As if the Cardinals’ August collapse hasn’t been bad enough, now the insects are turning on the Cards too. While most of the baseball world was busy going ga-ga over Ben Revere’s impression of a spider climbing the outfield wall, Matt Holliday was busy being attacked by… a moth. According to a team spokesman, the […]

For a team that runs itself based on Christian ethic, you’d think that the Colorado Rockies would have a better record for games played on Sunday.  And by better, I mean not losing 17 straight games on God’s holiest of days. For years, the Rockies organization has prided itself on placing an extremely high value […]

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A week ago, it looked like we were all in for two stellar division races in both the AL West and the NL West.  The Angels were hot on the heels of the Texas Rangers and the Giants and Diamondbacks were neck and neck.  For once it looked like us West Coasters were going to […]

If I ever run into Darwin Barney, I am going to buy that man a beer. It isn’t that I don’t respect Dan Uggla’s now mercifully dead 33-game hitting streak, but I had pretty much had it up to here (for those of you who don’t have access to my super sexy webcam, I’m pointing […]

There has been a lot of talk this year about Major League Baseball realigning the divisions and maybe even the leagues.  The most popular notion has them moving the Houston Astros to the American League to balance leagues the two leagues out.  It is an idea that seem non-invasive that somehow ends up creating several […]

In case you haven’t noticed, the Seattle Mariners offense is terrible.  Like, absolutely and tragically terrible.  It is so bad, in fact, that they currently have scored 23 fewer runs than any team in the majors, this despite having the use of a DH, unlike 16 other teams in the bigs (maybe 17 since Adam […]

Arrgh!  More Yankees-Red Sox talk!!  I can’t take it anymore!!!  Curse you, East Coast Bias!!!! That is what I would like to be yelling right now, but I can’t, and not just because I used up my exclamation point quote for the month.  As any non-New Yorker or Bostonian can tell you, the annual overexposure […]

Due to his alleged involvement in a ring of illegal, high stakes poker games, Alex Rodriguez is being summoned to the league offices in New York to discuss this potentially very serious matter.  The talk may not happen for a few weeks yet and when it does, we surely won’t ever know exactly what was […]

Thanks to Erick Aybar’s bunt, Jered Weaver throwing a temper tantrum and Carlos Guillen doing everything but the Dougie after a homer this last Sunday, we’ve all gotten more than an earful of talk about baseball and its fabled “unwritten rules.”  So much debate and vitriol erupted these supposed violations that somehow nobody bothered to […]

With AL Cy Young frontrunners Jered Weaver and Justin Verlander facing off in Detroit, the baseball world tuned in for what was sure to be an epic duel.  For most of the game, that is exactly what they got but then the two teams had to go and spoil it by stomping all over the […]

In this day and age of social media technology, Twitter specifically, tracking rumors at the trade deadline have gone from fun pasttime to almost a full-time job.  Reporters from every outlet are sending out little snippets of trade rumors as tweets so fast that they make the Fail Whale want to cry.  What is a […]

Memo to Aramis Ramirez, quit being such a jerk about your no-trade clause. Who do you think you are?  Actually using your no-trade clause so that you can not be traded?  Quit taking it so darned literally and be like everyone else with a no-trade clause and use it to hand pick the team you […]

Woe is the Seattle Mariners.  The once “surprising” Mariners’ fall from grace continued yesterday as they were saddled with their 15th straight loss, something that has to be truly excrutiating for a team that was actually a .500 team when their skid started.  I’d love to be able to tell you that things are about […]

The trade deadline is less than two weeks away, so the hot stove action is about to really start heating up.   But before the trades start flying, let’s take a stroll through the AL West to see what each of the teams figures to be up to at the deadline. Texas Rangers The Rangers are […]