June has been a banner month for Cleveland sports. LeBron James and the Cavaliers are the NBA champions. The win ended a 52 year title drought for the city. That good fortune seems like it is rubbing off on the Cleveland Indians. The Tribe are on fire right now and there doesn’t look like an… Continue reading Break Up The Indians
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Texas Rangers Laughing At Adversity
A baseball season is grueling. It is 162 games in a half a year’s time. Injuries will happen. Players will get suspended. Bouts of infirmity are inevitable. Since every team deals with these, it is a true test of character to overcome them and still produce. No team has done that more over these first… Continue reading Texas Rangers Laughing At Adversity
Jose Reyes Designated For Assignment
The Jose Reyes era in Colorado came to an end yesterday. His unceremoniously short tenure with the Rockies came to a close with a designation for assignment. The main return in the Troy Tulowitzki trade didn’t even last a full year at Coors Field. An offseason domestic violence saga can have that effect. But where… Continue reading Jose Reyes Designated For Assignment
Madison Bumgarner Making MVP Case
The current state of the MLB Most Valuable Player awards started in 1931. Since then, a pitcher has won the honor just 22 times between the two leagues. There were significant droughts in both leagues in pitcher MVP victories, but the NL’s was much longer. Clayton Kershaw took home the NL MVP in 2014, the… Continue reading Madison Bumgarner Making MVP Case
Shhh, People Are Sleeping On The Seattle Mariners
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Seattle Mariners. As a person who makes yearly preseason prognostications, there is always that team that regularly makes you look foolish. That team that no matter how many times you pick them, or pick against them, you never can win. The M’s are the epitome… Continue reading Shhh, People Are Sleeping On The Seattle Mariners
Should The Red Sox Cash In?
The Boston Red Sox are off to a fantastic start in 2016. After two years in the cellar of the American League East, Boston currently has the most wins in the AL and are in a virtual tie for first place in the division. They have the best run differential in the AL (+57) and… Continue reading Should The Red Sox Cash In?
The Mike Trout Conundrum
There is a time in every generation of baseball that a player comes through and wows everybody. They are a phenom in whatever position they play and their statistics immediately rank among the finest the sport has produced. Mike Trout is one of those players. But at the moment, his talents are being squandered on… Continue reading The Mike Trout Conundrum
Not So Happy Harvey Day
It was a greeting that Mets fans would commonly use to one another over the past few seasons. When their ace was on the mound, a simple “Happy Harvey Day” was uttered and any Mets fan within listening radius would respond in kind. But through a month and change of the 2016 season, those days… Continue reading Not So Happy Harvey Day
NL Central One-Upping Themselves
The National League Central Division put together one of the finest collaborative seasons in MLB history last year. They put three teams into the playoffs, all winning 97 games or more. St. Louis continued to excel winning 100 games. The Pirates also kept their run of tremendous form going taking the first Wild Card with… Continue reading NL Central One-Upping Themselves
Macho Manny Machado
The Baltimore Orioles have come out of the gate in 2016 like gangbusters. Predicted by many, including myself, to be in the AL East cellar, the O’s have grasped first place firmly. While their pitching is still ironing out the kinks, the offense has been humming along smoothly. Home runs are leaving the park regularly… Continue reading Macho Manny Machado