Have the Baltimore Orioles Hit The Bottom?
I want to start this piece by making it clear that I have been a loyal fan of the Baltimore Orioles for 40 years and hope to be a fan for another 40 years. While Tommy Lasorda may bleed Dodger blue, I bleed Orioles Orange. For that reason, the start to the 2010 season has […]
The Red Sox 5-9 Start is Nothing to Worry About
Before last night’s walk off win thanks to OF Darnell “I’m Loving It!” McDonald’s walk off hit, the Red Sox had lost their last five games and 9 out of their last 12, after opening the season with a win against the Yankees. McDonald actually went 2 for 2 with 2 clutch hits, the first […]
Pizza Used as Projectile in a Red Sox – Angels Game
Late in a game between the Red Sox and the Angels (I’m assuming it’s from 2009, but I’m not too sure), on a foul ball down the left field line at Boston’s Fenway Park, a fan gets abused by both food and drink when the ball goes into the stands. The best part about this […]
Baltimore Orioles 2010: What Will Define Success?
With the start of the 2010 baseball season now upon us, those around the Baltimore Orioles are cautiously optimistic that after more than a decade of decay, the team is ready to turn things around. The big question, given their current streak of 12 consecutive losing seasons, is what would be considered a successful season […]
BOSTON BASEBALL CHARITY WINES RETURN
JACOBY ELLSBURY & JOSH BECKETT MAKE ROSTER OVERVIEW Debuting from Longball Cellars are charity wines for Boston baseball stars Jacoby Ellsbury and Josh Beckett. The players do not profit a single dime. Instead, 100% of their proceeds will raise big league dollars for local charities: Jacoby Ellsbury: ZinfandEllsbury – benefiting the Navajo Relief Fund, Project […]
Red Sox Announce Starting Rotation
Red Sox manager Terry Francona has announced his starting rotation when the team breaks camp for the regular season. There are no big surprises, as Josh Beckett will be the ‘ace’ of the staff, leading off. Dice K Matsuzaka simplified things by needing extra time to prepare for the 2010 season, making the number five […]
Sal Fasano Back With the Jays, With a New Role
One of the most popular part-time players of recent memory will return to the Blue Jays organization, marking a new chapter in his baseball career. Sal Fasano recently retired as a player and has been appointed as manager of the Toronto Blue Jays Single-A minor league team, the Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League. The […]
Sox Prospect Lars Anderson Making Best of Spring Training
Highly touted Red Sox prospect Lars Anderson is making the best of Spring Training this year in Ft Myers. MLB.com listed him as one of baseball’s top 25 prospects last year, so he has a lot to live up to. Lars has appeared in five of the Sox first seven pre-season games this spring, but […]
Aaron Bates Having A Productive Spring Training with the Red Sox
One week into spring training and Red Sox first base prospect Aaron Bates is among the team leaders in games played and hitting. The right handed 26 year old has a .300 batting average after appearing in six of the teams first seven games. He is pleased with his strong start, and is enjoying camp […]
Nomar Garciaparra Signs with Red Sox, Quickly Announces Retirement
Nomar Garciaparra signed a minor league deal this morning with the Boston Red Sox, then promptly announced his retirement at a 10:30 AM press conference. Joining Nomar at the press conference were President/CEO Larry Lucchino and Executive Vice President/General Manager Theo Epstein. Several friends and family members of Garciaparra were on hand, including wife Mia […]
Michael Bowden to Start for Red Sox on Saturday
Image by firebrandal via Flickr One of the Red Sox top right handed pitching prospects will be making his 2010 Spring Training debut as a starter for the big league club this Saturday. Michael Bowden will get the call to face the Pirates at City of Palms Park in Ft. Myers. Bowden has pitched two […]
Eri Yoshida Pitches for Tim Wakefield
Image via Wikipedia Here are some of the quotes from the knuckleballers from an article on NESN.com where these videos came from by Michael Hurley entitled, “Tim Wakefield Offers Pitching Advice to 18-Year-Old Female Knuckleballer Eri Yoshiba“. “I was very impressed,” Wakefield said. “It’s an honor to have somebody to carry on a knuckleball tradition, […]
Yankees Say Goodbye – and Hello – to Old Faces
The New York Yankees may be coming off their 27th World Championship, but Brian Cashman didn’t spend much time this offseason basking in the afterglow of the title. Instead, he made significant changes to reshape the team. But not everybody in Yankeeland is happy with those changes. Most fans figured that either World Series MVP […]
My Guest Appearance on Pro Rumors TV
Here is the video from my guest appearance on Pro Rumors TV this past Saturday night, 2/20/10. The two hosts are live and they called me up as their guest that night. By the way, I had topics of interest to go by, but that last question wasn’t on the list they gave me, hence […]
The Pitchers and Catchers Have Seen Their Shadow: Seven More Weeks Of Spring!
This past week the light of spring peeked through the tunnel of winter. Pitchers and Catchers reported to Major League Baseball teams around the country. The soreness of unused muscles began to set in, not of those players reporting, but of those fans anxiously awaiting a new baseball season. There are many interesting story lines, […]
Baltimore Orioles: Keys for a Successful 2010
With Spring Training starting and the 2010 baseball season only weeks away, it is the time of the year when fans of the Baltimore Orioles can start dreaming that maybe this is the year that our decade long nightmare ends. The Orioles were not among the most aggressive or highest spending teams in the offseason, […]
Pro Rumors Podcast Tomorrow Night
Hey everyone, tune in to www.prorumors.com or blog.prorumors.com tomorrow night (Saturday, February 20th) at 7pm PST (10pm EST). I’ll be talking with them about the Boston Red Sox, the AL East and of course the New York Yankees.
Pro Rumors Podcast Saturday Night
Hey everyone, tune in to www.prorumors.com or blog.prorumors.com Saturday night (February 20th) at 7pm PST (10pm EST). I’ll be talking with them about the Boston Red Sox, the AL East and of course the New York Yankees.
A Monday in the Offseason: Dustin Pedrioa (video)
Here’s the second video of a workout day in the life of…by NESN on a member of the Boston Red Sox. If you haven’t guessed by the title, this video follows Boston’s Diminutive Bad Boy, 2B Dustin Pedroia at his home in Arizona. Check it out and tell us what you think. What you liked […]
Jason Varitek’s Pre-Season Workout Video (2009-2010)
If you are anything like me, you wonder what catchers have to go through in the offseason to prepare for a season of 162 games. Well here’s a video showing us a typical day in Red Sox captain and part time catcher (I am having problems calling him a back up after all of these […]
DRSEA INFORMER: Home Court Advantage
Volume III, Issue 2 By Charles Farrell La Ventaja De Campo (Home Court Advantage) In what looks like a continuing trend, a court in the Dominican Republic has ordered the New York Yankees to pay more than $750,000USD to Carlos Rios, their former director of Latin American scouting, after ruling that his firing was unlawful. […]
Blue Jays Reflections on the New GM
Greetings from the frozen north, and man is it frozen this winter. Anyway, what has been going on with the Jays? Well, we are about 100 days into the career of our new GM Alex Anthopoulos and so far most reviews are positive. His first few steps have been to beef up our scouting department […]
Things to Know About Watching Games at Yankee Stadium
Our friends from Zell’s Pinstripe Blog recently shared with us a few lists of theirs and we thought it would be great to share these with you here today.As we all know that a game in the Bronx is unlike any other experiences in sports. Not only is a game at Yankee Stadium a unique […]
Same Old Off-Season: The Rich Get Richer and the Orioles Watch
Image via Wikipedia After enduring another long and disappointing season on the field in 2009, the 2009-2010 off-season was supposed to be the start of a new day for the Baltimore Orioles. With enough quality young pitchers to fill two rotations and a nucleus of talented young position players, this was to be the off-season […]
Red Sox Sign Their New Left Fielder
Image via Wikipedia Every blogger’s and journalist’s favorite Hot Stove Baseball site, MLB Trade Rumors has reported (by Zach Link) that the Red Sox have signed 36 year old OF Mike Cameron. It is a reported two year deal worth around $15M. Cameron will play LF and give the Red Sox one of the best […]
Boston Rumored To Be Close To Signing Lackey
Image by Getty Images via Daylife It has been reported by Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors, via Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports and AOL FanHouse’s Ed Price that top free agent pitcher, starter John Lackey is in Boston for a physical. Players usually only take physicals in the area of a local team after […]
Pedroia Might Play SS in 2010
Image via Wikipedia The Sox second half SS, Alex Gonzalez recently signed with the rival Toronto Blue Jays. Also, the organization is uncertain about the ability of Jed Lowrie to play everyday in 2010 after his injury woes. That leaves the Red Sox brass with a choice to make! Do they sign a free agent […]
Yankees’ Ten Most Pivotal Postseason Performers
As the New York Yankees bask in the afterglow of their unprecedented 27th World Championship, let’s take a look back at the ten biggest contributors to that title. Without these men, the Yankees’ postseason might have ended a lot earlier: 1. Alex Rodriguez: After the Yankees won the World Series, A-Rod looked to be the […]
Yankees Manager Girardi Risks Life After 27th Championship
Image by Keith Allison via Flickr So, when interviewers asked Yankees manager Joe Girardi where he was going after managing the NY Yankees to their 27th World Series Championship, did he say he would be going to Disneyland? Maybe he did, I don’t know because being a Red Sox fan I didn’t keep the TV […]
Many Yankee moments to remember in September
The last month of the New York Yankees‘ season could have been anticlimactic – they essentially clinched the AL East when they swept the Boston Red Sox in four games in August. But the Bombers still ended up turning it on throughout the stretch, even when they rested players to tune up for October. Here […]
