It wasn’t too long ago when it was certain that we’d see more than a handful of baseball players actually play entire seasons. The best guys would be out there every day and never breakdown.
When Matt Kemp sat on Monday with a hamstring strain (that landed him on the DL, much to my fantasy team’s [...]
Every year ESPN: The Magazine comes out with on the most interesting lists in sports – the highest-paid players list. They go into every athlete’s salary in every major sport – and some obscure sports – and tell us who made the most money just for competing. Sports Illustrated also does a similar annual list, [...]
Just in case you didn’t notice, the MLB regular season opened today. You might not have cared — unless you’re a fantasy MLB player or a Mariners or A’s fan — because the first pitch was around 6 a.m. this morning.
I could rant about starting the season in Japan while spring training is still going [...]
The Mariners are screwing up their 2012 season already. Camp hasn’t even started at they’re already messing with the one certainty of their batting lineup by moving Ichiro Suzuki to the third spot, away from his usual leadoff post.
Why in the world would they want to do that? Ichiro has hit leadoff since coming to [...]
I feel kind of bad for Yu Darvish. After about a week of being led to the believe that the Blue Jays would surely have the winning bid for the Japanese ace, it turns out that Texas had them trumped. So, poor Darvish now has the entire Blue Jays’ fan base rooting for him to [...]
Thanks to Major League Baseball’s vague interpretation of their highest individual award, a guy who played in just 21% of his teams was somehow deemed the most valuable in the league.
Let’s just get this straight to begin with. Justin Verlander is a great player and was the best pitcher in the American [...]
No rambling introduction today, folks, just wonderful picks – and we’re not just sticking to one sport either!
The home teams are in CAPS and the lines are from 5Dimes.
Detroit +1 over DALLAS
The Cowboys are still banged up and they failed to score a TD last week. Field goals won’t get it done against Detroit.
New Orleans [...]
I cannot remember the last time I was this excited about a five-minute window in sports. Last night’s regular-season finales between the Red Sox-Orioles and Yankees-Rays combined for what was simply just one of the best electrifying moments in recent sports history. If you were watching the ends to those games, [...]
Major League Baseball could have asked for a better regular-season finale than this. After 161 exhausting games, both the American and National Leagues have ties in their wild card races.
While they have the easiest path to the playoffs, facing the Baltimore Orioles on the last night of season, the Boston Red Sox freefall might be [...]
This is just plain getting out of hand. We’ve gotten to the point where 11% of baseball players on a MLB roster can claim that they were 2011 all-stars. Yes, this year, 84 players got the call to play in Phoenix.
Sure, there were injuries that kept people out and pitchers that started on Sunday were [...]
