Sinclair Broadcast Group Buy into Regional Sports Networks a Gamble
Imagine if gambling and reduced viewership were the future of baseball? Take a closer look at baseball back at the turn of the 20th century. The days when the game was vituperative and truculent, yet continued to not only grow …
Baseball and Thoroughbreds: Trouble Ahead?
Baseball: sport or business? In a New York Times article on the unnecessary deaths of thoroughbred racehorses at major racetracks around the country, including Santa Anita Park and Churchill Downs, Joe Drape quotes Tim Ritvo, the Chief Operating Officer of …
Brodie Van Wagenen Leads Another Hapless Season of Futility for Mets
Admittedly, it’s early, but it certainly seems as if Seattle mugged the Mets in broad daylight in December 2018. As in so many other recent seasons, the Mets are once again stumbling out of the gate to the certainty of …
Better Luck Next Time, Chris Sale
Poor Chris Sale It’s bad enough that Chris Sale’s breaking pitches are sweeping across home plate on a hittable plane, affording batters juicy looks at pitches that once bewitched them, but then batters smack the ball straight at a Boston …
What is Gary Sanchez Thinking?
The Beauty of Baseball It’s a slow game. Plenty of time to contemplate the good, the bad, and the ugly. And Thursday night’s Yankees 11-5 loss to the Los Angeles Angels featured a little of each, and in that sequential …
Luke Voit Delivers the Wow for Depleted Yankees
Oh, that Luke … … is Luke Voit. The big first baseman. Home-run hitter. And the man making Yankee fans forget … Greg who? Greg Bird. Oh. Him. Yawn. Injured again? Too bad. So, asking Luke Voit what have you …
New York Yankees Surprise with Oldtimers & Youngsters
A Competitive Blend The New York Yankees are now a blend of the old—see CC Sabathia and J.A. Happ—and the young and inexperienced, most of the rest of the squad. Mike Tauchman, Mike Ford, Gio Urshela, Tyler Wade and Kyle Higashioka …
Tigers Take Two: Can I Believe My Eyes?
Once Every Fifty Years … A surreal moment in time occurred in Boston on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. It last occurred on that exact spot more than half a century ago in 1965. Once every fifty years … What happened? …
Would You Pitch to Mike Trout?
Would You? Why would any team throw strikes to Mike Trout, as things stand right now with the Los Angeles Angels? When the game is on the line, would any rational manager allow his pitcher to throw a fastball to …
Battlelines Drawn with Red Sox & Yankees Emerging; Welcome Gen Z-ers
An Alarm Clock Rings in Boston Well, it seems the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees both woke up this weekend. The Red Sox, in particular, reminded the upstart Tampa Bay Rays they won the American League East …
