Category Archives: Michael Schwimer Blog

Baseballs Tradition: A Love-hate Relationship

Hopefully this post can keep your minds off the trade deadline for a little bit.

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The Pedro Experience

My weekly post will still be coming out on Tuesday, but I thought a few of you might want to read a first hand account on Pedro, so here it is.

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Mailbag: Instruction, Halladay, Brown, Lidge, and more…

Before I get started on this week’s entry, I would like to thank everyone for reading my blog and for your kind words.  As a result of your interest and participation in this blog, I have received many good questions.

Since I have received so many questions, I will devote this entry to answering some of them.  Also, in the future, please send your questions to me via email at x rather than posting your questions in the comments section of the blog.  This would be very much appreciated.

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The Daily Life

Before I get started, I would like to thank Phuture Phillies for giving me this opportunity to write this column. I have three reasons for creating this blog. First, I feel like very few people understand the life of a minor league ballplayer, and I wish to shed some light on the excitement and rigors this profession provides. Second, I believe the reason baseball thrives is because of its loyal fan base. I receive many emails, txts, etc from baseball fans. Unfortunately, they’re only so many hours in a day, and I believe this column will allow me to answer even more of your questions. Lastly, when people come up to me and ask me about life as a professional baseball player, in addition to answering their question, I can share with them this link to the column so they can learn even more about this life.

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