Granted, I suppose if you evaluate it by Yankees standards:Maybe the Yankees were the better team this year, but the Phillies, with Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Pedro Feliz, Raoul Ibanez, Jayson Werth, et al, have the best nucleus of young talent in baseball...
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One explanation for why people who advocate transparently idiotic policies that result in national disasters (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our current health care system, our drug laws, our.
Tim Marhcman has an excellent piece noting that the superficially numbers-savvy Joe Girardi is actually a much worse percentage manager than the folksy-seeming Charlie Manuel:The quintessential Girardi ploy came last.
I think whatever of my colleagues characterized this article on Twitter as "World Series that don't include the Yankees invariably suck" was actually being unfair (although it would be an accurate summary of this one.) Rather, Kepner was saying that recent world Series have sucked...
Whatever the limitations of his baseball knowledge, Matt is in fact correct about Buzz Bissinger's latest silly anti-Billy Beane screed. The biggest problem with Bissinger's rant is that he doesn't.
Apparently the ramps in the new Yankee Stadium were made out of paint, breadsticks, and shellac. I wish I could say that their issues with their construction company Valdazzo Brothers.
I'll grant that Oliver has pitched well for two years, but what the hell was he doing taking Lackey out after 104 pitches? You'll have to take my word that this was a first guess, but wow. Especially given the thinness of his bullpen it's...
Loomis has identified a troubling trend.
Slappy Rodriguez will never get a hit in a big game. As so many New York sportswriters informed us, the Yankees would be much better off with a nice Scott.
They seem like good series. Let's hope so, as the wild card round had 3 dogs (although the individual games were often good.)LA v. PHI Very interesting series, with very talented teams with often-mocked (especially by me) managers who turned out to be excellent. My...
Manager of the Year or no, Jim Tracy is the latest manager to cost his team a shot at a championship because The Closer has to pitch the 9th inning.
Yay!The Chicago Cubs baseball team filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, a step that will allow its corporate parent to sell the team in an $845 million deal.Tragically for.