21) How many days into the season until Mariano Rivera blows a save that kicks off ESPN’s first “has Mariano Rivera lost it” story.
Mike Hulse: 7, no more, no less. ESPN loves this story. It’s also a waste of time. If you’d like to know what Mo’s gonna do, here [...]
11) What was the best free-agent acquisition (note, this does NOT count the Santana deal, which was a trade)
Eugene Tierney: My favorites have been the low risk/high reward moves: Bartolo Colon signing a minor league deal with Boston could be huge with Schilling going down. He provides insurance if Lester or Buchholz aren’t [...]
Welcome back to 25 Questions Until Opening Day 2008.
6) What team is most improved over last year?
Aaron Cameron: Last year, I picked the Diamondbacks to win the NL West and lose in the NLCS way before anyone else got on board the bandwagon. This year, their awesome young roster has an additional year’s worth [...]
Two years ago, Aaron Cameron, Mike Hulse, and Thomas Daniels did a pre-season feature called 25 Questions Until Opening Day. As it turned out, it didn’t suck and generated more e-mail than most of the other baseball related things we did that year. As it also turned out, Cam nailed the World Series winner that [...]