THE FATHER LIFE

In 2009, just his second full season in Major League Baseball, Oakland Athletics outfielder Ryan Sweeney finished second on the team with a .293 batting average while hitting six home runs, recording 58 RBI’s and stealing six bags. He was a human highlight reel, collecting many a web gem and leaving numerous batters gap-jawed as [...]

The American League:
Boston Red Sox vs. Los Angeles Angels:
I feel like a broken record. Every postseason I write previews for the playoffs, and somehow, every year I write a preview for the Red Sox and the Angels embroiled in another battle. Stretching back to ’86, the Sox have been a large, unrelenting thorn in the [...]

Something strange is going on in the state of Pennsylvania, and it has been for a long long time. The Phillies have lost the most games in MLB history and had sixteen straight losing seasons in the thirty’s and forty’s. But, somewhere in the early nineties, the Pirates must have decided that they weren’t going [...]

Baseball has been regarded as America’s pastime for over 150 years. Journalists back in the 1850’s regarded baseball as America’s game. Whether you are a big time baseball fan or not, most everyone is familiar with the box score. The box score is a brief snapshot of all the relevant statistical data from the game [...]

It’s a common scene that happens in youth baseball leagues in towns across the country. A parent is unhappy that his or her child is not in the starting lineup, batting in a certain spot in the order, playing a certain position, or perhaps that parent is displeased about another issue. [...]

The AL West was the sorriest division in baseball last season, with just one team finishing above .500. That team, the LA Angels of Anaheim, ran away with the division, clinching weeks before the season was over.

Ernie Banks once told the New York Times, “Spring training means flowers, people, coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism, and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again.”
I would submit that, with a six-month old in the house, it’s impossible not to be happy and hopeful, especially during this time of year. It [...]

We’re running through a three-week preview of the upcoming MLB season, team by team. Last week, we covered the AL East and NL East. This week, the AL Central and NL Central.

Over the next three weeks, we’ll be running through a preview of the upcoming MLB season, team by team. First in the lineup, the AL East and NL East.

There is a small part of me…OK, a BIG part of me…that feels a sense of smug pride because the World Series match-up we have before us was almost certainly at the bottom of the Fox executive’s wish lists. Now, I must admit that this series will probably not break any ratings records, but I [...]