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The day I stopped watching MLB - Instant Replay

10:08 PM ET 08.30

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Okay, I am never going to stop watching MLB games but I just wanted to make a short blog on how instant replay is going to mess up baseball.It messed up football. If there is a questionable call, it's going to turn out to be the exactly right call. I don't like that, it's the fun of getting away with a bad call.Are the umpires still going to get paid as much? The MLB might want o give the umpires a decrease in pay. Umpires are supposed to call whatever they see, why bring technology into it?Not as much manager-umpire arguments now that home runs will be…

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Most Reliable Hitter in the League? Adam Dunn?

10:01 PM ET 08.30

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I was looking at the Sporting News website and it had the 10 most reliable hitters in the National League. I looked at it, it seemed like a pretty good list, I agreed with their opinion's in almost everything. I'm not sure if the players were in order but they could have bee. The longer I looked at it, I knew they were missing someone . . . Dunn, yes, Adam Dunn.Here are a look at Dunn's career stats (career averages): .247 Avg., 40 HR, 96 RBI, 180 SO, 9 SB I guess you could call that good hitting - he piles up a lot of strikeouts, hits for a low…

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What will happen in the Off-season . . .

10:35 PM ET 08.24

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I will discuss my take on what each team will do (or should do) during the off-season. I will definitely not get around to doing all 30 teams so if you want me to blog about your team, rquest in comments. Detroit TigersThey should try to model their off-season after the 2007-2008 Chicago White Sox's off-season. What the Tigers tried to do last off-season was to create the best softball team money can buy. In softball, you go out trying to get guys who can pound the ball. It's not that way in baseball. The Tigers need to get rid of two…

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