Archive for 'Baseball'

The Lesser of Two Evils

October 28th, 2009 – 11:44 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

This is what baseball has come down to. After 162 regular season games and two rounds of playoffs, we’re now left with the choice of a Phillies’ repeat or Steinbrenner’s $200 million Yankees. Both great teams, loaded with talent, but there’s not exactly a breath of fresh air here.
Last year, the Phillies were [...]

World Series Predictions

October 16th, 2009 – 9:01 am Posted by Greg Cote
Tagged as: Baseball, MLB

Wyatt, of WMG video fame, has gazed into his crystal ball (and seasonal baseball stats) in order to determine which teams will win the league championships and the World Series.
Do you agree? Share your predictions with us!
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MLB Divisional Series

October 12th, 2009 – 2:09 pm Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

The regular season is over.  After 162 games, most of the teams in Major League Baseball are packing up their things and heading off to their winter homes, dreams of next year dancing through their collective heads.
But for a few teams, the season moves on.  The Twins and the Tigers played a rare 163rd game [...]

The All-Star Game

July 21st, 2009 – 8:01 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

The American League won the All-Star game this year. Again. Just like last year and the year before and the year before and… well, let’s take a look at the last time the National League actually won the summer classic.
Picture it: Philadelphia, 1996. The National League wins the All-Star Game. Bill [...]

Baseball’s One Quarter Check-Up

May 27th, 2009 – 9:50 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Baseball, MLB

A month or so back, I wrote a post here about the triumphant return of Major League Baseball and the wonky statistics that we see in the first few weeks of the season. Now that the 2009 season is one-quarter of the way through, I thought it might be fun to check in on [...]

Baseball is Back!

April 21st, 2009 – 10:09 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe
Tagged as: Baseball, MLB

Baseball is back! It seems like it was years ago that the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Devil-less Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series. It was a long, hard winter without the sound of pine hitting leather, but the 2009 Major League Baseball season has begun anew.
I especially enjoy the first few [...]

One Brave Lost, One Sox Found

January 13th, 2009 – 11:04 am Posted by B Kenney
Tagged as: Baseball, MLB

John Smoltz, former pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, will no longer be a Brave. He has been traded to the Boston Red Sox, as of Thursday, January 8. Smoltz played for the Braves for his entire career so far and even commented that he felt he might be playing for them for the rest of [...]

The Devil Rays Rise From the Ashes

November 4th, 2008 – 10:41 am Posted by B Kenney
Tagged as: Baseball, MLB

In sports, teams often raise and sink, it is the way of the game. No one would be entertained if the same teams and players always won year after year. Seldom does it happen, however, that a team pulls out a winning streak from nowhere. The Tampa Bay Devils Ray did just that in [...]

The New Sports Plague, Steroids

October 21st, 2008 – 9:00 am Posted by B Kenney

“Breaking news story just in, more baseball players have been determined to be using a skill-enhancing drug called steroids!” My stance on the subject… who cares.
The media widely has been known to blow things substantially out of proportion, and this is certainly one of those cases. It can be argued for hours on end, one [...]

No Lead Is Safe: Following a History of Great Collapses

August 21st, 2008 – 4:15 am Posted by Jason Baudendistel
Tagged as: Baseball, Football, MLB

As we near only one month left in this year’s baseball season, the Chicago Cubs have what seems like an insurmountable lead in the NL Central race.
But is such a lead really safe? Has a team with a lead of 6 or more games collapsed and not even made the playoffs? In order to [...]