Major League Baseball has made major strides in embracing social media and incorporating it into the game experience.  It is a wonderfully progressive trend for an otherwise very conservative league.  But sometimes these efforts to intertwine the online experience with the ballpark experience can go tragically wrong.  Or in the case of the Diamondbacks and […]

The Kansas City Royals were supposed to be a dark horse contender for the AL Central this season.  Instead, the dark horse is already on its way to the glue factory now that the Royals have started off the season 3-13 and are mired in an 11-game losing streak.  Looking to oust a manager a […]

If there is one thing we have learned from the early season it is that if a team fancies itself as a contender, then they probably should have bolstered their bullpen in the off-season. Just look at what is happening to the Angels, considered World Series favorites by many.  They currently sit at 4-8 with […]

Bartolo Colon gave new meaning to the phrase “pounding the strike zone” in his Wednesday night start agains the Angels.  And, no, that isn’t a fat joke, as far as you know, but rather a way of pointing out that Colon at one point in the game threw 38 consecutive strikes. It was a streak […]

The New York Mets may be off to a surprising 7-4 start to the 2012 season, giving their fans some hope, but that hope just got smashed in the biggest way ever as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has ruled that the Mets stink and will not win the World Series.  Yes, you read that […]

Just a week into the season and we already have arrived at a point where both of the top position player prospects in all of baseball could, nay, should be called up to the big leagues.  For entirely different reasons, the time is now for Bryce Harper and Mike Trout to get called up. In […]

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.  That must be the philosophy of the Cleveland Indians front office since they finally landed a veteran bat to help out in their beleaguered outfield.  After an aborted trade for Bobby Abreu just before the season, Cleveland GM Chris Antonetti has finally settled on Johnny Damon […]

With the Atlanta Braves win over the Astros last night, the idle Minnesota Twins (0-4) became the last winless team in the Major Leagues.  That is a dubious distinction that no team ever wants to have.  But what really has to be scaring Twin fans right now is that they could remain winless for a […]

If there is one word that can be used to sum up the MLB Opening Week action it would be “overmanaging.”  We saw some truly head-scratching decisions from the skippers the last few days.  Intentionally walking Sean Rodriguez to get to Carlos Pena.  Sacrifice bunting with the second batter of the game.  Chris Perez continuing […]

Finding a leadoff man for an MLB lineup is a harder task that one would think.  Teams are looking for that perfect blend of plate discipline, contact skills and speed that can be the catalyst for a high-powered offense.  As it turns out, players that meet all three of those criteria are incredibly hard to […]

Only in Hollywood can one of the premier franchises in baseball get sold to a legendary basketball star for a record sum of $2 billion.  Yep, the Magic Johnson fronted ownership group is about to become the new owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers.  The ownership group, which also includes former NBA and MLB executive […]

It seems that every season there is at least one team that comes out of nowhere to make the general public say, “What?  How are they winning?  They are supposed to suck.”  Last year, those teams were the Cleveland Indians and the Pittsburgh Pirates, at least up until the All-Star break.  Seeing supposedly bad teams […]

For those of you who don’t follow NFL news, and why would you since baseball is clearly vastly superior in every way, the New Orleans Saints just got in a whole bunch of trouble for instituting a bounty system in which players were paid for intentionally injuring opposing players.  The NFL commissioner punished the Saints […]

You have to feel for the plight of the marketing department of each MLB team.  Each year they are tasked to come up with dozens of promotional giveaways to lure fans to come out to the ballpark.  Some of these ideas are great, but some of them… not so much.  We could spend time admiring […]

Remember how Ryan Braun won the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player?  Of course you do, it just happened, but you better hope that memory sticks because years from now you are going to have a hard time finding out who won the 2011 NL MVP, or at least you will if you rely upon […]