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Michael Vick Would Add Intrigue to Pittsburgh Steelers

Being a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers definitely has its advantages. You know your team will be highly skilled and competitive each season. You know the basic style of play your team will employ...

Written by Barry Beal about 3 months ago 82 reads 6 comments
Barack Obama As Baseball's Commissioner

Driving home yesterday, the latest news of the presidential election came on the radio. As exciting as economic and health care policies are, I got to thinking about baseball. Commissioner Bud Selig is always under a lot of scrutiny, I thought...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 133 reads 0 comments
Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 8

Yesterday’s Picks Dan Uggla, Florida Marlins – DNP Michael Young, Texas Rangers – 1-5 Tuesday, July 8—Picks lock at 7:00 Eastern Ian Kinsler, Texas Rangers As President of the Ian ...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 238 reads 0 comments
Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 7

Fresh off a holiday weekend, we can’t let our hitting streaks take a vacation on MLB.com Beat the Streak. The leader had his streak stopped at 48 games last week. Think about that. He was nine days away from winning $1 million...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 308 reads 0 comments
Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 4-6

I hope everybody has a wonderful Independence Day! For the past 232 years, the United States has had countless men and women fight for maintain what the Fourth of July has come to signify: our freedom...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 604 reads 1 comments
Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 3

Today’s selections are a tad bittersweet. They seem to be good picks because both guys are murdering Carlos Silva, the starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners today against the Detroit Tigers...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 500 reads 0 comments
Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 2

A player on MLB.com Beat the Streak currently has a 46-game hitting streak. That means he's just 11 days away from winning $1 million. My current hitting streak is at two. Maybe he should be the one giving me advice on Bleacher Report...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 447 reads 0 comments
2008: The Baseball Season That Will End the World

The Rays are in first place. Obviously, the world’s coming to an end. You knew it had to be too good to be true that the New York teams were struggling to stay in contention as we enter July...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 434 reads 7 comments
Beat the Streak: July 1

Yesterday’s Picks Brandon Phillips, Cincinnati Reds – 2-4 Juan Pierre, Los Angeles Dodgers – DNP Tuesday, July 1 – Picks lock at 6:55 p.m...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 227 reads 0 comments
Beat the Streak: June 30

I hate technical problems. It's just after 3 PM, and I've been having trouble with the wireless internet. It's funny how much trouble technology causes us...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 175 reads 0 comments
Beat the Streak: June 28-29

As you may or may not know, I am a gigantic Pittsburgh Pirates’ fan. I had the chance to attend the Bucs’ game against the Yankees Tuesday night at PNC Park. In front of a full house, the Pirates blistered the Yankees for 12 runs on 19 hits...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 274 reads 0 comments
Beat the Streak: June 27

It’s always better to look at the glass as half-full. Yesterday, I said Carl Crawford would get five plate appearances. He did. I also said he would get at least one hit. He didn’t...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 181 reads 0 comments
Beat the Streak: June 26

Not a bad way to start this little picking game. It’s always nice to read the crawl on ESPN and see your guys doing well. It kind of reminds me of fantasy football season, which is right around the corner...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 177 reads 1 comments
Beat the Streak: June 25

Want to win $1 million? If you stick with me, you can have it by late August. Who says there’s no such thing as easy money? MLB.com’s fantasy game, Beat the Streak, gives fans a chance to pick one player a day to get a hit...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 237 reads 0 comments
The Objectivity of Fans

You’re sitting at the ballgame with some friends, or you’re watching it on TV at a bar or a friend’s house...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 161 reads 2 comments
Father's Day is a Baseball Day

Happy Father’s Day. I know that it’s a day early, but for the real day I’ll be with Dad at a baseball game. Throughout my life, it seems that baseball was always followed closely by Dad, and vice versa...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 238 reads 0 comments
Five Simple Reasons Why the Cleveland Browns are the NFL's Worst Franchise

After seeing Cleveland-Browns-Are-the-NFL-s-Best-Franchise--010608">this article on the NFL page here at Bleacher Report, it was almost too easy for me to refute that argument...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 774 reads 11 comments
Stanley Cup Finals: Penguins' Improvements Lead to Win

The Pittsburgh Penguins managed to get back into the Stanley Cup Finals Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 399 reads 0 comments
Pittsburgh Penguins: A Well-Deserved Vacation

The Penguins dispatched the Ottawa Senators with such ease in their Eastern Conference quarterfinals series that the team is in the midst of a week-plus of vacation time...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 694 reads 1 comments
Pittsburgh Pirates: Allergic to Leather

The Pirates are 7-11 heading into tonight’s game with the Florida Marlins. To paraphrase Bull Durham: “How did we ever win seven?”“It’s a miracle...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 657 reads 1 comments
Pittsburgh Pirates: Whew!

The Pittsburgh Pirates won last night, 12-11 in 12 innings. While that may seem like a standard line on a news report, it turned out to be much more than that. For better and for worse, this was unlike any Opening Day the Pittsburgh Pirates have ever had.

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 476 reads 0 comments
MLB Opening Day: Welcome Back, Baseball

Baseball is back today. I know that we had the Braves and Nationals last night and some random games in Japan last week. But baseball is back today and every single day for the next six months...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 644 reads 2 comments
The First Federal Penitentiary League Draft

ESPN is always looking to expand its programming options to viewers, so here is a taste of what we may see should athletes continue to behave poorly. Chris Berman: Welcome back to the 2008 Federal Penitentiary League Draft...

Written by Barry Beal about about 1 year ago 555 reads 0 comments

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Barry Beal Article Archive

Michael Vick Would Add Intrigue to Pittsburgh Steelers

Barack Obama As Baseball's Commissioner

Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 8

Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 7

Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 4-6

Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 3

Fantasy Baseball: Beat the Streak, July 2

2008: The Baseball Season That Will End the World

Beat the Streak: July 1

Beat the Streak: June 30

Beat the Streak: June 28-29

Beat the Streak: June 27

Beat the Streak: June 26

Beat the Streak: June 25

The Objectivity of Fans

Father's Day is a Baseball Day

Five Simple Reasons Why the Cleveland Browns are the NFL's Worst Franchise

Stanley Cup Finals: Penguins' Improvements Lead to Win

Pittsburgh Penguins: A Well-Deserved Vacation

Pittsburgh Pirates: Allergic to Leather

Pittsburgh Pirates: Whew!

MLB Opening Day: Welcome Back, Baseball

The First Federal Penitentiary League Draft

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