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By Gary Armida, Sr.
In this age of steroids, astronomical salaries and contracts, I came across an item that really made me appreciate my love of baseball. The item came out of our local newspaper and is now hanging on the wall in my home office. The article told the story of a local baseball player, [...]

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By Gary Armida, Owner and Executive Editor
It gives me great pleasure to introduce a new column to the fullcountpitch.com family. The column, The Crafty Veteran, will be written by my Father, Gary Armida, Sr. He will check in from time to time with his thoughts about the game of baseball.

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By Gary Armida
Originally, I was going to skip the normal Friday Fungos column and write a sort of “I told you so” column about Joba Chamberlain and the Yankees. I told Mr. Harry Doyle himself, Bill Campione, at our Thursday staff meeting that I was trying hard to resist such a column. Well, Camp said [...]

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By Bill Campione
This past weekend, Newsday’s Neil Best reported that the groundbreaking sportstalk radio duo of Mike and the Mad Dog (Mike Francesa and Chris Russo, or Fatso and Fruit Loops, as they were dubbed by Don Imus) could be ending their 19 year on air relationship as soon as Labor Day. Channeling Harry Doyle [...]

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By Gary Armida
Last week, we examined the disaster that is JP Ricciardi and the Toronto Blue Jays. This week, we’ll examine what a successful general manager does, even if he follows the same principles that Ricciardi is said to be following. When looking through the Moneyball type GMs in baseball today, it was important to [...]

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By Gary Armida
On most nights, I am like any other red-blooded close to middle aged (damn, did I just say middle aged?) male. I have the clicker in my hand and I am channel surfing. Most times, I am surfing throughout the many different games on the tube. Last night was a different story. With [...]

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By Gary Armida
The 2008 baseball season is already memorable for a variety of reasons. Fans have been treated to great exploits on the field like Jr.’s 600th homer and Manny’s 500th homer. There’s already been a no-hitter thrown courtesy of Jon Lester. Teams like the Rays and Marlins find themselves in the thick of the [...]

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By Gary Armida
You know how they say that when you make a copy of a copy it comes out poorly? If you had trouble with that opening question, think about the underrated Michael Keaton movie Multiplicity when the third clone is made from the second clone. Well, that expression holds water in the world of [...]

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