Vindication, that’s what Pedro should be gunning for at this point of his career.

Well, that’s what the Philadelphia Phillies are hoping for after they just signed the veteran for the remainder of the 2009 MLB baseball season. They just signed Martinez to a $1 million, one-year contract that can earn him up to $1.5 million in incentives and as far as the Phillies are concerned, they’re hoping he’s worth every penny.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner hasn’t pitched since last season with the New York Mets. He was miserable, to say the least, in his final two seasons in New York, winning only eight games in 25 starts. Still, that didn’t stop the Philadelphia Phillies from signing him up.

”Of course there’s some risk here. But we’d rather risk it on someone of his caliber and who knows how to win,” Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said of Pedro Martinez.

As for Pedro, he’s just happy that somebody gave him a second chance. He knows he’s no longer the same player he was a few years ago but he’s willing to find out just how good (or how bad…) he could end up to be this season.

”I might surprise you, I might not,” the 37-year-old Martinez said. ”It’s going to be really fun to go find out.”

”I don’t expect to be the same Pedro that I was when I was 26. There’s…”

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And while you probably wouldn’t give a flying fuck about it, at least we informed you about it.

That’s right, the 2009 MLB All-Star Game is set this Tuesday as the players fans voted in to play will hope they won’t make an ass of themselves like Brock Lesnar did over the weekend.

So who made the cut? Let’s start with the 2009 MLB National League All-Star starters. The NL team consists of catcher Yadier Molina of the St. Louis Cardinals, and top vote-getter Albert Pujols at first base.

And since Pujols was the leading vote-getter in balloting for the Midsummer Classic, he became the very first Cardinal to start an All-Star game in his home ballpark. ”It feels great to be there and represent the organization and the city you play in,” Albert Pujols said.

Albert Pujols is well on his way to another amazing year, leading the majors with 31 homers and 82 RBIs. He collected 5,397,374 votes to finish with the second-highest total in Major League history, trailing only Ken Griffey Jr.’s six million votes in 1994. Pujols has made the NL team eight times in nine seasons and will be making his sixth start.

The rest of the National League all star infield consists of…

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He has to, since he will be kicking off the Midsummer Classic in front of his hometown fans in St. Louis.

THAT is the kind of pressure top vote-getter Albert Pujols is in coming to the 2009 MLB All-Star festivities in St. Louis. Imagine this, he was just voted in by baseball fans the most, getting majority of the votes to play in the All-Star game. But before he can get to play the actual game, he has the 2009 MLB Home Run Derby to worry about first. And did I mention he has the entire town of St. Louis watching his every move?

There is no doubt that Albert Pujols will go for broke once the Midsummer Classic gets to St. Louis. The top vote-getter for the 2009 MLB All-Star Game will compete in his third Home Run Derby and while the last two were already great, this one should be more special since this will be the first time Pujols will perform in front of the Cardinals fans in Missouri.

There’s this one problem though.

In the 23 previous Home Run Derby contests, only one hometown favorite has hoisted a trophy at the end of the night. That was Ryne Sandberg back in 1990. But if there’s one guy who can win the Derby for his hometown, it’s Albert Pujols.

Other guys who’ll be competing against Pujols include Prince Fielder. Fielder is the first second generation player to be a Home Run Derby contestant. His father, Cecil Fielder competed back in the early 90s. He never won, which…

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You knew it wouldn’t last.

We had an article a few weeks back highlighting the most profitable teams in the 2009 MLB baseball season for bettors and one club that stood front and center was the Toronto Blue Jays. Not so much now.

The Los Angeles Dodgers were also a big part of that last column, but they’ve demonstrated some real staying power, even without the services of the suspended Manny. The Dodgers are still the most profitable team in all the majors.

The Dodgers are currently 18-5 at home, 16-10 on the road (34-15 overall) and when looking at their future odds at SPORTSBETTING.COM, they are now listed at -3000 to win the National League West, +250 to take the NL pennant and +500 to win the World Series.

Another surprise is the team that is the best money team in the American League.

As mentioned above, it’s not the Toronto Blue Jays, who have fallen back to earth, the Boston Red Sox or even the New York Yankees, the current top money team in the AL is…

Wait for it…

The Texas Rangers. The Rangers are 15-8 at home, 12-11 on the road and 27-19 overall and while…

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If they can, they might just give the guy back to Boston.

The Dodgers’ run for the World Series title in the 2009 MLB baseball season is in question with the huge loss of slugger Manny Ramirez.

The dreadlocked slugger was banished for 50 games when MLB found out that Ramirez had testosterone in his body that was not natural and came from an artificial source. Ramirez said he did not take steroids and was only given medication by a doctor that contained a substance he never taught was banned.

Of course, MLB heard that one before and eventually decided to suspend Manny Ramirez anyway. A person familiar with the details of the suspension said Ramirez used the female fertility drug HCG, or human chorionic gonadotropin.

Ramirez is batting .348 with six home runs and 20 RBIs through the first 27 games of the season. The Los Angeles Dodgers have bolted to a 21-8 record and a 13-0 mark at home that has set the modern major league record for a home winning streak to start a season.

That’s BEFORE everybody found out that Ramirez was taking female fertility drugs illegally.

And now that he’s out, the question would have to be on the Dodgers and if they can survive just long enough to make a run for the title. It’ll be awfully hard to do it without Ramirez but at this point, the Dodgers really don’t have much of a choice.

Ramirez was acquired by Los Angeles from Boston last July 31 and became…

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Baseball has already settled in and it’s time to determine where you can put some money on and win big.

One month into the baseball betting marathon that is the 2009 MLB baseball season, is behind us and there have been some surprises thus far. The latest one is of course Manny Ramirez being the latest guy to be linked to banned substances.

With that said, I know most of you won’t be wasting their time (and money) betting on the Dodgers since they’ll have a lot to figure out in the next few weeks with the fallout of the Manny Ramirez issue.

So, which team is the best ”money” team in baseball now? Some of you might say the Boston Red Sox are, while some will go with the Tampa Bay Rays. Well, NONE of them are ”money” teams. But if you’re looking for the best team to bet on, you can’t go wrong with the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Toronto Blue Jays are 20-10 overall with a profitable 11-4 record at home and a healthy 9-6 record on the road. A $100 a game bettor would have a profit of approximately $950 if they wagered on every Jay game this season so far (depending on the lines when they bet on Toronto).

Over / Under bettors can take note, the Jays have posted…

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You read it, FIFTY. That’s just crazy.

And the only thing that’ll get a guy suspended that long are banned substances. Guess what, Manny Ramirez just joined the club of drug junkies this 2009 MLB baseball season.

You read it, Manny Ramirez just joined the growing lineup of MLB stars linked to banned substances. Apparently, Ramirez claims he did not take steroids and was just prescribed by a doctor with some kind of medication that contains a banned substance. But then again, we’ve all heard that one before.

And since Ramirez probably knows that his remaining fans, as well as the supporters of the Los Angeles Dodgers, do know better, he’s apologizing for what he calls as, ”this whole situation” anyway.

”It’s a dark day for baseball and certainly for this organization,” Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti told reporters on the field at Dodger Stadium. ”This organization will never condone anything that isn’t clean.”

Yup, the guy probably said it best. However, this guy should’ve already realized that when he got Ramirez from the Boston Red Sox last season, he’s also getting all these fucked-up baggage that tags along with the star.

Tests undertaken by the league showed that Ramirez had testosterone in his body that was not natural and came from an artificial source…

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What?!?

This is when you know the 2009 MLB baseball season has already began putting people to sleep.

Yes, baseball season is here and while most of us are probably going to keep our asses at home playing video games until football season gets here, one dude went his way to sue the Chicago White Sox for, get this, giving away free t-shirts.

If you’re a sports fan living in Chicago then you’ve probably seen team employees firing free t-shirts into the crowd during White Sox or Bulls games, happening between innings at the U.S. Cellular or during timeouts at the United Center.

It’s the team’s way of saying thank you. Thank you for spending $150 during these terrible economic times just to be there, not to mention the $7 you burn for each beer and the $5 you throw away for nachos. To show you how much the team appreciates you, they give you the chance to out wrestle those next to you for a flying t-shirt that’s probably not going to fit you anyway.

One man from northwest Indiana doesn’t see it as the team’s way of showing their gratitude to the fans. He sees it as a team engaging in a dangerous activity, shooting free shirts as projectiles into…

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No, you can’t take Jeter.

Who is the better teammate in baseball, Manny Ramirez or Alex Rodriguez? Let’s take a look at the highlights of these players so to know who will serve as the better teammate this 2009 MLB baseball season.

First up we have Manny Ramirez, who recently signed a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers worth $45 million. Ramirez needed no introduction after leading the Dodgers to the 2008 National League West title by hitting .396 with 17 homers and 53 RBIs in 53 regular-season games. In the playoffs, he batted .520 with four homers, 10 RBIs, nine runs and 11 walks in eight games.

The Los Angeles Dodgers decided to make a big fuss over his arrival and Ramirez didn’t disappoint with a performance that would have played well in a Hollywood comedy club. The Dodgers also ended up with one of baseball’s most feared sluggers, a .314 career hitter with 527 home runs, 17th on the all-time list.

Next, we have Alex Rodriquez. Although he has been in hot seat for the past months with his issues on taking steroids, he is still a force to be reckon with in baseball. Looking at his career highlights, he established career-highs with 143 runs and 156 RBI while hitting .314 (183-for-583) with 54HR and 24SB in 158 games with the Yankees in 2007 (154 starts at third base, four starts at designated hitter).

The New York Yankees third baseman led the Majors in…

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In case you don’t know it yet, baseball is finally here.

That’s right, the brand new 2009 MLB baseball season is finally here. Isn’t that something?

Yes, amidst the controversy involving Alex Rodriguez and steroids, the situation between Manny Ramirez, the Dodgers and the Red Sox, and basically everything else that kept fans talking about baseball, the season is here and BetUS.com is right in the thick of it.

With the start of the brand new MLB regular season, baseball fans across the country are already speculating as to how their teams will perform. Will they win it all this year? How long until our coach gets fired? Will our clean-up hitter outperform the rest?

With this being the case, the largest most successful sportsbook on the web, (that’s according to them anyway…) BetUS.com, posted early season predictions on all things MLB to give fans some resemblance of what to expect.

”Despite the off-season turmoil that followed some of the game’s biggest stars, interest in America’s pastime is still alive and well,” stated BetUS.com spokesman Reed Richards.

”Fans are flooding our site for up to the minute predictions and prognostications. We’ve got everything from early World Series odds, to which coach will be fired first!”

Want to see these 2009 MLB baseball season betting odds they’re…

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