Cubs Hope This Isn't Deja Vu

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Cubs Hope This Isn’t Deja Vu

Being a Cubs fan is a soul crushing experience.  The faint whispering of “Here we go again” must be constantly ringing in their head.  The 2016 North Siders were supposed to be different.  This was the year that Chicagoans had been waiting for for over a century.  They have the offense.  They have the pitching.… Continue reading Cubs Hope This Isn’t Deja Vu

ASG Final Vote: Who Do You Got?

I for one love the concept of the Final Vote.  Major League Baseball gives the fans one last chance to right a wrong from themselves or the managers.  The only way a player could get in after the fact beforehand was through an injury replacement.  While many of those still come to pass every year,… Continue reading ASG Final Vote: Who Do You Got?

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

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