If Carlos Zambrano had been born in Muenster, Indiana instead of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela we’d probably all make a much bigger deal about his back and forth 2010 season than we really are. But, because he’s not, we don’t even care when he has an interview on ESPN focused on his anger issues. This has nothing [...]
The Red Sox went and beat up on the Bombers at Yankee Stadium Friday night, and did exactly what they needed to do to stay relevant in the AL East. Coming into Friday, the Sox were 6 games back in the AL East and for lack of better words; they needed to sweep the Yanks [...]
here was no one who breathed a sigh of relief harder and longer than new Texas Rangers majority owner, Nolan Ryan on Thursday morning. The aging Texan, who in a previous life was the author of seven no-hitters, became majority owner of the Rangers along with Pittsburgh attorney Chuck Greenberg as part of the group [...]
GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!! I had to do that. A Swift Recap of U.S. Soccer and Where it Should Go When Landon Donovan strode forth and spear-headed that errant FIFA World Cup soccer ball into the open Algerian net a lot of things happened. The most important one to me was the thought that went through my head [...]
Milton Bradley and Steve Consalvi Headline; MLB Legends Pass It usually happens like this. Everything is going great, there’s no drama, no over-excited story that garners far more national attention than it deserves, and all of a sudden the stories hit like a thunderstorm in a Michigan summer. Of course, we’re talking about the 2010 [...]
Dustin Pedroia Opens Season the Same Way He Deals With Life He steps up to the plate with his hat tugged low on a line that meets his eyebrows. He is shorter than the home plate umpire but he gives the impression he could care less. His square, defined, jaw juts out a little as [...]
Sure, Jason Heyward Delivered, but Are Expectations Realistic? Heyward the next Aaron or Mays? Give him a shot first. This is a difficult storyline to write about unless you are fine with blowing things way out of proportion. The fact that a major league rookie hammered a three-run home run on the first swing of [...]
Andy Pettitte (46) argues with Joe West the homeplate umpire after the 3rd inning at the New York Yankees vs the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium Bud Selig has his own version of Health Care. Realigning baseball. It’s not a matter of if it’s coming, but when, [...]
Forget Tiger, Ben; Pujols Will Never Let Himself Be Anything But Great Tiger Woods’ off field antics were the reason companies such as Gatorade decided to move their marketing campaigns elsewhere. Ben Roethlisberger has lost his beef jerky endorsement for those same reasons. In an age where it seems another celebrity loses all credibility on [...]
Mitch Albom May Be Right: Are We Making Too Much of the NFL Draft? On the Thursday morning edition of the Detroit Free Press, columnist Mitch Albom laid out quite an argument against the NFL draft. First of all, while Albom may be an entertaining and successful writer, it’s columns like this that just turn [...]
2010 MLB Rookies Striking Out and Making Headlines Jason Heyward may be dominating the front page of the Rookie Times this year, but he’s not the only one worthy of mention. Not, by a long shot. Strikeouts aside, you native Detroiter’s you know of whom I speak. You see, baseball is a sport that is [...]
