0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/24/2012
I never thought we would see the day where the ZimBear would be topped, but sure enough, the Orem Owlz went and did it with what has to be the creepiest bobblehead giveaway of all-time. Actually, I should say it is a bobble-three-head: Or maybe I should just say nightmare fuel. The intention here is […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/23/2012
Thanks to the addition of a second Wild Card this season, Major League Baseball's post-season is being forced into a pretty tight schedule. Once the season ends, there is one day off before the new one-game Wild Card round begins. That day off is available in the case of necessary make-up or tiebreaker games. And […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/21/2012
The Oakland Athletics continue to be surprise entrants in the Wild Card race. Some in baseball keep waiting for them to come back to earth and drop out of the race, but apparently Billy Beane isn't one of them as he just pulled off a trade for shortstop Stephen Drew from the Arizona Diamondbacks in […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/20/2012
The general rule in Major League Baseball and other pro sports is that the big spenders have an unfair advantage. They get to drop major coin to acquire elite talent and then ride those purchases on to post-season glory. Well, that's the theory anyway. But how has it worked in practice in the Majors this […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/16/2012
This is a picture of some tickets for a baseball game. The game was a Mariners game. Specifically, it was yesterday's Mariners game, the one where Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game. You might notice that those tickets are unused, that's because they were not used at the time of the picture and remain unused […]
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Home plate umpires seem to be dropping like flies when the Angels are involved. Just last week, Bill Miller got hit in the mask by a Zack Greinke pitch and suffered a concussion that twice caused him to lose track of the count. That incident was more odd than anything, but tonight, things got downright […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/15/2012
Thing in Boston just ugly. Errr, uglier. Double errr, even uglier. In a season where that has been dogged by reports of clubhouse tension between Red Sox players and manager Bobby Valentine, Yahoo's Jeff Passan may have just blown the dang roof off the whole thing with his explosive report yesterday detailing several key Boston […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/10/2012
Nobody has won the Triple Crown in the majors since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. Nobody has won the Triple Crown in the National League since Joe "Ducky" Medwick in 1937. Back when those Triple Crowns were won, that was considered an accomplishment of epic proportions. 45 years after Yaz's Triple Crown, Detroit's Miguel Cabrera is […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/9/2012
Earlier this week, it was announced that the San Diego Padres had been sold and that a minority investor in the group was famed golfer Phil Mickelson which continues a growing trend of baseball teams taking on celebrities as minority ownership partners. When the sold Dodgers earlier this year, NBA legend and LA icon Magic […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/7/2012
Weird things have long been known to happen in the minor leagues. Teams adopt bizarre nicknames, hideous logos, oddball mascots and ridiculous ballpark promotions. But all of that pales in comparison to what the Orem Owlz (see, they spell it with a "z," that's wacky!) just pulled off. This last weekend, the Owlz brought their […]
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Everyone keeps waiting for it, but it still hasn't happened. Everyone keeps pointing to their horrible run differential, but it hasn't made a difference. Nope, sorry folks, the Baltimore Orioles are still right in the thick of the playoff race and it doesn't look like they are going to go away anytime soon. It defies […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/3/2012
You read the title of this article, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Clearly there is some chicanery afoot. After all, with the mind-blowingly amazing season Mike Trout is having, how could there possibly be any question about who the American League Rookie of the Year is going to be this year? The 20-year old phenom […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 8/2/2012
So what exactly is the plan for the Philadelphia Phillies now? They went all out to sign Cole Hamels to a monster contract and then gutted their already anemic lineup by sending out Shane Victorino and Hunter Pence. Say what you want about the trades themselves, but the overall strategy was a bold one from […]
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For the last few weeks, the struggles of Josh Hamilton have been a growing concern for the Texas Rangers. After getting off to a hot start that had everyone conceding the AL MVP trophy to him, he went in the tank. In June his OPS fell to a mortal .754. In July, he bottomed out […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 7/31/2012
In one of the more under-the-radar trades of a busy night of deals on Monday, the Texas Rangers acquired catcher Geovany Soto from the Chicago Cubs. This move was something of a surprise since Texas was not known to be in the market for catching help since they already have Mike Napoli in place with […]
