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The Red Sox Problem
Do you know there are children born in the last month who have never experienced a Red Sox championship? Poor little guys. There’s always next year. And just what exactly does next year have in store for the defending champions? …
Where Have You Gone Charlie Hustle?
Baseball’s Issues If you read Phil Mushnick’s column in the New York Post the other day, entitled, Machado shows baseball places value on all the wrong qualities, you read an astute analysis about what’s wrong with baseball. Mushnick writes that baseball …
Reasons to be Nervous About Yankees Pitching?
Nervous Nellie Approach Once again, reading some of the sportswriters in the New York press this week feels like hysteria on steroids. The world is coming to an end at Yankee Stadium because the Yankees did not sign Patrick Corbin, Nathan …
This Week in Baseball – Winter Meetings, Goldschmidt Traded, Harper Out, White House, RIP Valbuena-Castillo
Winter Is Coming… Major League Baseball will be gathering in Las Vegas this year for their annual Winter Meetings. There’s all kinds of league business to discuss as well as the Rule 5 Draft. But what fans really care about …
Baseball Was “Berry, Berry Good” to Luis Valbuena—Until it Got Him Killed
Most people have heard the old SNL catchphrase of Chico Escuela, a former Cubs All-Star brought to life by Garrett Morris back in the late 1970s. Sammy Sosa used to say it to reporters, as proof that success on the …
5 Questions for the Winter Meetings
After the Red Sox won the World Series and the league as a whole moved into offseason mode, many believed this would be one of the more interesting in the last few years. Even before the Winter Meetings have gotten …
Hot Stove Musings: Patrick Corbin Auction (Greed Personified) and the Middling Mets
Four, Five, or Six Years? Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported the Yankees decided they wanted to go four years on Patrick Corbin, but then decided to add a fifth year to the contract. Then they were told …
Sexual Assault in Sports: Cool Those Jets, Boys
Sports and the Lack of Personal Discipline The beauty of competition. Fire. Emotion. The spirit of the challenge. The home run. Touchdown catch. The strikeout. The diving tackle. Strong, gifted athletes displaying their athletic prowess on a field of play. …
Meme-O-Random: Knickers the Cow
Knickers the Australian cow and Aaron Judge are both freaks of nature that stand mightily above all others, though Knicker has less opposite field power. Check out more funny baseball memes in Off Base. Or like our Facebook page: The Baseball …
Mets Hit Home Run with Robinson Cano Trade
When the New York Mets hired new general manager Brodie Van Wagenen, he told everyone the team was going to be in win-now mode. And while it was easy to dismiss his comments, he has taken a huge first step …
