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 [...]
Well, we knew the guy was good, but record-shatteringly good? I had no clue! Especially in the popularity department.
Yes, Jose Bautista beat Ken Griffey Jr.’s record for all-star votes of 6.1 million by being selected on an unfathomable 7.4 million ballots. That’s not just besting an old mark, it’s completely destroying it. When [...]
After reading about ESPN’s “Ultimate Team Rankings” report naming Toronto the worst city in North American professional sports, I was actually put at a loss for words to defend my home town. I should have actually seen it coming. After all, isn’t the foreshadowing here a bit in the standings? Toronto [...]
Is there anything less built up or exciting in sports than the MLB draft? There’s very little hype, it happens during the season and if you’ve heard of more than four or five guys that get drafted, chances are you’re either a scout or involved in a seriously deep fantasy league.
This is nothing like any [...]
Being off for the long weekend, I haven’t had a chance to weigh in some pretty key events that have taken place and are currently going on in the world of sports. So, Let’s sum up some opinions from the nosebleeds, quick hits style.
THE NHL’S RETURN TO WINNIPEG
Well, it took you long enough. They’ll certainly [...]
