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For a baseball purist like myself, Opening Day is like Christmas. It's pretty much the greatest event of the year outside of the annual hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island. Opening Day is a tradition at the beginning of every new Major League Baseball season. Falling somewhere around the...
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There will be joy in Mudville when mighty Manny advances to the bat. It’s sunny, the band is playing, hearts are light, men are laughing, and children are shouting. “Manny is here”. Yes, Manny-mania has returned to Chavez Ravine. After an often tense, four-month negotiation...
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Teixeira signs with the Yanks, K Rod goes to the Mets, and Manny Ramirez is out of the contention for Anaheim. This years off-season woes begin with last seasons trade of Casey Kotchman for Mark Teixeira, and now the Angles have neither. Instead the Angels are assigning first base...
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Who said Christmas doesn’t come early? It does if you ask New York Yankees fans. It looks like the Yankees are doing a lot more to move out of the past and into future besides just moving into their pricey new ballpark in 2009. They will have the 4 highest paid players...
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So I have a 12-year old son that is in his first year of junior high school. I know you feel sorry for me. But don’t, he really is a good kid for the most. Every evening we gather around the dinner table to partake in a delectable meal that mom has prepared, and swap...
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Are the Cubs finished in this postseason? You lose two straight at home to open a best-of-5 series and you practically deserve to get ousted. Four errors, a bases-loaded double by Russell Martin, another home run from Manny Ramirez-his 26th career post-season homer, and seven...
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I would have to say that my favorite memory of Yankee Stadium, if not for the many references in the hit television show “Seinfield”, would be Aaron Boones game winning homerun against the Boston Red Sox, or Johnny Damons upper deck homerun as a member of the Red Sox....
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Whether it’s major league sports or your little brothers Pop Warner football league, everyone these days seem to be tough on many of our sports officials. Some that are top paid professionals, and many who do not receive any indulgences for their service, and worse yet a lack of respect...
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At 71-43 the Angles have the best record in baseball, are on pace for the franchise's first 100-win season and lead the AL West by 10.5 games -- an advantage more than twice as big as that of any other first-place team -- and yet everyone associated with the Angels believes they can play even...
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y now we have heard all the propaganda by every media outlet pushing the change for instant replay to be implemented in Major league Baseball. However, with every decision there are pros and cons that must come with this decision. Some will argue for the implementation of instant replay saying...
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My wife is an amazing woman. I talked all Monday about how I wanted to stay up and watch the season opener for Major League Baseball. You know the Red Sox-A's game. The game at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. The one that started at 6 a.m. EST, errrrrr 3 a.m. in Bakersfield. Don't worry if you missed...
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