Dustin Pedroia is a great player. He’s the best second baseman in the American League without a doubt and is second in all of baseball to Philadelphia’s Chase Utley. But he’s not the MVP. In fact, when I looked at the candidates for the award, I placed the diminutive Red Sock no higher than fourth. [...]
Just a few things on my mind that aren’t really big enough to deserve their own individual posts today.
I have already aired my grievance over the NFL’s “Keep your here as long as we can,” rule which prevents the public from watching 1 p.m. games past 4:10 p.m., even if they’re headed to overtime or [...]
It’s really shaping up to be an interesting off-season in Major League Baseball. We’re coming off a year where a team won their first World Series in 20-something years over a former doormat who somehow looks like a potential dynasty. Both New York teams closed down their home fields without playoff appearances and an AL [...]
It was a game that finished about 50 hours after it started and it only lasted 9 innings. It took so long the Tampa Bay Rays were kicked out of the hotel rooms and had to drive to Dover to sleep in beds. And even though they had to wait that long to see how [...]
After blowing out the Rays last night, even getting a home run from their starting pitcher Joe Blanton, Tampa Bay doesn’t look like it has any hope of bringing the World Series back home for Games 6 or 7. Especially not with Cole Hamels starting tonight for the Phillies. The National League advantage and overall [...]
I know I completely missed out on writing about Games 1 and 2 of the World Series but this just happens to be one of the busiest times of the sports year. With the NFL really gearing up, the NBA set to launch plus the NHL underway and making bad decisions, it can be hard [...]
With Major League Baseball’s championship, the World Series, starting tonight in humble St. Petersburg, what better time would there be to breakdown the teams and give a prediction or two?
Starting pitchers: Cole Hamels is the best pitcher in this series and that shouldn’t even be debated. Behind him in Philadelphia’s rotation is sometimes good Brett [...]
The never-say-die Rays did it. I didn’t think they could come back after that stomach punch win (to steal a phrase from Bill Simmons) in Game 5, but they did it. They even looked pretty dead in the water for Game 6 but in Game 7, when both teams were all-in, everyone on the Rays [...]
How about the ending of that game? The Red Sox come back from down seven runs and possibly shift the momentum to their side heading into the weekend. Whether they play one game or two is still up to them though. I had completely written off the Sox after Tampa Bay jumped out 7-0 and [...]
The Dodgers played do-or-die baseball and they — unfortunately — tasted the latter of the proposition. Pulling starter Chad Billingsley, who had, in fairness, given up three runs in less than three innings and looked awful, was a move that basically said “all-in” for Los Angeles. They had to do something with their hand and [...]
