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Your LCS Last Meal
The day of execution draws near; by the beginning of November, you will be a lifeless, soulless, baseball-less blob for the next five months. By the grace of human decency, you get to choose your...
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A Fitting Payback
After Matt Holliday went all offensive lineman on Marco Scutaro last night, I thought it was apt that the Giants took out their frustration and anger on the baseball and not the man himself. In the...
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World Series Preview
I need to begin this World Series preview with two caveats. First, last week I made an extremely premature prediction, when the Cardinals were leading the NLCS 3-1, that they would be playing the...
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Man Up, Yankee Fans
Every morning I go on the Google and ask it about the Yankees. Usually, I get my fill from the NY Times and the NJ Star-Ledger but if I’m not satisfied like after the risotto, I keep reading. I...
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And with a Flute Up Its Nose, the 2012 World Series!
Everyone ready for Game 1 tonight? The excitement of that Justin Verlander/Angel Pagan match-up just eating you up inside? Yeah, me neither. Well baseball fans, get amped: it’s the 2012 World Series...
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Could Tim Lincecum lead a bullpen revolution?
Although a Giants victory in last night’s World Series Game 1 was rarely in doubt, the closest the Tigers came to making it a competitive came in the top of the sixth inning. Trailing 6-0, Detroit...
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Fading Hope
As the 2012 Major League Baseball playoffs forged on over the past few weeks, I have found myself imbued with a sense of inevitability that the Detroit Tigers – my beloved Tigers, the team I’ve lived...
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Angel Pagan: The Taco The Town
We sat here like non-tendered free-agents past our prime in front of tvs at the local pub on a misty day in a city on a victory high like no other. The Yankees have 27 championships, but not in a row....
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Freakin’ At The Freaker’s Ball
There is always a point in every Padre fan’s season where one can finally jot the Bic to the page and say “That’s it. Season over.” It is usually a week or so after the scheduled debilitating losing...
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Five Silly Reasons I’m Rooting For The Cardinals
People are always saying it’s hard not be romantic about baseball. It’s hard not to root for the underdog. Well, I’m not much of a romantic and I’m allergic to dogs. When the Yankees didn’t make the...
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Closure From The West Coast
On Thursday, October 11, 2012, San Francisco Giants backstop Buster Posey hit a grand slam off of Reds starter Mat Latos and subsequently ended the post season run for Cincinnati. Game five of the...
View ArticleMy Pick: Awesomeness
I’m honestly giddy about the World Series and why not? Two teams that have survived every nail-biting moment through the wild card game and then being the underdog in both the divisional series and the...
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Sources: San Francisco Bans More Than Just Lorde
Radio stations in San Francisco, following the direction from listeners, have banned Lorde’s “Royals” until the World Series ends. Like it matters. Kansas City Royals are going 12-0. My sources in San...
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Perez/Royals Back In The Game…Now What?
Salvador Perez was flat-out sloppy in game 1 of the World Series. The catcher for the Kansas City Royals wasn’t framing pitches and he wasn’t blocking them either. Sloppines Charles Sollars / Flickr s...
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How About That?
Where to start with game four of the World Series? The Kansas City Royals deciding fastballs were okay to throw to Giants noted fastball killer Hunter Pence? Royals reliever Danny Duffy abandoning...
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Apologies to Ned
Charles Sollars / flickr It’s possible, likely even, or maybe just hypothetical, or imaginary, that I might have been wrong about Kansas City Royals’ manager Ned Yost’s use of James Shields in the...
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History Means Nothing, But Pitching Does
. Two dozen pitchers are available for tonight’s game, and we may see most of them tonight. Throughout the postseason, though, the San Francisco Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy and Kansas City...
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World Series Champions 2014: A Book Review
I’m not really a coffee table book kinda person. Mostly because my coffee table is busy holding a box of tissues, cookie crumbs and teacup stains. But I do like the idea of a book you can put on your...
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