0 comments by Dave Tobener on 10/1/2014
The National League Wild Card game is about as pure as you can get: two teams with identical records, close to evenly matched on paper, fighting it out for the right to visit the nation’s capital. It may not match the back-and-forth excitement of last night’s crazy contest, but it should be a good game […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener on 9/25/2014
Look, baseball games are too long. That’s what everybody keeps saying, so it has to be true. They’re so long that Major League Baseball has put together a committee to figure out how to make them shorter. A committee! You know things are serious now. Baseball doesn’t mess around when it comes to their committees. […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener on 9/12/2014
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Buster Posey is carrying the San Francisco Giants towards October baseball. Stop me if you’ve heard this one, again: Posey is making a case for himself as National League MVP. If you find yourself reading NL MVP prediction articles, you’re likely reading about these four guys: Clayton Kershaw, […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener on 8/13/2014
Baseball’s non-waiver trade deadline gets all of the attention, but August trades can be just as interesting. Plus they’re more challenging to pull off, since players have to pass through waivers in order for a trade to be made. One might even make the case that August trades have more impact on the pennant race, […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener on 7/30/2014
Full disclosure: I’m a Seinfeld freak. I can recite episodes verbatim and I usually don’t have any problem using a line from the show to describe something happening in my every day life. It’s a gift. So as both a Seinfeld freak and a baseball freak, I’ve always enjoyed the episodes where the two intermingled. […]
0 comments by Dave Tobener on 7/15/2014
Ah, the trade deadline. One of the best times of the year for a baseball fan, when rampant speculation and crazy rumors flow like water every single day until July 31. Like Dolly Parton said, it’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it. And why not let it? Drive you crazy, that is. […]
