2024 MLB Midseason Review
Now that the unofficial first half is in the books, we can look back before we start to look forward. Who surprised us? Who disappointed us? What clubs will make the biggest improvements at the…
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2022 World Series Preview: Can Astros Silence the “Cheaters” Talk and Cool Off the Phillies?
They’re done, everyone said. They can’t win without cheating, everyone said. Eventually, they’ll just go away, everyone said. Yet in a 2018 Patriots “We’re Still Here” manner, the Astros are back on baseball’s biggest stage….
Are the 2021 Braves the 2015 Mets? Thanks to MLB’s Uneven Playoff Format, They Just Might Be
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 San Francisco Giants: A Hope For a Better America, and the Antithesis of the Dodgers
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…
MLB August Report: Dodgers’ Purchases Impose Fear
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…
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…
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,…