Back in the summer, when the San Francisco Giants made their presence known and the NL West truly became a race, I had a premonition. No, it was not a full-on prediction, nor was I…
The title is partly tongue-in-cheek. The pennant races are heating up and stadiums are full again, so this September actually feels like a real MLB season. And in a year where the Dodgers are trying…
Let’s be frank: the Los Angeles Dodgers did not need Max Scherzer or Trea Turner. My personal opinion was that they were more motivated to fatten their absurd, record-setting payroll to $275 million out of spite to…
We’re almost at the All-Star break in 2021, an amazing feat considering where we were at this time last year when there was no baseball and MLB was desperately trying to cobble something together to…
Okay, by now you know how I feel about the 2020 MLB season. Kind of like how we all feel about 2020 in general, right? The Dodgers can roll out the red carpet for their…
If you are as tired of the Yankees and Dodgers as I am, this was a tough week. Not so much because both teams are starting to look like the top dogs the prognosticators predicted,…
It’s good to have real baseball back. Watching early April baseball, with fans, with teams playing a regular schedule consisting of all the teams in their league plus one interleague division, just feels right. This,…
Watching — or, a better term would be “trying to stomach” — the 2020 World Series, I’ve been flooded with so many negative emotions. Most of these, of course, are fueled by the underlying cause,…
I’m going to start this piece with a disclaimer because, frankly, I feel like I have a societal obligation to do so. I do not condone what the Houston Astros did in 2017 (and possibly…
Okay, here we go again — it’s October baseball, the best there is for sports playoffs. Four teams who all took different roads to get here, and two matchups we’ve seen coming for a while…