This just in from the news everybody saw coming months ago department, new Astros owner Jim Crane, having finally approved to take ownership of the club has fired team president Tal Smith and general manager Ed Wade. Those are the only two firings as of right now, but if I were a coach or front […]

Movember MLB Mustache Madness is down to the Final Four and only mustached legends remain.  Each of our regional bracket champions have been crowned after some tight battles, leaving us with the best of the best.  Will it be a current player or a former player?  Will it be a real life manager or one […]

Those fascists at the National Football League would have you believe that Thanksgiving is a day specifically reserved for the sport of football, but we here at the Outside Corner know better.  The Major League Baseball season may be over, but baseball can be enjoyed and appreciated any time of year, Thanksgiving Day included. To […]

The Movember MLB Mustache Madness reaches the Elite Eight round and the competition starting to get, dare I say, hairy.  With a trip to the Final Four on the line, we’re blowing out all the bracket championships in one fell swoop.  You’ve got until midnight Thursday, so get your votes in now just in case […]

In our final contest of the Movember MLB Mustache Madness regional semi-finals, the Wild Card bracket gives a pair of big fake artifical ones… mustaches I mean.  What did you think I was talking about? Bernie Brewer Considering the great legacy of Brewer mustaches it is only fair that their mascot boast one of the […]

At some point today, the 29 current owners of MLB franchises will vote to approve Jim Crane to become the new owner of the Houston Astros with the caveat that he will pack up the Astros and move him all the way over to the far away land of the American League. It is a […]

Movember MLB Mustache Madness enters the semi-finals of the Wild Card bracket.  This first match-up features a fake manager of a fake team with fake terrible players that were forced upon him having a mustache face off against a real owner of a real team with real terrible players that his team willingly acquired. The […]

Movember MLB Mustache Madness Managers Semi-Finals moves on to two mustachioed managers who are currently unemployed but for entirely different reasons. Trey Hillman Hillman has been winning by big percentages in every matchup thus far.  That’s something he might want to try the next time he gets a manager’s job. VS. Cito Gaston Gaston creeps […]

Movember MLB Mustache Madness enters the semi-finals of the Managers bracket.  It may not be the most exciting bracket, but at least the voting has been close.  I’m not doing a very good job of selling this am I? Eric Wedge Two wins in a row for Wedge, another win in this round and I […]

In our next Movember MLB Mustache Madness Former Player Semi-Final, Cinderella is still dancing away at the ball.  Will our underdog make it three upsets in a row? Eddie Murray First he felled Keith Hernandez.  Then he obliterated Wade Boggs.  Murray’s tournament run has been a huge surprise to say the least.  Will his Cinderella […]

Hooray! The Dodgers are going to sign superstar Matt Kemp to an eight-year, $160 million contract extension!!! Booo!  The Dodgers just gave middle-aged infielder Mark Ellis a two-year deal worth around $9 million!!! Oh, you silly Dodgers, your decision making is so befuddlingly paradoxical.  How can one team be so smart and yet so stupid […]

Movember MLB Mustache Madness moves on now to the Former Player bracket semi-finals.  We start it off with a diametrically opposed battery consisting of one of the most famous and fanciest mustaches you will ever see and one of the most anonymous and scruffiest ‘staches you probably never heard of. Rollie Fingers Fingers dominated his […]

In our next Movember MLB Mustache Madness Current Player Semi-Final, we get an epic slugger versus an epic slappy, but we also get two epic mustaches.  What more could you ask for? Jose Bautista Joey Bats has the power and the power mustache, but is his short-liven flirtation with an upper lip umbrella enough to […]

The Movember MLB Mustache Madness is starting to get serious as we move on to the regional semi-finals.  Gone are all the pretenders to the mustachioed throne as only the best of the best remain.  Starting off the current players bracket semi-finals is a battery of under nose brooms that any man would envy. John […]

While the rest of the world waits to find out whether or not Jose Reyes will sign with the Marlins, the Arizona Diamondbacks were busy signing a middle infielder of their own, Aaron Hill. The Snakes made a mid-season swap of disappointing second baseman by trading Kelly Johnson to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange […]