Tigers outfielder Delmon Young was arrested this morning and is being charged with assault after shoving a man in front of the Tigers hotel in New York, where the team will play the Yankees this weekend. Young was apparently highly intoxicated during the incident, and was actually taken to a hospital to sober up before […]

First, it was Sean Marshall allowing a three run homer to Angel Pagan in the ninth to propel the Giants to a 6-5 win over the Reds. Next, it was Brandon Allen of the Rays launching a moonshot two run homer off of Angels closer Jordan Walden to give the Rays a 4-3 victory. Finally, […]

Another pitcher has gotten bit by the Tommy John bug: Mets starter Mike Pelfrey, who was placed on the DL on Tuesday with a sore elbow. The news was shared by Mets manager Terry Collins today after the Mets’ 3-2 win over the Marlins. With Pelfrey due to hit his final year of arbitration after […]

The line reads out of MLB 12: The Show on Rookie setting while using Justin Verlander against a Double-A team: 40 batters faced over 13 innings, no runs, no hits, one walk, 21 strikeouts at Low-A Delmarva. Go ahead and read that again. Okay, one more time. Impressed yet? Did I mention he’s only 19 […]

John Moores may be desperately looking to sell the San Diego Padres, but that doesn’t mean he is going to sit around and be a lame duck owner until that happens. No, according to a report yesterday, the Padres are seriously considering moving the fences in at the cavernous Petco Park. This is not a […]

Major League Baseball has made major strides in embracing social media and incorporating it into the game experience.  It is a wonderfully progressive trend for an otherwise very conservative league.  But sometimes these efforts to intertwine the online experience with the ballpark experience can go tragically wrong.  Or in the case of the Diamondbacks and […]

In the White Sox 5-4 loss to the A’s yesterday, Paul Konerko (yes, that Paul Konerko) hit his 400th career homer. Konerko is 36 years old, and he’s remained relatively healthy over his career, only missing more than 25 games once since becoming a regular in 1999. He has seven 30 homer seasons, and three […]

Brian Wilson underwent Tommy John surgery last Thursday to repair the damaged ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing arm and the only report immediately afterward was that it “went as planned.” We’ve learned from Brian Wilson himself that the plan was borrowing a ligament from Sasquatch and the hit song from the Night Shift soundtrack:  Surgery was […]

Bobby Valentine isn’t off to a very smooth start as the skipper of the Boston Red Sox. After calling out one of the team’s nitty-gritty vets, Kevin Youkilis, in an interview less than two weeks into the season, Valentine looked like kind of an idiot again on Wednesday when he incorrectly penciled in a lineup […]

This is by far the most frightening first pitch ever thrown at a baseball game:  This is the text from the description of the video on YouTube: The video shows the creepy character from the hit movie “The Ring” pitching a ball in a Japanese Baseball league as she falls down. OH Japan what will […]

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