Baseball Blog: 2 Weeks Down, 24 Still to Go
Have we really learned any more in the baseball season’s second week than we did on the first? You can essentially set your watch to a team that starts out scorching taking a mild step…
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Ranking All 30 MLB Announcing Teams
This is not an easy task. It’s not a fair task. But it is a rather fun one. Being a subscriber to MLB TV for several years now, I have had the pleasure — sometimes,…
In a Pinch, Cardinals Prove Magic Isn’t Gone
Yes, they were playing the hapless Atlanta Braves. But the St. Louis Cardinals did something last night no team in MLB history had ever done. With three pinch-hit home runs, the Cardinals notched their first…
2016 MLB Preview: Is Parity Here to Stay?
There is a chance that the 2016 Major League Baseball season is as unpredictable as the weather has been this winter. The good news in that is, well, that means that the season will be…
1 More Time: Top Seeds Again Reign Supreme on Championship Sunday
Between 1994-2008, it never happened. Now, it’s happened three years in a row. That would be both No. 1 seeds meeting in the Super Bowl, as both home teams and top seeds in each conference…
Some Final Thoughts on Championship Sunday
This almost seems too apropos. Tom Brady, a sixth-round draft pick with an eternal chip on his shoulder, the outlier in a four-man field of former No. 1 overall picks. In many ways, this weekend is…
A Dozen Reasons to Expect a Panthers-Patriots Super Bowl Rematch
It’s late January, a time officially reserved for one of three quarterbacks. Since three is a crowd, Ben Roethlisberger will watch from his couch as Tom Brady (10th appearance) and Peyton Manning (fifth appearance) square…
Karma a Factor in Unnecessarily Dramatic, Predictable Wild Card Weekend
For the first time ever, all four road teams won in one playoff weekend. Shocking, isn’t it? Actually, not really, when you consider three of the road teams were favored, a fourth was a slight…
Why “Tanking” Might Be a Good Thing in Sports, Especially for Vikings and Packers This Week
When will sports teams start realizing that the long-term outlook of the franchise is exponentially more important than satiating the impatient fans that attend live games and want to be happy for three hours to…
Our 2015 MLB playoff predictions and analysis
Now that the matchups for the MLB postseason are set, it’s time to dive into things a little bit further. Before we make our official picks, it’s worth noting that in the last three years,…