The Seattle Mariners have ensured that their ace Felix Hernandez will be going nowhere for the foreseeable future, inking him to a seven-year, $175 million contract extension that will keep him in Seattle until the 2019 season. This extension

In an interview on Wednesday with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio, former Boston Red Sox starting pitcher and current ESPN analyst Curt Schilling claims that members of the Red Sox organization encouraged him to use steroids while injured in 2008. WEEI has the quotes. “At the end of my career, in 2008 when I had […]

On Sunday, February 10th, AMC's acclaimed show The Walking Dead returns for the second half of season three after taking the last two months off. The show averaged over ten million viewers during the first half of this season, and is unquestionably a smash hit, regardless of plotholes, inaccuracies compared to the comic book, and […]

For all of the talk about PED abuse being a huge problem in Major League Baseball, I think in reality, players getting DUIs is a much bigger problem. Whenever there's a player arrested for driving under the influence, it's usually swept under the rug pretty quickly, and penalties from the league are nearly nonexistent. Colorado […]

There have been a lot of gambles made this offseason.  The Angels are banking on Josh Hamilton putting them over the threshold.  The Dodgers hedged their Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford trade by inflating the payroll up toward $230 million.  The Royals are going for it all in the AL Central after dealing perhaps […]

MLB's investigation of Anthony Bosch's Biogenesis clinic in Miami has turned up a name that will resonate across the landscape of baseball: Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun. Braun's name wasn't tied to any specific performance enhancing drugs, but the 2011 NL MVP has been linked with the scarlet letter in the past afterhe failed […]

With Spring Training on the horizon, the St Louis Cardinals got some bad news when they announced during a press conference today that starting pitcher Chris Carpenter was still feeling pain in his right shoulder following surgery to correct thoracic outlet syndrome this past July. The Cardinals have shut Carpenter down from throwing, and believe […]

After yesterday's trade of Jed Lowrie to the Athletics, a new narrative is popping up around the Houston Astros by some mainstream writers: the team is an embarrassment that makes the A's and Marlins look like big spenders. Much is being made about Houston's payroll in 2013, which will likely end up around $25 million […]

For as much as we love it, baseball is an imperfect game. There is plenty that's wrong with the sport, plenty of things that desperately need to be changed, yet won't because of tradition, the fear of radical change, or simple politics. But that doesn't mean that we can't dream about what some of these […]

The Houston Astros have dealt one of the six players they had under contract for 2013, shortstop Jed Lowrie, to the Oakland Athletics as part of a

Former Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Brandon Webb is retiring at age 33,

The Yankees and Red Sox will always be the center of the baseball universe.  No one is (or should be) debating that fact.  No other organizations in baseball can generate as many fans and as many enemies as these two teams.  Sure, the Phillies and Braves also have legions of dedicated fans, but in sheer […]