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The results of this year’s Hall of Fame voting and with them a renewed debate about what actually makes a worthy candidate. This debate has been around for decades, before the question of steroids arose, and has more to do with voting on “very good players,” you know, the guys who are at the top of the league but not necessarily among the best ever. A wide range of opinions exists as to who should be enshrined in the hall. I personally am in the camp that says that only the best of
I recently had a reader ask me about which player he should play over the course of a week. The two players are Nationals’ teammates Michael Morse and Bryce Harper. We ultimately decided that Harper is the way to go, as he is more likely to steal a base if he reaches. As this is the playoffs in a...
(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — A fiery Bobby Valentine summed up his first season as manager with the Boston Red Sox as “miserable.”
Valentine, who joined Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley on a WEEI radio show in Boston (entire audio), was highly animated during his interview, to say the least.
The...
It’s been an interesting 10 days for Jimmy Rollins. Rollins hosted the Ugandan little league team at Citizens Bank Park last week. Rollins had visited Uganda in the offseason, bringing them equipment to play with and donating $10,000 to help them make it to the Little League World Series this year...
So your bullpen just blew a five-run lead in the top of the 8th inning. No worries.
Adam Jones leads off the bottom of the inning.
Bam! One-run lead.
Matt Wieters hits a line drive single to right field. Up comes Mark Reynolds, who has hit seven home runs in the past seven games, including one...
After splitting a four game series with Tampa Bay, I thought the Toronto Blue Jays were back on the winning track. Boy! was I wrong.
The Blue Jays kicked off their three game series against the Baltimore Orioles on a losing note as they were shut out 4-0.
Thankfully, I had a cup of coffee beside...
On the seventh day of September 1978, the Boston Red Sox lead was just four games over a charging Yankee team who arrive in Boston for a crucial 4-game series, which would become known as the “Boston Massacre”. The Yanks dominate game one with a 15 - 3 rout as Willie Randolph accounts for five of...
How to explain Chase Utley's 2012 season? After resting his sore knees over the entire offseason, Utley led most people to believe that he would be ready to go in 2012. Even general manager Ruben Amaro assumed everything was going well. In January, Amaro said, "He's doing good. He's feeling well."...
Here we sit on September 4. The baseball season is in its 6th and final month. And look who’s hanging around.
This is one of the most (fill in superlative) years in baseball we’ve ever seen. Unusual is probably the word to use, or unexpected. Phillies are buried, Red Sox are a dumpster fire, Angels...
Just a disclaimer before I start this post. I'm working on kind of switching up the way I do things here on the blog. Before, a large majority of my posts were dedicated to game recaps and the like. I'm attempting to get away from that. I may still do it occasionally but only when I have writer's...
The Detroit Tigers are running out of rope. Just when all seems right with the world, after a 3-game sweep of the division leading White Sox and with the Indians coming to town, this team, yet again, has found a way to disappoint. Faster than it takes Alex Avila to grow a beard (or kill a rally),...
Earlier today Red Sox manager had a testy exchange with WEEI radio hosts Glenn Ordway and Michael Holley, during which (beginning at the 2:55 mark) Valentine said to Ordway, “If I was there I would punch you right in the mouth.”
Bobby Valentine deserves his share of the blame for the Red Sox...
On September 6, 1995 Cal Ripken Jr played in his 2,131st consecutive. To celebrate that, here is his Hall of Fame Video Bio
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September 6, 1995 - Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive Major League game to surpass Lou Gehrig's 56-year record. When the game becomes official in the middle of the fifth inning, Ripken takes a victory lap around Camden Yards during the 22-minute standing...
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In the northern hemisphere, September marks the end of the summer proper and the start of cooler days leading into the autumn. With that also means the winding down of the baseball season for most teams and the culmination of the pennant races for a few. There is...
Throughout the course of the season, we’ve talked about an awful lot of things. Some people have agreed with strategy ideas that we’ve laid out, others haven’t. That’s fine. Remember, this is an election year, we need to keep in mind that everyone’s styles won’t always mesh with each other. So,...
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