2013 MLB Predictions
Baseball is back, and so it’s time to put myself on the line with the rest of the baseball pundits and make some predictions. Will the Giants reign supreme again? And if they do, will…
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2012 Major League Baseball Playoff Preview
We’ve reached October after a thrilling regular season, and now will bear witness to baseball’s new 10-team playoff format, beginning with two one-game Wild Card playoff games leading into the Division Series. Here is a…
Who are the AL Wild Card favorites?
Who will break the playoff barrier this year? With roughly 40 games to go, it’s time to break down which teams on the American League bubble of the new 5-team field will join the postseason…
Brennan Boesch Is a Hit With Detroit Tigers
In his first at-bat following Major League Baseball’s All-Star break, former Palisades PPBA player Brennan Boesch laced a two-run single to give the Detroit Tigers a first-inning lead against the Baltimore Orioles last Friday. His…
Prospect Interview: Reds 4th-round pick RHP Jon Moscot
MLB Draft Prospect Spotlight: Reds 4th-Rounder RHP Jon Moscot DA: Were you surprised that you were picked in the fourth round? JM: Before the draft, teams had told me somewhere in there. But the week before…
Winning a championship? Just a thing that happens
I love reading articles on teams well before a season begins, talking about whether they have done enough to finally get to the Super Bowl or the World Series or what have you. Pundits and…
Musings on Baseball: Rain aids Yanks/Sox, Cards still get no love
Rainout May Aid Yankees and Red Sox After two emotionally draining games – more specifically, Saturday’s epic comeback by the Yankees and epic meltdown by the Red Sox – Sunday’s rainout may have been the…
Heineman brothers star in Pac 12
Pacific Palisades brothers Tyler and Scott Heineman have been competitive as long as their parents can remember. But last week at UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium, that competition reached new, Division I heights. Playing against each…
New York Giants: The St. Louis Cardinals of football
I saw a Facebook post yesterday that had a picture of Eli Manning paying homage to the well-known Dos Equis ad for The Most Interesting Man in the World. As the commercial’s star says “I…
Bug Selig briefs on baseball at WCBF
I was fortunate enough to get a couple minutes in a mini-scrum — actually, just me and an LA Times writer — with Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig at the World Children’s Baseball Fair…