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Vince Marotta

D-backs: It’s better to be lucky and good

Once upon a time, a time not that long ago, the Arizona Diamondbacks couldn’t catch a break. Bad luck, bad decisions, bad baseball. Just about every guy they kept with an extended contract was a waste of money. Just about every guy they traded blossomed. Brandon Webb happened. A.J. Hinch happened. Manny Ramirez in Dodger […]
12 years ago
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Vince Marotta

Is Manning in Cardinal red so far-fetched?

Everybody has at least one. Mine is George Michael’s “Freedom.” One song on your iPod that you’re embarrassed to own. One song that, when it blares out of your car stereo, up go the windows. When George belts out “I won’t let you down…I will not give you up” there is an internal acknowledgement; I […]
12 years ago
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Adam Green

In Coach Whiz we trust — again

Ken Whisenhunt recently told the Arizona Republic that the remarkable recovery by the Arizona Cardinals “builds equity….when you go through the pain of losing those games with all these young guys, and they understand now what they have to do in order to get out of it, that makes you stronger as a team.” It’s […]
12 years ago
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Carter Nacke

Four Down Territory: Cardinals in the hunt

Now when TV graphic lists the Arizona Cardinals as one of the teams “In the Hunt” for a playoff spot I won’t laugh it off. They are. Legitimately, miraculously, inexplicably, the Cardinals are in the hunt for an NFC playoff spot. You are now allowed to think about it. It’s probably only slightly less of […]
12 years ago
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Adam Green

Four Down Territory: Cards are a restaurant

Think of the Arizona Cardinals as a restaurant. For a couple of years now there has been very little about the place that you’d recommend to a friend. Lousy food, watered down drinks, inattentive service, bad location and on and on. The complaints to the management were numerous and vociferous. I’ll be honest…after that dish […]
13 years ago
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Adam Green

Four Down Territory: Too good to be true

The attractive woman that you think is looking at you from across the room……a bank statement that lists too much money in your account…..your slacker kid with straight A’s on a report card….the Arizona Cardinals with a 24-3 lead against the Ravens on the road…… Things that are too good to be true. It’s banter […]
13 years ago
Adam Green

Four Down Territory: Unhappy times vs. Steelers

The stands at University of Phoenix stadium looked like a large scale version of those hideous uniforms Maryland wore in that Labor Day game against Miami. A pukey combination of red, white, yellow and black. Follow @theAdamGreen
13 years ago
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Adam Green

Four Down Territory: Tivo a blessing, a curse for watching Cardinals

Tivo: It’s a blessing and a curse. A blessing because I was able to go to my son’s baseball tournament on Sunday and still watch the Cardinals game. A curse because…I was subsequently forced to watch the Cardinals game. In the old days of the VCR I could’ve blamed a bad tape or the blinking […]
13 years ago
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Adam Green

Predicting the Diamondbacks? Good luck

It’s a joke, right? Either that or the email was sent to the wrong guy because there is no way you’d seriously ask me to do this. It’s absurd. My homework assignment tonight from our webmaster/taskmaster is as follows: “With the Diamondbacks in the playoffs we figured it’d be fun (and a good idea) to […]
13 years ago
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Adam Green

Four Down Territory: Cardinals at Seahawks

Offense: Here’s what the Cardinals offense looked like after their 2nd quarter TD: Punt, interception, punt, punt, punt, punt, missed field goal, interception, end of game. The Cardinals converted three third-downs the entire game. If the offensive output was somewhere just slightly north of awful the Cards win this game. Kevin Kolb: In the first […]
13 years ago
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Adam Green

Four Down Territory: Cardinals at Redskins

On the one hand, if you look at the numbers, the Cardinals were lucky they didn’t get whacked the way they usually do when they jump a couple of time zones. On the other hand, if you were watching the game you know it was a game the Cardinals could have won……should have won. A […]
13 years ago
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Adam Green

Four Down Territory: Cardinals vs. Panthers

The anticipation on Sunday was like Christmas morning. What was waiting under the Cardinals tree, the football equivalent of the Red Ryder BB Gun or the bunny pajamas from Aunt Clara? Of course, it was a little bit of both in the Cardinals 28-21 win over the Panthers. It sure beat last year’s opener against […]
13 years ago
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Tyler Bassett

The decision was made for the Arizona Diamondbacks

Sometimes in life the decision gets made for you. The sushi place is packed, let’s go for pizza. Out of red cars? Blue it is. In both cases, if you really want sushi or really want a red car, you could go somewhere else and get it. Ultimately you ask the question. Can we live […]
13 years ago
Arizona Sports

No team has as much to gain or lose as the Arizona Cardinals

It made $168 million in its first weekend. In just three days, the new – and final – Harry Potter movie made $168 million here in the U.S. and nearly a half-billion worldwide. I was actually hoping to see some folks dressed up in the Harry Potter garb when I was at my Gilbert multiplex […]
13 years ago
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Arizona Sports

Odds are the Arizona Diamondbacks are better than we thought

The internet was buzzing on Wednesday with news of a leaked “The Dark Knight Rises” Batman trailer. No surprise, the Comic-Con types are amped up like impatient toddlers on Christmas Eve. Me? I just shrugged my shoulders for you on the internet. What’s the point of eating an appetizer for a meal that’s still a […]
13 years ago
Arizona Sports

MLB All-Star Jersey Scavenger Hunt

My task was simple: Bring the “flavor” of the All-Star Game to you. After walking around the Chase Field concourse for five minutes it wasn’t one flavor, it was the 31 flavors of Baskin Robbins. There were Red Sox jerseys, Yankees, Dodgers, Giants (lots of Giants), Brewers, Twins and, of course, the D-backs. It was […]
13 years ago
Carter Nacke

Cinderella skipping his ball at All-Star Game

Cinderella has decided she'd rather get some rest. Derek Jeter would have been the star of the show. The belle of the ball. A major chunk of Tuesday's All Star Game broadcast would have been devoted to him and his latest accomplishment: Membership in the 3,000 hit club.
13 years ago
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Arizona Sports

Wily Mo the latest in a long line of fads

At first it seemed like a great idea. Wily Mo Pena in the Home Run Derby. Bombing back in the bigs after two years of minor league exile. Playing for the host team. Why not? It’d be a hell of a show. It even had its own Twitter hashtag, #WilyMo4Derby. So while a deserving Ian […]
13 years ago
Tyler Bassett

So what if Taylor has an agenda. Is he right?

Who doesn’t love a good legal thriller? A riveting courtroom drama? I’ve watched enough movies like Presumed Innocent and The Insider and TV shows like L.A. Law and The Good Wife to know that one of the staples of the courtroom drama is how the lawyers will try to pick apart a witness. Not their […]
13 years ago
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Arizona Sports

Tap the breaks on Ike Taylor talk

Maybe I’m just in a surly, anti-Pittsburgh mood after hearing of a planned celebration in the Steel City for Dancing with the Stars winner Hines Ward. Or maybe I’m just being a contrarian. Tap the brakes a little bit on the talk the Cardinals should pursue Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor. To be fair, I was […]
13 years ago
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Tyler Bassett

Hoping D-backs get their moment and don’t get trumped by NFL

I don’t want to be picky here. I don’t want to be that guy who is dating a super model only to complain that she has man-hands. I don’t want to be that guy who gets a free fancy steak dinner, only to complain his baked potato wasn’t twice baked. Desperate to shed the NFL […]
13 years ago
Arizona Sports

The last eight drafts haven’t been pretty for Suns

Got a friend, let’s call him … Craig. Craig — grumpy that he wasted nine bucks — insists that Hangover 2 was a summer blockbuster bomb. Just for fun, and to be a pain in his backside, I looked it up. A movie that was filmed on a budget of $35 million has, to date, […]
13 years ago
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Tyler Bassett

Watch your golf, I’ll take baseball on Father’s Day

In front of us was the father who brought his three boys to the ballpark. One of them had allegedly spit in the Cold Stone ice cream that belonged to the youngest. While he pleaded his case to his dad, the accused only laughed. Next to him; a tug of war between a dad who […]
13 years ago
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Tyler Bassett

What was Nash thinking when Dirk won it all?

When it was over, I wondered why Dirk bolted at the end of the game, once again leaving the ESPN sideline reporter with a lonely look of abandonment. I wondered if Mark Cuban would emerge from his kingdom of quiet and start acting like….Mark Cuban. I wondered what David Stern was thinking about as he […]
13 years ago