Okay, we’ve finally made it. The Fall Classic is here, and while it may not feature the big market, usual suspects, we’ve got a refreshing matchup headlined by star-studded pitching. No Red Sox. No Yankees….
So how many of you realistically thought this would be our NLCS matchup? Not me, certainly. The Dodgers dropped the NLDS in five after winning 106 games, a stunner few saw coming. The Nationals came…
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…
It’s never happened before. The Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals are both 0-for in the franchise’s playoff history. While this isn’t a series, it’d be a first for the team in terms of advancing out…
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…
Let me lay this out right off the bat: this 2018 MLB season, in many ways, has been brutal to watch. For all the dreams of parity the 2015, 2016, and 2017 seasons inspired, 2018…
Okay, so I’m 2-for-2 picking rounds (although, really, just individual games) thus far. Now I try my hand at picking the ALDS and NLDS, four juicy matchups with plenty of compelling storylines and one guarantee:…
What a strange day in baseball (isn’t it always?). If you come to the ballpark you never know what you’ll see. On May 11, we had a pitcher hit two home runs to propel his…
I’m willing to bet that more than half of the people that had an opinion about the Detroit Tigers signing Jordan Zimmermann this offseason did not look at the investment favorably. Those skeptics better do…
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,…