Well this probably isn’t how the Rangers expected Yorvit Torrealba to spend his time in the Venezuelan winter league. Torrealba took a beef over an earlier call by umpire Dario Rivero Jr. way, way too far earlier today. After striking out swinging, Torrealba turned around, started screaming at the Rivero before hitting the umpire square […]

  What do you do when you have one of the most popular and beloved brand names in all of minor league baseball, as the Quad Cities River Bandits did from 1992-2003? You immediately jettison it and replace it for something that became almost universally reviled from the get-go, right? That’s what River Bandits ownership […]

As someone who spent years dressing up as one of the most iconic food-based mascots in professional sports history, I have a special place in my heart for food-based logos. Yes, from 2004-2006 I was one of the Milwaukee Brewers’ racing sausages. And while I treasure my time racing around the field in Milwaukee, the […]

For most women, sleeping with Derek Jeter is among the highlight of their sexual career. Bedding a five-time World Champion, All-Star, multimillionaire, and certain first-ballot Hall of Famer gives them eternal bragging rights over their friends who may not have been able to land suitors nearly as rich or famous. Of course in the past, […]

All (likely) soon-to-be former Milwaukee Brewers all-star slugger Prince Fielder wants for Christmas is a home. The 27-year-old free agent slugger is by far and away the best free agent left on the open market. He’s coming off a season that saw him post this monster line in his walk year: .299 BA, 38 HR, […]

Nobody ever accused Milwaukee Brewers GM Doug Melvin of being slow to the trigger. Hours after signing Aramis Ramirez to be the Brewers’ third baseman for the next three years, Melvin traded the incumbent at third, Casey McGehee, to the Pirates in exchange for reliever Jose Veras, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s Tom Haudricourt. The […]

Every manager dreams of having players who will literally run through a wall for them. Today, Ozzie Guillen signed a guy who will do just that and potentially more for him. The Miami Marlins signed Aaron Rowand to a minor league deal today, a deal that includes an invite to Spring Training. All indications are […]

The image you see above of Aramis Ramirez attempting to throw a runner out at Miller Park is about to become a much more regular sight. Ramirez is set to sign a three year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers reportedly worth up to $37 million. Ramirez was deemed expendable by the Cubs after the team […]

You may have thought you knew everything there was to know about new Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine. You knew that he managed the Texas Rangers, lead the New York Mets to the 2000 World Series, and once returned to the dugout donning a fake mustache after being ejected. You may have also known that […]

Correct me if I’m wrong here but haven’t the now-Miami Marlins been baseball’s teal-hued equivalent of Ebenezer Scrooge over the course of virtually their entire existence? With the exception of a payroll splurge in 1997 that lead to the team winning the World Series in one of the most exciting Game 7s in the history […]

(Ed. note: We couldn’t find a baseball Thanksgiving photo so our old pals Charlie Brown and Snoopy are filling in) Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there on the internets who are taking a break from your family celebrations and parade/football watching! Hopefully the soundtrack at your home is full of good cheer and laughter […]

What you see above is the future subject of children throughout South Florida’s nightmares, what appears to be the love child of Bugs Bunny, Dumbo the Elephant and one of the demon monkeys from the Wizard of Oz with watercolor palette spilled on top of it. Only it’s supposed to be a friendly Marlin. Billy […]

Many of us have dreamed about being a successful, World Series-winning General Manager. Of course there’s only a select few that will ever get to live that dream. Guys like Kenny Williams, who built the 2005 White Sox roster that swept the Astros to win the team’s first World Series title in 87 years. More […]

Woe is Hall of Fame second baseman Ryne Sandberg, who just announced that he’ll be spending another season managing the Phillies Triple-A affiliate Lehigh Valley IronPigs in 2012. Sandberg, coming off a season in which he reached the postseason as a minor league manager for the second time in five seasons, was passed over for […]