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Inside Baseball Thursday Night

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This week (1/18) Inside Baseball will originate live from the Warehouse at 4th and Webster in Oakland beginning at 6 PM airing on 1550 am KYCY in the Bay Area. Ken Korach, A’s manager Bob Geren, and Susan Slusser will join me via telephone. The Rangers hope Sammy Sosa will be their 2007 version of Frank Thomas. How do you like Carlos Zambrano asking for 15.5 million in salary arbitration? Guess we know what sort of money he will be looking for next winter. [Read more →]

January 17, 2007   No Comments

Winter Edition Inside Baseball 01/11/07

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Inside Baseball with Marty Lurie – Hall of fame: Will McGwire ever make it to the Hall?, Bonds: Testing Positive? Piazza: Will he have the impact Frank Thomas had?

Segment one : Marty & Ken Korach
Segment two : Marty & New York Vinnie (Seattle)
Segment three : Marty & Vince Cotroneo
Segment four : Marty & Callers: Curt from Fairfield [Read more →]

January 16, 2007   No Comments

Inside Baseball This Thursday Night

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This week Inside Baseball the winter version will originate from Crogans Montclair beginning at 6 PM Pacific Thursday heard on 1550 AM in the Bay Area. We will also post the show on the site following the broadcast. Guests include A’s broadcasters Ken Korach and Vince Cotroneo, New York Vinnie, a very entertaining talk show host from Seattle, and the Chronicle’s Susan Slusser. We will talk about the Hall of Fame balloting, Barry Zito, and possible off season moves still on the horizon. See you there, Marty. [Read more →]

January 9, 2007   No Comments

Minority Managers

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As we look at the NBA and the NFL we can clearly see the growing percentage of minority coaches and people in decision making jobs. However,at the start of 2007 the same cannot be said about Major League Baseball. [Read more →]

January 8, 2007   No Comments

The Era of Extravagant Mediocrity

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The Era of Extravagant Mediocrity
Rick Kaplan
Staff Writer
OAKLAND (January 6) – Twinkle, twinkle ANY star, how I wonder where you are.
Once upon a time, free agency was synonymous with names that sizzled, like Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson. But those names and skills faded. At the same time, credible advance scouting mysteriously disappeared from front offices throughout major league baseball.
Suddenly, anonymity, profound ordinariness, and–most strangely–durability seemed to come to define the standards for pursuing free agents, especially pitchers.
Following the 2005 season, Oakland GM Billy Beane signed Esteban Loaiza, an eleven year veteran with a career .500 W/L and 4.60 ERA– and, most importantly, a ‘workhorse’ who presumably could be depended on for 200 innings, until, that is, he spent more than a month on the DL for the A’s–to a three year, $22 million deal.

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January 8, 2007   No Comments

Barry Bonds is only one of three

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I don’t know anybody that can predict the future, although once Giants manager Roger Craig said prior to the 1988 Playoffs; "don’t ever bet against the Dodgers pitching and Kirk Gibson" later I witnessed in Dodger Stadium the home run by Kirk Gibson that beat the Oakland Athletics in the first game of that World Series and also Orel Hershiser win the MVP of that classic. Roger:Humm Baby" Craig was 100X100 correct. If we could all predict the future in this business like Craig did prior to the 1988 playoffs we will all be wise men. [Read more →]

January 4, 2007   No Comments

Winter Edition Inside Baseball 01/03/07

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Inside Baseball with Marty Lurie – Key player Loses: Will the A’s miss Thomas, Zito, How good will Piazza be?, Barry Zito: Good pick up for the Giants? , Joe Blanton: Trade bait?

Segment one : Marty & Ken Korach
Segment two : Marty & Ken Korach
Segment three : Marty & Tyler Bleszinski
Segment four : Marty & Glen Dickey [Read more →]

January 3, 2007   No Comments

A message from Marty on January 1, 2007

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Click here to listen to Marty’s New Year Greeting, plus a preview of the Winter edition shows of Inside Baseball coming up on 1550AM KYCY/KYOU. [Read more →]

January 1, 2007   No Comments

Inside Baseball The Winter Version Returns on Janaury 3rd, 2007

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January 3rd, 2007 will mark the return of Inside Baseball the winter version to the airwaves. The first show will begin at 5:30 PM Pacific on 1550 AM KYCY heard throughout Northern California. Starting the following week the show will air each Thursday for 70 minutes, beginning immediately prior to the start of each Cal Men’s basketball pre game show. Glenn Dickey will join me on Janaury 3rd with other baseball guests as well. If all goes well Raf will also post the show here on the site immediately after its conclusion. Other guests during the winter will include baseball writers, broadcasters Ken Korach and Vince Cotroneo, players, coaches, and managers. The show will run through Feb 22nd. I’ll let you know the various locations I’ll be broadcasting from in the Bay Area. The first show is coming live from Arizona.Have a safe Happy New Year and I look forward to 2007 very much as we celebrate the 10th consecutive year of Right Off The Bat, the longest running pre game baseball show in Bay Area radio history. Thanks for all your enthusiastic support,Marty Lurie

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December 30, 2006   No Comments

Barry Zito a late Christmas present

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It was not until Thursday the 28th day of December 2006 that Santa Claus made a late stop at Giants fans with a huge 7-year $126 million contract and Barry Zito will not have not move from his residence in San Francisco, he will pitch just a few minutes away at ATT Park in 2007. [Read more →]

December 29, 2006   No Comments

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