Way to ruin it for everyone, Scott Cousins.  Your Ray Lewis-esque shoulder tackle, errr… I mean totally legal and appropriate slide into Buster Posey has put the fear of God into catchers across the land. Who would blame them though?  After Posey got demolished, Humberto Quintero got taken out.  Today, it was Ryan Doumit’s turn […]

Every week, we here at The Outside Corner do are best to bring you the latest and greatest analysis from the world of Major League Baseball, but we are but humble bloggers and can’t quite cover every single bit of news as it happens.  But when those stories do slip past our watchful eyes, Garrett […]

I know mostly everyone was incredibly relieved this last weekend after the predicted Rapture failed to come to pass.  I don’t know about the rest of you, but had some big plans last weekend (playing XBOX and eating cold pizza) and spiritually ascending to the heavens would have been super inconvenient. Even better than the […]

Duck season!  Rabbit season!  Duck season!  Rabbit season! Nope, its Manager season!!!! Yes, folks, it is that time of year.  Time for to start making some heads roll for teams not performing up to expectations and, as always, the first heads to roll are those of the managers.  Nobody has gotten the axe yet this […]

I didn’t get Raptured away on Saturday, so my schedule was free to watch and recap as much baseball as humanly possible yesterday. Brewers 3, Rockies 1: Oh Ubaldo Jimenez, you and all your crazy walks.  When will you ever learn?  Thanks in large part to five free passes from Jimenez, the Brewers needed a […]

Every week, we here at The Outside Corner do are best to bring you the latest and greatest analysis from the world of Major League Baseball, but we are but humble bloggers and can’t quite cover every single bit of news as it happens.  But when those stories do slip past our watchful eyes, Garrett […]

If you didn’t believe all the whack jobs predicting that the End of Days will occur this weekend, I present to you Brandon League.  If League four losses in four straight games doesn’t trigger the Rapture, I don’t know what will. OK, so maybe having an ineffective closer isn’t exactly the end of the world, […]

Three games got rained out while Jose Bautista rained three homers of his own. Reds 9, Cardinals 7: The Reds finished off their road sweep of the Cards and caused some blood to boil in the process.  Albert Pujols got drilled by Francisco Cordero in the ninth, which seemed unintentional, but it raised some ire […]

Watch enough baseball games and you’ll hear the following on a fairly regular basis, “Player X has one of the best (insert type of pitch here) in the game.”  It is the sort of innocuous statement any TV announcer can make and not have to worry about because it was nothing anyone could ever disprove.  […]

Good news, Josh Thole!  You finally have a nick name, Twitter Qwitter!!! I’m guessing you were probably hoping for something more exciting, but you have to admit, it is better than “Black Thole” (as in offense disappears into a vortex when he is at the plate).  Or are these nicknames too “negative” for you? For […]

Let us recap all the games you missed yesterday while you were paying tribute to the mothers in your life.  You did remember to call your mother, right? Dodgers 4, Mets 2: Yesterday, the Mets ended Andre Ethier’s hitting streak.  Today, Ethier got his revenge by breaking a 2-2 tie by way of a seventh […]

It was a great night to be a struggling veteran hitter but a terrible day to be Brandon Lyon. Reds 3, Astros 2: There is blown saves and then there are Brandon Lyon’s blown saves.  With a 2-0 lead entering the ninth, hear is what Lyon did in order to “close” the game: walk, wild […]

Bud Selig, McGruff the Crime Dog would be very, very disappointed in you. Thanks to Shin-Soo Choo’s drunken misadventures early Monday morning, the 2011 DUI count for Major League Baseball is already up to a whopping six arrests (one more and they get a free sandwich at Quizno’s!).  Choo joins Austin Kearns, Miguel Cabrera, Adam […]

While we were watching baseball yesterday, some soldiers killed Osama Bin Laden.  Does anyone else feel lazy? Angels 6, Rays 5: Jered Weaver was a late scratch due to illness, so he didn’t get his chance to win his seventh game in as many starts.  It seemed like that stroke of fate would cost the […]

The Lord giveth (with three extra inning games) and the Lord taketh away (with one rainout) Dodgers 5, Marlins 4 (10 innings): Andre Ethier can do it all for Dodgers, can’t he?  First he extends his hit streak to 24 and then he hits the game-winning homer in extra innings.  With the starts to 2011 […]