0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/11/2013
We've got our final four teams left in the MLB season – the Cardinals, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Tigers. Detroit punched their ticket to the ALCS on Thursday night, beating Oakland 3-0 behing another dominant effort from Justin Verlander. PIC OF THE DAY Haka dance celebration? Haka dance celebration. (Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports) Yesterday, we […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry
What's wrong with Justin Verlander? Detroit Tigers fans asked that about their ace all season long. What's wrong with Justin Verlander? During the regular season. Verlander wasn't the pitcher we'd become accustomed to seeing over the past four years. He finished with a 13-12 record and 3.46 ERA. His strikeout rate dipped to 8.9 per […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/10/2013
Former Oakland Athletics (and briefly, St Louis Cardinals) pitcher and current ESPN MLB analyst Mark Mulder tweeted out the above video of an umpire making the greatest strike three call ever: WHOOMP THERE IT IS! According to Mulder, former A's teammate (and 200 AL Rookie of the Year)
0 comments by Joe Lucia
With Joe Girardi officially back in New York and Mike Scioscia and Jerry DiPoto hugging it out in Los Angeles/Anaheim/does it really matter anymore, we head into mid-October with four open managerial positions. With that in mind, I’ve decided to creative a managerial wish-list for each team based on the following criteria: 1. A list […]
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr
Just like their regular season series, the NLDS matchup between the Cardinals and Pirates was as close as could be, with St. Louis needing the full five games to advance to the NLCS for the third consecutive year. Here are five observations from the five-game set. 1. You don't want to face Adam Wainwright in […]
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Breaking Bad writer Thomas Schnauz tweeted out an interesting picture of Bryan Cranston, who played main character Walter White on the show, in the wee morning hours last night. The picture featured Cranston in a Phillies jersey, and according to Schnauz, White was going to end up as a Phillies fan. Unused
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Here we are, folks: the End of Season Post-Mortem series. If you're new here (which about 50% of our reader base is in comparison to last year), here's a brief explanation: after a team is eliminated from playoff contention, we're going to put their season under a microscope and look at just what the hell […]
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The Pittsburgh Pirates' dream season is over. The Bucs lost 6-1 to the Cardinals in Game 5 of the NLDS on Wednesday night, sending St Louis to the NLCS for the third straight year. But man, what a season for the Pirates. 94 wins, a Postseason berth, and the revival of baseball in Pittsburgh is […]
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The St Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1 in Game 5 of their NLDS matchup to win the series 3-2 and advance to the NLCS to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers. The inspirational run of the Pirates came to a close on Wednesday night in St Louis. Adam Wainwright was magnificent for the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/9/2013
Sorry, Cubs: you're going to need to look somewhere else for your manager. The New York Yankees and manager
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Our first AL Division Series is in the books, and the Red Sox will be moving on to await the winner of Thursday's Game 5 between the Tigers and Athletics in Oakland. Boston dispatched the Rays pretty easily, though Tampa Bay put up one hell of a fight in the final two games of the […]
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr
Remember back in June, when Ian Kennedy started a huge brawl between the Diamondbacks and Dodgers by hitting Zack Greinke near the head? It turns out Arizona GM Kevin Towers wants to see more of that. Speaking to Arizona Sports 620 yesterday, Towers recalled a September game in which the Dodgers hit six home runs […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Here we are, folks: the End of Season Post-Mortem series. If you're new here (which about 50% of our reader base is in comparison to last year), here's a brief explanation: after a team is eliminated from playoff contention, we're going to put their season under a microscope and look at just what the hell […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
There will be just one Game 5 in the American League Division Series after the Tigers rallied to beat the A's 8-6. The winner of this series will be heading to Boston after the Red Sox beat the Rays 3-1 to send Tampa packing from this year's Postseason. PIC OF THE DAY David Ortiz, celebrating […]
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The Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 on Tuesday night in Game 4 of the ALDS, winning their series three games to one. Joe Maddon went all-out in this game, using every pitcher in his bullpen after an ineffective Jeremy Hellickson recorded just three outs and faced only six batters. And for […]
