Dan Connolly
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Gaston's return to Jays revives '93 All-Star flap
June 29, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from last week in Major League Baseball.
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A slew of early exits for Bedard, Seattle
June 22, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from last week in Major League Baseball.
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A sitting ovation for Tejada
June 18, 2008
Surrounded by media in the visitors' clubhouse yesterday, Miguel Tejada said he hadn't really thought about how the Camden Yards crowd would react when he first stepped to the plate in a Houston Astros uniform.
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Shoulder injury leaves Smoltz in limbo
June 15, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from last week in Major League Baseball.
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Orioles' Jones has found a Twin in Gomez
June 8, 2008
Last month, a Boston reporter sat down with Minnesota Twins center fielder Carlos Gomez and asked him what he thought of Jacoby Ellsbury, whom the writer assumed Gomez would often be compared to.
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There's more to Ramirez than homers
June 1, 2008
We know all about the dreadlocks and the baggy pants.
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AL East unmatched in majors
June 1, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from this week in Major League Baseball.
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Piazza might catch break in bid for Hall
May 25, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from this week in Major League Baseball.
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First-quarter trends: Will they last?
May 18, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from the week in Major League Baseball:
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Floyd finally finds footing
May 11, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from the week in Major League Baseball.
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Right where they left off
May 4, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from the week in major league baseball:
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In free agency, it's better to balk at pitchers
April 27, 2008
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Tejada was better Oriole than many thought
April 20, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from the week in Major League Baseball:
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Bedard's pain shows O's made right move
April 13, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from the week in Major League Baseball.
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Sweet music to Orioles' ears
April 7, 2008
If something seemed like it was missing at Camden Yards last week, you deserve points for your observational skills.
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Global success foreign to O's
April 6, 2008
Observations, opinions and musings from this week in major league baseball.
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Latest O's blow hardest to accept
December 18, 2007
Orioles fans can seemingly take anything and keep coming back for more.
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To even the youngest O's fans, Hagy was part of the magic
August 21, 2007
If you went to any youth baseball game in or around Baltimore in the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, there were certain things you were sure to see.
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Connolly: Teixeira can go home again, but that's not to Baltimore
August 5, 2007
When it was announced that the Atlanta Braves acquired first baseman Mark Teixeira for a rookie and four prospects, some frustrated Orioles fans spewed venom on Internet message boards and sports talk shows.
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Connolly: Talking Ripken
July 29, 2007
Since 2001, my first year covering the Orioles and Cal Ripken Jr.'s final year playing for them, I've probably written tens of thousands of words about Aberdeen's favorite son. Now, as No. 8 officially joins the sport's other immortals in the Baseball Hall of Fame, writing again about Ripken seems unavoidable.
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