evaluate the worth of an NFL player compared to a baseball player. Perhaps “counting the rings” is more relevant for that reason.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – February 1, 2014
Today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast was recorded at San Jose Minetta Airport. Always an ideal place for podcast sound.
I bought the Sporting News Baseball Preview and came to the conclusion that the White Sox might have a trick or two up their sleeves.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 31, 2014
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In 2019, Michael Young will be eligible for the Hall of Fame.
He will have detractors and supporters as his candidacy falls somewhere in “on the bubble” territory.
The debate will be endless, like the Jack Morris back and forth. But that will be a welcome distraction from the never ending Steroid controversy in Cooperstown.
That and more on today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 30, 2014
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Where should Joey Votto bat? Is he a #3 hitter? Is he a #2 hitter?
Today on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I ask the obvious question: Why isn’t Joey Votto the lead off hitter for the Cincinnati Reds??
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 29, 2014
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David Ortiz wants an extension with the Boston Red Sox?
That’s nice, but he has clearly mistaken the Red Sox with a sentimental team.
That’s the topic for today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 28, 2014
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On today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast I pay tribute to Bill White on his birthday.
A great player, broadcaster and executive, Mr. White is living about as complete a baseball life as anyone could hope for.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 27, 2014
This poster of the Pittsburgh Crawfords’ great team made me think about how far we have come in the integration of baseball. And yet there are still some barriers that need to be broken.
We’ve seen today’s answer to Oscar Charleston and Josh Gibson make the majors.
Smithsonian
What about today’s Jackie Mitchell?
Who? That answer and more and more on today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 26, 2014
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It is The Sunday Request on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
@sullybaseball Is it ok to root for a team to fail?
— Dave Keener (@DaveKeeners) January 24, 2014
It may seem counter productive and sacrilegious, but sometimes wanting your club to fall on its face isn’t such a bad thing. But the circumstances have to be right.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 25, 2014
Today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast is a bit of a grab bag.
I talk a little about Taijuan Walker, James Paxton and a strange way I propose the Mariners should use them.
And I quote haiku master Masaoka Shiki… like you do.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 24, 2014
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Greg Maddux… people will remember you as a Brave… not a Cub.
Maybe that’s why I picked a picture of you pitching as a Dodger for the website.
Writers… a unanimous Hall of Fame vote is NOT a vote for best player of all time.
That and a few other things have my goat on today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 23, 2014
Blogger, writer and podcaster Bernadette Pasley, is my guest on today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
She is the host of the Yankee based blog and podcast Lady at the Bat.
We talked about the Tanaka signing and all other things Yankees.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 23, 2014
Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 22, 2014
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They are naming the new award for baseball leadership after Bud Selig?
Why not also name the relief pitcher award for Armando Benitez?
Am I on Earth?
I try to figure that out on today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 21, 2014
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Today on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I discuss bias and impartiality.
@sullybaseball no thanks. Plenty of other stuff to do with my day than to listen to some biased nobodies talk shit about the angels.
— Michael Reed (@mikeareed34) January 8, 2014
Being called biased kind of hurt. I will never be impartial, but my impartiality will be tempered by a lack of bias.
Does that make sense?
I hope so.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 20, 2014
Baseball Hall of Fame
On Dr. King’s day, I discuss segregation in baseball and why that was worse than any PED scandal.
Plus a Sully Baseball Daily Podcast salute to Oscar Charleston.
If you hear that name and ask “Who?”, then that is truly the tragedy of a segregated game.
My post “A Dream Team for Dr. King” can be read HERE.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 19, 2014
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It is time for THE SUNDAY REQUEST on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
@sullybaseball The money is fine but would you give 7 years to a pitcher?
— Bob Buscaglia (@BobBuscaglia) January 16, 2014
Usually I would NEVER give a seven year contract to a pitcher, but Clayton Kershaw is not your usual pitcher.
I think the contract is justified. Listen in to find out why.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 18, 2014
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Rewatching Game 4 of the 1989 World Series made me realize how influential Tony LaRussa was.
Whether it was the bullpen, the steroid era or waiver wire deals, LaRussa’s paths can be felt to this very day.
Sounds like a topic for The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast to me!
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 17, 2014
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Big league baseball is going to be expanding use of instant replay.
It will take no reviewing from me to see that this is a terrific things for baseball. Will it fix EVERYTHING all at once?
Of course not. But it is progress.
All that and more on today’s episode of The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
Here is the video that my wife and I made a few years ago on the subject.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 17, 2014
Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 16, 2014
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Oscar nominations came out and another obsession of mine is touched upon during The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
This year’s Oscar race could be wide open, much like the 2014 American League.
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 15, 2014
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Today on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast… more A-Rod.
Am I supposed to IGNORE Alex Rodriguez? No, but maybe I need to stop intellectually defending him.
Also a comparing and contrasting A-Rod and LeBron
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 14, 2014
Today on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I examine an intriguing “What If?” scenario.
50 years ago, the Kansas City A’s almost became the Louisville Athletics (or Kentucky Colonels.)
If the A’s developed in their new home with the same players who blossomed in the 1970’s, how would baseball have been different?
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 13, 2014
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Today on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast, I give thanks to Jose Canseco.
No really, I do.
If he didn’t write that book and expose the steroid era, we could have a bigger Hall of Fame fiasco than we do now.
Sick of the talk about not voting in juicers?
Imagine the cry to kick them out after they were voted in!
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Sully Baseball Daily Podcast – January 12, 2014
It is the SUNDAY REQUEST on The Sully Baseball Daily Podcast.
@sullybaseball Not sure if you’ve done this before: Greatest team (single season or organization) never to win a World Series.
— Tony (@tony_f70) January 11, 2014
Lots of great teams missed out on winning it all, but few as perplexing as the Blue Jays of the late 1980’s.
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