Baltimore Orioles Announce Return of Dave Trembley For 2010

At first reaction, the announcement on Friday that the Baltimore Orioles have retained the services of manager Dave Trembley for the 2010 season seems like a head-scratcher. After all, typically in professional sports the fate of a manger is judged by wins and losses and in that area Trembley has failed miserably. Since Trembley became […]

The Close of A New Season At New Stadiums

By Reed Terry For sports enthusiasts visiting New York in October, it is definitely the best time to attend a Mets or Yankees game, especially because both these teams have moved out into brand new, high tech stadiums. As the Major League Baseball season gets ready for the post-season, the Yankkees will kick off their […]

For The Cardinals, It Was A Stuttering September

It took a while, but finally September gave the Cardinals the moment they had been waiting for, a clinching celebration as they punched their tickets into the postseason as NL Central champs.  What happened between September 1 and September 26 to get to that point alternatively thrilled and concerned St. Louis fans as they try […]

10 Reasons the Angels will be in the ALCS

The Angels are headed to the ALCS, after they finally defeat their traditional post season nemesis, the Boston Red Sox.  Bet the house on it. Granted, it’s hard to come up with a solid baseball-based argument to support that bold statement.  The Red Sox have owned the Angels in the post season since Dave Henderson […]

SPBA: If You Blinked, You Missed It!

Senior Professional Baseball Association Back in the winter of 1989, former minor leaguer and Colorado real estate guru Jim Morley founded the Senior Professional Baseball Association after seeing the success of the Senior Golf Tour. After all, baseball is America’s favorite pastime, so why not play winter ball in the states with former major leaguers […]

Astros Fire Manager Cecil Cooper

If you were to write up a job description for the incoming manager of the Houston Astros in order to replace Cecil Cooper, who was fired yesterday, it would be a pretty long one. Must be able to work with handsy owner. Must be willing to work with mouthy veterans. Must be willing to play […]

Baseball Scores, But Game Suspended

A guest article by Charles S. Farrell from the DRSEA Informer Volume II, Issue 19: A Publication For Your Reading Enjoyment Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association got a split decision recently when a U.S. federal court of appeals ruled that federal agents went too far in seizing urine samples, drug […]

Friday Night Links: Contest

Image by Keith Allison via Flickr Tonight’s version of Friday Night Links will focus on a contest being run by our friends over at RAYS THE STAKES, a Tampa Bay Rays blog. The winner of this contest will get an autographed JASON BARTLETT (Rays SS) Upper Deck baseball card. This contest is being provided by […]

MLB Players Have NOT Hit it Off with Twitter

As reported by Gail Sideman of Mashable in her article entitled, “Twitter and Major League Baseball: A Missed Opportunity“, major league baseball players have not taken to Twitter like players in other major sports have. Image by Keith Allison via Flickr You hear about NBA players like Shaq and NFL players like T.O. using Twitter […]

Sugar: The Movie now on DVD

Back in July I was informed of the DVD release of the movie “SUGAR”, but as life can sometimes be hectic, I haven’t gotten to write about it until now. “SUGAR” came out on Blu-ray and DVD on September 1st. So if you are a fan of the Dominican Republic’s brand of baseball, “SUGAR” give […]

New York Yankees Are Sailing, But Not Coasting

As the New York Yankees head down the stretch towards the end of the season, they’re in even better shape than they were in July. And that’s really saying something, given that they went 18-9 in that month. In August, the Yankees went an incredible 21-7 (a .750 winning percentage). They ended the month – […]

The Curse of the American League

Image by Keith Allison via Flickr At this point, we have to begin to discuss the possibility of an official curse – for the third time in four years one of the American League’s elite homerun hitters has suffered a season ending injury in September, and for the second year in a row it may […]

Introducing The Funnel AFL 11 from Akadema

There are a few scents that I know of that really wake me up. One is the smell of freshly cut grass (especially that of Fenway Park as smelled from behind the Green Monster), freshly cut wood, the smell of a new leather baseball glove and a certain perfume that my wife wears which I […]

A Stephen Strasburg Warning for the Nats

Washington Nationals fans had been set up for disappointment all season long. No Nats fans had any reason to think the August 17th deadline to sign draft picks would be any different. It was only a year after the club had failed to sign their 2008 first round draft pick, Aaron Crow. A circus of […]

100 INNINGS OF BASEBALL Benefitting Curt’s Pitch for ALS

CURT SCHILLING’S ALS AWARENESS EFFORTS CONTINUE 6th ANNUAL, 100 INNINGS OF BASEBALL ANNOUNCED Contest expected to surpass $500,000 raised overall. Ballplayers of All Abilities Are Encouraged to Participate! Quincy – Stock up on the peanuts and cracker jacks. Boston-based sports marketing firm, Charity Hop, in conjunction with Curt Schilling and the ALS Association of Massachusetts, […]

Breaking News: The Rays Are Sellers, and Looking Towards 2010

They’ve done it. I asked them to. I suggested it. But I didn’t expect them to do it. But they did it. I can’t believe they actually did it. Image via Wikipedia The Tampa Bay Rays have traded Scott Kazmir. My logic at the beginning of the season was as sound then as it is […]

Forgotten No More: The Story of Baseball in Baltimore

The history of baseball in Baltimore since the St. Louis Browns moved to the city in 1954 has been well chronicled. However, until now, the great history of baseball in Baltimore prior to the arrival of Major League Baseball has gone largely unrecognized. That is about to change with the release this fall of the […]

Friday Night Links

This edition of Friday Night Links introduce you to a new baseball site that has just recently launched. If you’re an NBA fan, have visited The Hoop Doctors and have enjoyed your treatment the doctors there have provided then you will be happy to know that they have multiple spinoff sites. But, before that be […]

What If? The Lost Years of Williams, DiMaggio and Feller

The names Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio and Bob Feller conjure up images of greatness on the baseball diamond, but a lack of overwhelming career statistics often hurts these superstars when the discussion turns to the greatest players in baseball history. What is generally forgotten is that all three missed significant time in the prime of […]

WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon

Image by wallyg via Flickr Join me in raising the awareness to the wonderful work of The Jimmy Fund, the Boston Red Sox official charity for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund was founded in 1948 and made popular by the generosity and support of the late great Red Sox LF Ted Williams. To […]

Jacoby Ellsbury Sets A New Red Sox SB Record

On Tuesday, August 25th, “the human spark plug”, Jacoby Ellsbury made Red Sox history by stealing third base for his 55th stolen base of the season. The previous mark was set by former first base coach Tommy Harper who had secured the record over the past 35 years, but he knew Ellsbury was going to […]

WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon

Image by GregPC via Flickr Join me in raising the awareness to the wonderful work of The Jimmy Fund, the Boston Red Sox official charity for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund was founded in 1948 and made popular by the generosity and support of the late great Red Sox LF Ted Williams. To […]

A Glove of Their Own: A Book Review

If you think that youth baseball today has gotten too competitive and structured with All Star Leagues and travel teams, allow me to bring you back to a simpler time. Have any of you ever played just for the fun of the game in a non-league setting? Do you remember playing pick-up games with less […]

Helton Reaches Career Milestone

Amidst the ups and downs of playing for a small-medium market club for your career Todd Helton has been about the only constant in a Colorado Rockies uniform.  Todd’s 13 year MLB career in my opinion has been Cooperstown worthy. He is a career .320 hitter, 300 plus home-runs and 500 doubles and counting. Image […]

Baseball Reflection’s MLB Keychain Raffle

Welcome to the first, and hopefully not last, Baseball Reflections Keychain Raffle sponsored by WholesaleKeychain.com. We will be raffling off 9 MLB team keychains. There will be links below to the WholesaleKeychain.com page of the 9 teams (these links will open up in a new tab or page) selected for this raffle. There will be […]

Reflections on the Brewers at the Trade Deadline

The Milwaukee Brewers are in a precarious situation. A team that was built from the inside with three-fourths of an infield (Prince Fielder, Rickie Weeks, J.J. Hardy), a pair of slugging corner outfielders (Ryan Braun, Corey Hart) and an ace in the making (Yovani Gallardo), is now being looked at as thin when it comes […]

Friday Night Links

This week’s installment of links will focus on a repeat of Saturday night’s review of WholesaleKeychain.com and their MLB keychains. But there’s a lot more than just MLB keychains there, in fact, they are only a small portion of the types of keychains they provide. Here’s a list of some of the others: Automotive Muscle […]

Yesterday, Buehrle Was Perfect!

Image via Wikipedia Mark Buehrle led the White Sox to victory in grand fashion today, by tossing a perfect game, and his second career no-hitter.  His first came on April 18th, 2007, also at U.S. Comiscular Field.  This is only the 18th perfect game in MLB history, Randy Johnson being the last to do so […]

Boston Adds a Bat

The Red Sox have aquired a new left handed bat and insurance if 3B Mike Lowell needs to miss any time in the second half. This will be an upgrade over Jeff Bailey, Adam Bates and even Mark Kotsay (who can still play in the OF). Here is what Boston’s sports talk radio station WEEI, […]

Steriods, It’s Not All Equal!

On Monday night, July the 13th., we managed to see 7 of the best home run hitters in baseball and Brandon Inge get together in an attempt to put on a power display where batting practice pitchers grooved balls at 70—75 MPH and in turn the likes of Pujols, Fielder, Cruz, and Howard deposited them […]

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