0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/5/2012
The first wild card matchup on Friday will start at 5:07 PM, and will pit the 94-68 Atlanta Braves against the defending World Champion and 88-74 St Louis Cardinals. The game will be in Atlanta, in front of 50,000 screaming, tomahawk chopping Atlanta fans, where the Braves are 48-33 this season (including 12-3 in September). […]
0 comments by Pat Lackey
What are the playoffs, really? What is their purpose? It's easy to say that they exist to determine the best team in any given sport, but I'm not really sure that's the best description. In baseball, at least (which is where our American version of playoffs come from and what I'm talking about today, so […]
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The MLB playoffs start in…oh, about six and a half hours or so from the moment I publish this piece. Of course, I went to our staff to get predictions for both wild card games, both league champions, the World Series champion, and the World Series MVP. Without any further ado, here we go. […]
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The playoffs begin today. At 5:07 PM eastern today, the NL Wild Card game between the Cardinals and Braves will begin, and we will officially be in the MLB postseason. Just a quick overview to what to expect from TOC over the course of the playoffs… -Previews of every series, including today's wild card games […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/4/2012
I pondered both in June and at the beginning of September as to whether or not the Phillies 2012 season would cost manager Charlie Manuel his job. Well, after a restructuring of the Phillies coaching staff after Wednesday's season finale against the Nationals, it appears Manuel will stay for 2013, but not beyond. Long-time Phillies coach Greg Gross, serving as […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Apparently, Mariners utility player Chone Figgins doesn't want to be with the team anymore. He told
0 comments by Joe Lucia
We touched on it yesterday, but now it's official: Bobby Valentine's brief tenure as Red Sox manager
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Well everyone, we've made it to the postseason. The MLB playoffs will begin on Friday with the two Wild Card playoff games in Atlanta and Texas, and we couldn't be more excited…even if two teams are going to get sent home after just one game. Regardless of that, we're here. There are some new faces […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
As if the season wasn't already disappointing enough for the LA Angels, they now have to deal with attacks on their announcing team from national radio hosts. On Wednesday, Petros Papadakis of the LA-based, nationally syndicated Fox Sports Radio "PMS Show" put Angels play-by-play man Victor Rojas on blast. In his several minute tirade, Papadakis […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Well, here we are. There will be no game 163, and we have our playoff matchups all set in stone. In the Wild Card playoff games, the Braves will host the Cardinals and the Rangers will host the Orioles on Friday. The Nationals will await the winner of the NL Wild Card playoff in game […]
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Nobody what side of the Mike Trout/Miguel Cabrera MVP debate you stand on, you have to admit this is pretty cool from purely a fan perspective. Cabrera has locked up the Triple Crown, the first time a player has led the league in batting average, home runs, and RBI since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. After […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/3/2012
In Wednesday's crucial A's-Rangers matchup for the AL West title, the Rangers jumped out to a 5-1 lead. The A's quickly came back to tie the game at five runs in the fourth, and took the lead 7-5 after Josh Hamilton dropped a pop-up hit by Yoenis Cespedes with two outs, allowing a pair of […]
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This is something we've known for quite awhile, but now it's been confirmed by Jon Heyman of CBS: the Boston Red Sox will be firing manager Bobby Valentine after the season ends, likely on Thursday or Friday. Valentine has been at the helm of the worst Red Sox season since 1965, which is the last […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Not everything goes according to plan in all sports, not just baseball. Sometimes, players that are coming off a great season have a disastrous season the next year. Sometimes, players that seemed prime for a breakout year fall flat on their face. And sometimes, the most solid players in the league just struggle and can't […]
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By virtue of the Nationals' 5-1 win over the Phillies on Wednesday, we don't need to know the results of any other games in the National League to know what the playoff bracket will look like. The Wild Card game on Friday will see the Cardinals travel to Atlanta to take on the Braves, who […]
