Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
As we all know by now, Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Armando Galarraga was robbed of a perfect game Wednesday afternoon thanks to an awful call by umpire Jim Joyce. While this was a tragedy, there is something that can be done after the fact. And it should be done as ...
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Baseball's general managers convened Tuesday and decided not to expand instant replay in the sport. This following a postseason filled with more blown and second-guessed calls than we've ever seen before.
Baseball started using replay late in the 2008 season strictly on close home run calls. It has become an unqualified ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
They were the LVP's of the last week in sports. Or maybe the MVL's. Some were of their own doing; others were mere victims of circumstance. But there were plenty of people who have come up on the short end of the stick in the past several days in sports ...
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Baseball's Mid-Summer Classic has lost some of its luster over the past few years. Something about the game just bores the hell out of the sports-watching public and the "Now it counts!" campaign has really engendered more anger than interest.
Since Bud Selig is utterly devoid of any imagination and completely ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Holy sweet baby Jesus do the Yankees suck at life.
The spend a bazillion dollars but never pause to think about how to properly construct a baseball team when they could have easily used their own late 90's example. They replace Yankee Stadium with a new Yankee Stadium that is a ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
You know those two gigantic, ridiculously expensive stadiums they just built in New York? One is the baseball equivalent of New Coke and the other is named after a company whose stock is currently trading at $3.20 per share? Well, now a report has surfaced that claims the Yankees and ...
Posted in Bud Selig, Citi Field, MLB, MLB Rumors, New Yankee Stadium, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Rumors | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
There are a lot of things for which I like to blame Bud Selig. The steroids era (partially), tie All Star games, the bad economy, the plague....I could go on for days.
On Monday, one of the greatest days in all of sport with baseball's Opening Day and the NCAA basketball ...
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