Picking the best team in the American League in any season usually means deciding between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, but the Texas Rangers proved last year that surprises can happen. Here’s an AL 2011 preview. AL East The Red Sox are the darlings of a lot of prognosticators this year based on the … Read More
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MLB – National League Season Preview
The major league baseball season gets underway on Thursday, and after last season’s shocking World Series win by the San Francisco Giants, just about every team, not just the big spending high-rollers, have championship dreams going into the new year. Today we’ll preview the National League. NL East The Philadelphia Phillies would most likely have … Read More
MLB – Willie, Mickey and The Duke
Duke Snider Major League Baseball lost another of its’ major icons on Sunday when Edwin “Duke” Snider passed away at the age of 84. Snider was lucky enough to have played in what is considered baseball’s golden era of the 1940s and 1950s, in what was the hub of the sport at the time, … Read More
Remembering Bob Feller
Baseball lost one of it’s greatest players, and greatest ambassadors of the game, this week when Bob Feller passed away at the age of 92. Feller joined the Cleveland Indians in 1936 at the age of 17, and pitched for 18 seasons with the Tribe, anchoring one of the sport’s greatest starting pitching rotations ever. … Read More
MLB – Hot Stove Heats Up
Major league baseball’s “hot stove” league, the off-season period when trades and free agent signings dominate the news, is now in full swing. Baseball’s annual winter meetings, where team general managers get together to do business, is where most of the action takes place. The Boston Red Sox, trying to get back to the postseason, … Read More
MLB – Baseball’s Hot Stove League
Baseball’s annual general manager’s meetings are currently going on, and these meetings usually signal the beginning of the “hot stove league”, the period in the off-season that major league teams begin building their teams for the following season through free agent signings and trades. The first major trade of the meetings was announced yesterday, as the … Read More
MLB – R.I.P. Sparky Anderson
It’s always sad when one of the genuine good guys involved in the sporting world leaves us, and that’s the case with the news last week of the passing of George “Sparky” Anderson, former major league baseball manager, from complications of dementia. It had been announced on November 3rd that Anderson was being placed in … Read More
MLB – Giants Win The World Series
Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for winning the 2010 World Series! The Giants weren’t on anyone’s radar when it came to picking the best team in baseball before the season started, and had to go to the last week of the season before even qualifying for the playoffs. Then they caught lightning in a … Read More
MLB – World Series Preview
It’s rare when David slays Goliath twice in one week, but that’s what happened in baseball’s League Championship Series. In the American League, the Texas Rangers followed the tried and true formula for reaching the World Series – make sure Cliff Lee is in your starting rotation. Of course, the Rangers did much more than … Read More
MLB – Championship Series Surprises
There’s a cliche in sports that says that any team good enough to make it to a championship is capable of winning it also, but I’m betting there are a lot of people who are surprised at the results of both League Championship Series in baseball this year. The last 2 World Series winners are being … Read More