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The five-time All-Star didn’t shy away from sharing his thoughts on New York’s ending to last season.
As Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole reported to Tampa for 2023 MLB spring training on Thursday, he was very candid in his thoughts about the franchise being swept by the Astros in the ALCS to end the 2022 season.
“We got waxed,” Cole said. “So anytime you get waxed, it doesn’t feel good, whether you’re going to the salon or you’re on the baseball field.

Before his award-winning broadcasting career, he was a two-time World Series champion in St. Louis.

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Tim McCarver, a two-time World Series champion and All-Star catcher for the Cardinals and later, a Ford C. Frink Award recipient as a broadcaster, died Thursday, as first announced by the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was 81. 
McCarver’s career in baseball spanned 63 years and eight decades. As a catcher, he made his major league debut with the Cardinals in 1959, playing with the team through the ’69 season.

It has only been four days since the Super Bowl and the football season ended.
Yet, many addicted football fans already find themselves among the five stages of grief. I can hear them now:

DENIAL – “Isn’t there an all-star game of some type coming up?”
ANGER – “I can’t believe March Madness is still a month away. I will not watch baseball! I bet Tiger doesn’t even make the freakin’ cut at The Masters.”
BARGAINING – “Well, spring football is coming up soon, and there’s the draft. That’s the same thing, right?”
DEPRESSION – “Spring football is not football.

Skip Bayless has figured it out, he knows why there aren’t more black coaches in the NFL and why Eric Bieniemy has been stuck as the offensive coordinator in Kansas City all these years.
While you may have thought black coaches not being hired had something to do with qualifications, Bayless thinks it has everything to do with white team owners trying to get out of dinner reservations with coaches and their wives.
This is some big brain stuff from Mr. Bayless.