The ground-breaking book Moneyball was published way back in 2003, but only now, eight years later, it has finally jumped from the talk of the baseball world to the focal point of mainstream entertainment. Don’t believe me?  Then clearly you haven’t seen Brad Pitt on the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated.  And note that […]

While most of the baseball world was focusing on the sudden multitude of playoff races, a funny trend emerged yesterday. No, the Twins still didn’t end their losing streak.  Rather, it seems that there was a two-for-one special on home runs yesterday. Not one, not two, but FIVE different players smacked a pair of homers […]

Normally, we wouldn’t need to talk about potential free agent landing spots for a star player of a playoff-bound team at this point of the season, but thanks to Prince Fielder being a little too honest in a recent interview, we really don’t have a choice but to look at where he might end up […]

The same franchise that brought you Logan Morrison’s “We Swear This Isn’t About Twitter” Suspension embarrassingly proudly presents Mike Cameron: Released for Detrimental Conduct (in theaters now). Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Florida Marlins are back up to their old disciplinary tricks.  This time the subject of their misguided wrath is veteran outfielder Mike Cameron, […]

Leave it to Major League Baseball to find a way to screw up the tenth anniversary of 9-11. For some reason yesterday, the geniuses at MLB decided that they were not going to allow the Mets to wear commemorative hats honoring the fallen NYPD and FDNY members during their game IN NEW YORK yesterday.  The […]

The Yankee organization is known for being ruthlessly competitive and willing to do whatever it takes to win.  In their storied past, they’ve literally spent billions of dollars in the pursuit of a championship, hired and fired managers on whims and even resorted to under-handed tactics like hiring private investigators to dig up dirt on […]

All across the land, people are falling all over themselves to anoint Kirk Gibson National League Manager of the Year, and rightly so.  They might as well not even hold a vote because with Gibson leading the surprising Diamondbacks to an even more surprising NL West division crown, he is going to take home the […]

Get your sunglasses ready folks, because the images in this post might burn your retinas.  Thanks to the University of Maryland’s football team, there is a new entrant into the “Worst Uniform Ever” contest, a title that MLB had an ironclad hold on.  That was until the Terps came out and played in these monstrosities: […]

For anyone familiar with “Country” Joe West’s long body of work as big league umpire, you will not be surprised that he managed to find a way to make himself the focal point of a baseball game.  What will surprise you is that we may all be thanking Joe for it years from now. West […]

If the Texas Rangers don’t end up winning the AL West, it certainly won’t be because their GM Jon Daniels didn’t do his part. After paying up two nice packages in order to beef up the team’s bullpen at the standard trade deadline, procuring Koji Uehara and Mike Adams, Daniels decided that it still wasn’t […]

Rare is the prospect that comes into the league with sky high expectations and actually lives up said expectations almost immediately.  Well, add Mike Trout to that list of rarities because he just blew up. Earlier tonight, Mike Trout, arguably the top prospect in baseball coming into this season, crushed two home runs in the […]

Fans at tonight’s Marlins-Mets game are in for a potential treat tonight.  No, the game hasn’t been canceled, rather the crowd gets the chance to bear witness to Florida starter Javier Vazquez becoming just the 30th man ever to fan 2,500 batters.  No doubt this is a huge and rare accomplishment since only one other […]

Who doesn’t like a good playoff race?  Really, what could be better than two (or more) teams slugging it out down the final stretch of the season to determine a divisional winner?  We all do, right? Yeah, well, too bad.  It isn’t even September yet and all those fun and wonderful races look like they […]

First Will Smith and Jada Pinkett separate (allegedly) and now Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly are breaking up?  Doesn’t anyone believe in love anymore?  Really, I don’t know if I can go on.  I promised myself… I wasn’t going to cry.  Here, read the details on the story via JustJared.com while I try and regain […]

Ever since the Chicago Cubs announced the dismissal of Jim Hendry, just about every big name you can think of has been suggested as a potential candidate to take over the Cubs’ front office.  And who could blame anyone for that?  The Cubs are a brand name franchise in a huge market with a vast, […]