During the course of my four years in local television news, I covered many a soldier coming home to his wife. It was a sight that was always enough to warm the coldest depths of your heart, a welcome reprieve from the crime scenes and local politics that generally dominate the small market news cycle. […]

Well folks, it seems like Carlos Zambrano has finally gone off the deep end. After years of histrionics that included calling out teammates in the media, fighting in the clubhouse, and assaulting a Gatorade machine, Zambrano finally did what in hindsight was inevitable. He walked out on his team, telling club officials he was retiring […]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RWUxBOiihCQ?version=3 Parents are known for embarrassing their children, but it’s fair to say few mothers have embarrassed their daughters quite like this woman did. As you can see from the video above, purportedly taken at last night’s Indians-Tigers game, the action taking place in the stands was clearly more entertaining than anything taking place on […]

Updating a story we brought you earlier tonight — speculation that Kevin Costner’s Lake County Fielders might soon be heading into the cornfields has proven to be correct. The Lake County Fielders have reportedly been kicked out of the North American Baseball League for failing to show up for their scheduled four game series in […]

The fat lady hasn’t sung yet when it comes to the future of the North American Baseball League’s Lake County Fielders. But one thing is for sure — she’s definitely in the green room warming up her pipes. The Fielders have reportedly not yet flown out to Maui to play a scheduled four game set against […]

Last week’s roundtable was all about the controversy surrounding baseball’s unwritten rules. This week we’re all about surprises — the Angels rookies and the White Sox remaining in contention despite appearing to be sellers at the non-waiver deadline. Our knights (get it?) also discuss who needs to make a move the most with the waiver […]

We’re going to take a brief break from talking trade deadline stuff here at The Outside Corner to have a little bit of fun. With our smartphones. What an older generation knows as the board game Scrabble, a younger generation knows as its younger, hipper cell phone cousin Words With Friends. It’s a game that […]

Zack Greinke and Shawn Marcum may have been the more heralded of all the Brewers’ offseason acquisitions. But few are nearly as entertaining as the one and only Nyjer Morgan. Few players’ post-game interviews are must-see TV but as you can see above, Morgan is always entertaining and always awesome. Morgan already has one well-documented […]

The trade deadline came and went on Chicago’s North side much as it did in Major League cities across the country. And while a team boasting a payroll north of $120 million (!) that finds itself twenty-one games below .500 would appear to be natural sellers at the non-waiver deadline, the man you see above […]

Turns out reports of Rich Harden becoming a member of the Red Sox were premature after all. Multiple outlets are reporting this morning that the deal between the A’s and Red Sox that would have sent the veteran right hander to Beantown is in fact off this morning. Harden has reportedly been told he will […]

In the past 24 hours, the White Sox have apparently made up their mind as to whether or not they’re buyers or sellers at the trade deadline — they’re the latter. The team traded Edwin Jackson and Mark Teahen to the Blue Jays for John Frasor and a prospect. Jackson didn’t even have a chance […]

Sports figures are known to engage in a bit of hyperbole every now and then. We call LeBron James “King” even though he has yet to win a ring. Every hot prospect with a massive amount of potential is billed as “The Next <Fill in the Blank With Position Hall-of-Famer>”. And while many of the […]

Do a Google Image search for “Adam Dunn” strikeout and you’ll receive approximately 34,300 results…or approximately 32,000 fewer images than Dunn has strikeouts. Since signing a four-year, $56 million contract with the White Sox, Dunn has been more power source than power charge. He’s having a historic season at the plate, although hardly the kind of historic […]

The division that seemingly nobody wants to win is shaping up to be one of the more exciting races in recent memory as baseball enters its second season. Right now, four teams – count ’em, four are within five games of first place. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh and St. Louis are each within a game of each other. […]