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JAY DUNN: From the Phillie Phanatic to Fireworks to the Hot Pants Patrol, Bill Giles wanted to entertain (opens the original)
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Bill Giles died last week and every obituary I saw focused on the Phillie Phanatic. Giles is best remembered as the Phillies executive who, in 1978, oversaw the introduction of the sports world’s most famous mascot. But the obituaries shouldn’t have stopped there. Giles was the one who once hired a circus performer to walk a tight rope that was strung from one foul pole to the other. Giles is the one who introduced “Kiteman” and promised that on Opening Day he would fly from centerfield to home
JAY DUNN: Where do MLB’s end-of-season award races stand? AL MVP could still be up for grabs (opens the original)
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Only a few days ago the 2026 Most Valuable Player awards appeared to be hum-drum issues. It seemed clear that Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Cubs was going to win the National League hardware and Yordan Alvarez of the Astros would be the choice of the American League panel. In both cases the voting would likely be unanimous. Ooops, Things can change in a hurry, can’t they? They haven’t changed in the NL. Crow-Armstrong still looks like a cinch. But funny things are happening in the AL. Alvarez is ex
JAY DUNN: When it comes to ABS challenges, here’s who’s hot and who’s not (opens the original)
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This is a new statistic and the number is 5,068. At least that’s what it was after all games were completed on Tuesday. That’s the number of ball/strike calls that have been reversed by the ABS Challenge system. This is the first year of its use and already it has corrected more than five thousand erroneous ball/strike calls. I get that figure from a Web site called Baseball-Reference that does a remarkable job of breaking down the use and misuse of the system. According to Baseball-Reference, 9
JAY DUNN: Phillies powered through dog days of August in impressive fashion (opens the original)
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Sirius is the most prominent star in the northern hemisphere, and it reaches its brightest magnitude during the month of August. The ancient Egyptians called Sirius the “dog star,” and they called August the “dog days.” Roughly 3500 years later, somebody in baseball copied that name. Baseball people now routinely refer to August as the “dog days.” The term has nothing to do with astronomy. August is to a baseball player what Heartbreak Hill is to a Boston marathoner. The weather is usually hot a
JAY DUNN: When it comes to an MLB salary cap, there’s room for negotiation (opens the original)
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Do generals always try to fight the last war? Probably not, but some historians maintain it has happened frequently. Does the baseball union always negotiate the last deal? Probably not, but it appears to me that that’s what they want to do this time. The baseball union (The Major League Baseball Players Association) has always asserted that it will never accept a salary cap. Recent rhetoric would suggest that’s still its position. I don’t blame the players for resisting past attempts by the own
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