MLB Midseason Report: Who Are The Contenders?
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…
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Celebrating the Good Times: Ranking Yankees and Dodgers’ Recent October Failures (in Legit Seasons)
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…
MLB Thoughts: Disparity Between Good and Bad is As Glaring As Ever; LA-NY World Series On Tap?
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,…
A Dodgers World Series Title Feels Inevitable. Just Don’t Call It a “Repeat.”
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,…
Fittingly, The Most Phony Season in Sports History Will End With a Los Angeles title*
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,…
Leave Houston Alone! Astros Did Earn 2017 Title
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…
NLDS Preview: Who Steps Forward?
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…
MLB Awards Season: Making My Early Predictions
Oh, October baseball and MLB Awards Season. Don’t try and snow me that the 2019 NFL season differs in excitement from any of the previous, like, 10 seasons. I’ll save you the suspense right now…
2018 World Series: The Big Boys are Back
Can you believe it’s been five years since an AL East team represented the Junior Circuit in the Fall Classic? That would be the Red Sox, of course, in 2013, and it’s crazy to think…
LCS Preview: Heavyweights Clash, Underdogs Flash
Doesn’t it feel like the baseball season just started yesterday? It was a blink of an eye ago that the season kicked off on a Thursday in March, and now we’re down to four clubs…