Yankees end long drought, win first title of the Third Millennium

The Third Millennium is a bit darker today, the air is denser making it tougher to inhale, and while the sun is out, it is nowhere near as bright as has been over the past nine years. Yes gone are the mid-Fall days where the roads that paved the morning commute were filled with bumps [...]

2009 MLB Playoff Predictions

Before I get to my fearless MLB post-season prediction, let’s look back at my regular season predictions, “project debrief” style:

NL West

What went well: I nailed the Dodgers and Rockies as the top two finishers of the division, respectively. But I failed to correctly call the Rockies as the Wild Card. I nailed the [...]

The Punch List for 2009-10-05

I am starting a new weekly column, called “The Punch List” that contains a weekly list of the five people I most want to punch in the face. Be forewarned, most of the people on this list will be there because they failed to meet my fantasy football expectations on the previous weekend.

Here is [...]

Stick a fork in them, they’re done!

Is there anything in the world worse than when someone gets in your head and absolutely owns you at something? I have a racquetball partner who owns me like that. It doesn’t matter what the score is, he always believes he can win. And what’s worse – I know it too.

Well, boys [...]

Minor League Catcher wins World Series in May

Imagine using chlorine as an eye-wetting replacement for Visine. Burns, right? That’s about how I feel after watching the Red Sox blow a ninth inning tonight to the Mets. I would almost rather have my scrotum nailed to a park bench while being attacked by an army of ants! OK, maybe that is a tad [...]

ALCS by the Numbers

0 – Hits by Manny Ramirez in a Red Sox uniform this post-season.
Side Tangent: I will admit I was a sheep and followed the general sentiment that “it was time for Manny to go”. However, my tune has changed and now I consider Manny nothing more than a child caught in a custody battle. He [...]

MLB Post-Season Division Series Wrap-up – Cubs/Dodgers

The Cubs are gone, the streak of futility continues! I just watched the last three outs of the Cubs season and I’m flabbergasted at how the best team in the NL for the entire season could have fallen so flat in the playoffs. If this were March, I would feel like my NCAA [...]

Yankee Fans, Celebrate like it’s Year 2000!

Finally, after 159 games the 2008 Yankees have defined their season – they were able to keep the Boston Paw Sox (yes, the Red Sox played a lineup full of minor leaguers) from the AL East title. With the 19-8 beat-down, the Rays backed into the AL East title and Yankee fans have bragging [...]

Sox v. Rays – 9/10/2008

Here I sit in the “Commons” at my church watching the Sox and Rays battle in extra innings. There is something calming about this place – to my left nine people are gathered around a four-top and are entrenched in a bible study. There are kids running around and playing games on the internet, basically [...]

Delivery for Mr. Papelbon

Flash forward to Friday, 9/12/2008, its afternoon in the Red Sox clubhouse, DHL (the official shipper of MLB) shows up with a package addressed to Jonathan Papelbon. Papelbon grabs the package, shakes it and rips through the outside wrapping to reveal a nicely wrapped package with an attached card. Paps grabs the card undoes the [...]