0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/30/2014
We’re seemingly seeing different players pop up on this list every week, and I think that’s a testament to just how good the players in this league are getting at fielding their positions. No longer do we have just one or two great defensive players per position – there are quite a few. Also, the […]
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Before Tuesday night’s Athletics-Astros game at Minute Maid Park, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T threw out the first pitch before the game. Ho-hum. Then, Astros mascot Orbit paid tribute to the wrestler by copying his signature move, the spinaroonie. Calling this “glorious” may be a slight understatement. Just for the hell of it, SBNation […]
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Oh, go ahead and look at who’s at the top of the NL West – it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers. LA is three games up on the Giants, and that three game lead is the second-largest of any division leader (behind just the Tigers in the AL Central). Just like the Nationals in the NL […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/29/2014
On Sunday, the Rays are giving away a Wil Myers bike horn to kids 14 and under. And quite frankly, it’s terrifying. The Rays are an organization that typically has very innovative and unique giveaways, and this is certainly one of them. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s freaking horrifying, though.
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Clayton Kershaw was a guest on Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. During a segment, Kimmel wanted Kershaw to throw a baseball at him to knock an apple off of his head. Kershaw eventually succeeded, but not before hilariously smashing Kimmel in the face.
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Calling this season in Boston a nightmare may be an understatement. The Red Sox shocked nearly everyone by winning the 2013 World Series, a year after losing 93 games and finishing in the cellar of the AL East for the first time in 20 years. After the club raced to 97 wins a year ago, […]
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I don’t think Miami is much of a contender in the National League for the final two months of this season. But quite frankly, if we’re going to keep calling the Reds a contender, the Marlins also deserve that attention. Miami has won five in a row and seven of eight over the past week. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/28/2014
Well, there weren’t a lot of walk offs this week, so we’re just going to have to take what we can get. Sorry, gang.
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Left for dead following an 11-23 stretch going into the All-Star Break, the Toronto Blue Jays have come out of the Break on fire. The Jays are 7-3 in their ten games in the second half, taking two out of three from the Rangers, three out of four from the reeling Red Sox, and two […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/27/2014
The Tampa Bay Rays are officially contenders in the American League – well, as much as they could be without being above .500. Tampa Bay beat Boston again on Saturday to win their ninth game in a row and move to just 6.5 games back in the AL East and only 3.5 games back of […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/26/2014
During Friday night’s game between the Birmingham Barons and Jacksonville Suns of the AA Southern League, a brawl resulted in six ejections. The chaos erupted in the top of the ninth inning, when Luis Sierra of the Barons hit an RBI single off of Suns pitcher Matt Ramsey. When Birmingham’s Jeremy Farrell crossed home plate, […]
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The San Francisco Giants have jumped into the trade market, acquiring Jake Peavy from the Boston Red Sox. Peavy has a 4.72 ERA in 124 innings this season with the Red Sox. Since posting a 2.87 ERA in April, Peavy has a 5.34 ERA and hasn’t won a game (if you care about such things) […]
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During Friday night’s Dodgers-Giants game at AT&T Park, Yasiel Puig went off. He tripled three times during the game, and added a double as well for good measure. Perhaps more impressively, Puig didn’t need to slide into third base on the last two triples. The first one, which did result in a slide into third […]
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By the end of the weekend, we’ll known whether or not it’s time to blow up the World Champion Red Sox to some degree. After losing to the Rays on Friday night, Boston fell three games behind Tampa Bay for fourth place in the AL East. They’re 7.5 games back of the Yankees (yes, the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 7/25/2014
This can’t be real, can it? If so, you are *the worst*, Bridgeport Bluefish. Who would ever want to wear this? I never thought I’d say this, but…BRING BACK CAMO. At least we’re immune to it now.
