The sport of baseball is in a fantastic place right now. The fact is that two of the 10-playoff berths only got locked up yesterday is absurd, considering there are only 12 -14 games left in the regular season. And the two teams who clinched spots were the Washington Nationals and Cincinnati Reds, both NL teams from the East and [...]
MLB Power Rankings: August 17 and Yankees claim the top spot again
August 17, 2012 By
Wow! What an exciting time for baseball, as these last 6-weeks will be about as competitive as ever. The New York Yankees are back on the top again this week because with all their injuries, most recently to ace CC Sabathia, this team is still winning. The Bronx Bombers went 3-1 vs. the Texas Rangers this past [...]
Hernandez’s glory overshadows Cabrera’s shame
August 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Felix Hernandez has always been a breath of fresh air for his downtrodden Seattle Mariners, but on Wednesday afternoon, he was an infusion of life for a sport that could have used a second wind. Just as Hernandez was about to toe the rubber for his start against the Tampa Bay Rays, news broke that [...]
2012 MLB Power Rankings – Week 12
June 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Another week closer to the half-way mark of the 2012 MLB season and teams are battling all over baseball. In the NL West the 2nd place Dodgers have hit just 6 homers, and the 1st place SF Giants made them miss Matt Kemp. In the AL West the Halos are leading almost every hitting category for the [...]
2012 MLB Power Rankings – Week 11
June 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Inter-league play is about to wrap-up this weekend, which is good for most of the NL teams who got exposed by their AL counterparts. The AL is winning the majority of the match-ups thus far with a 119-91 record but it has not been the easy street of years past. The Yankees finally lost this [...]
New York Yankees: Get Melk
June 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I read a quote once that said: “It pays to plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” It is no big secret that the New York Yankees brass goal is to get the current $209+ million payroll down to $189 million in order avoid the hefty luxury tax increases that MLB will [...]
2012 MLB Team Preview: San Francisco Giants
March 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Coming into 2011 the San Francisco Giants were the World Series Champions, but just as I predicted defending their title proved to be too much for this self-proclaimed band of misfits. One Showtime reality show later and a 86-76 record, the Giants embarrassingly missed the playoffs in 2011. The party was over for San Francisco [...]
The 2011 New York Yankees Team Was Built To Win This WS
October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With each fleeting game, my attempts not to notice the absence of the 2011 New York Yankees in the World Series is wearing thin. The more I watch the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals play, the more I realize that the 2011 Bombers were truly molded to win this postseason. With only five [...]
New York Yankees Trade Rumors: Messiah Going To The Bay
October 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The 2010 World Series Champs, the San Francisco Giants proved what I knew to be already true, that last season was based more on luck. The defending WS Giants didn’t even make the playoffs, or put up much of a challenge. If blaming it on injuries is …
New York Yankees: Halos Starting Dan Haren Tonight
August 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Arriving in the Bronx after winning eight of ten games on the road, the Yankees should be very pleased with that performance; except when both losses materialized in Fenway Park. So, instead the Yankees come home shamed and self-conscious, but thankful…
