Alex Rodriguez is currently stuck on 599 home runs.  With just one more tater, he would become only the seventh player in MLB history to hit 600 of them in his career.  But sadly, Rodriguez has long been considered a pretty-boy-choke-artist and he is proving that now as constant updates about his recent troubles are reminding us that when [...]

Tim McCarver made an analogy on Saturday that sparked a media firestorm not seen since the similarly controversial Titus Flavius Josephus compared 1st century Rome’s decadence to that of Old Testament cities Sodom and Gomorrah while he was covering chariot races at the Flavian Amphitheatre.  
The Jewish historian made his comments in regard to the newly built Colosseum in Rome, a historic stadium [...]

The knucklecurve initially sparked my interest back in April when Baseball America named Drew Pomeranz as their mid-season player of the year.  The article highlighted the Ole Miss southpaw who would go on to be selected 5th overall in last month’s MLB draft.  The article also highlighted his primary out-pitch, which is a big curve with a unique method of delivery.  [...]

I got a phone call from my buddy the other day. Since we’re in the same fantasy baseball league we often talk fantasy baseball. Since he is a lot like me and has woeful pitching in our fantasy league (we currently rank last and next to last in ERA and WHIP) we often talk of the latest disaster starts [...]

You pick your own particular poison when you write an article in which the theme assumes a great deal is already written on a subject.  You do so doubly when the subject is something as surreal as Armando Gallaraga’s run at baseball history Wednesday night.  I suppose it’s an occupational hazard when one sees a game end like that [...]

On May 29, the San Francisco Giants called up their best prospect, catcher Buster Posey , for his 2010 debut.  Posey was a September call-up last year, but he only appeared in 7 games and the Giants management spent the off-season downplaying Posey’s chances of winning the starting catcher job for 2010, deeming the 23 year-old unprepared for the rigors [...]

Unheralded Jose Bautista, overpaid Vernon Wells, and journeyman Alex Gonzalez lead a Toronto Blue Jay team that many of the brightest minds in baseball felt would struggle to compete in the mighty A.L. East.  Instead, the Blue Jays are 27-21, and although they may still likely end up quite a bit behind the division leaders by the end of the [...]

Miguel Cabrera ended his 2009 season, quite literally, in disgrace.  His team, the Detroit Tigers, blew a three game lead with four games left in the season and had to play a tie-breaker against the Twins.  Such a collapse had never happened in MLB history.  But, that was only part of the bad news, as Cabrera played [...]

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders evolved from a U.S. army manual combined with a psychiatric hospital study.  About half a century ago, the first edition came out and it is now the go-to reference for shrinks and insurance companies to classify mental conditions based on defined behaviors.  It’s got an update in production, due sometime in 2013.  [...]

The Mets were under .500 and struggling to score runs the first couple of weeks of the season.  Manager Jerry Manuel wanted to shake up his sputtering lineup.  This is the Mets, after all.  A team with an enormous payroll, huge market, and a recent history of underachieving despite those advantages.  Big market teams sometimes feel the pressure a [...]