Just pointing you to a couple of well-written and fun game stories.  The first, out of Chicago, by Paul Sullivan is nicely written piece which gets your blood pumping as the Cubs come from way behind.  Wrigley must have been jumping, and you can almost hear the crowd.  Dodger fans were also happy last night as [...]

With the College World Series, and draft day fast approaching, I thought this might be a great story to share.  Few of us who watch the pro game know that much about the world of college baseball, but the University of Miami, the top national seed this year, has one of the best coaches around [...]

So, yesterday, my least favorite NY writer, Mike Lupica, wrote an interesting article about the perception that the Latin players don’t get along with the other players in the Mets clubhouse, and that they end-run Willie by going to Omar Minaya, who shot the theory down as ridiculous.  The fact that the article was written [...]

So I was at Shea last night for the first Willie win after his job was saved, which, not so coincidentally also was the first game Johan Santana pitched.  A couple of quick thoughts about it, a few people started to boo at the beginning and a fan near me stood up and yelled “DON’T [...]

So remember when the Tigers set a record for games lost a few years ago, then made the surprising run and almost win of the World Series in 2006?  Well, the Giants have been selling 2008 as a rebuilding year, yet as Henry Schulman writes, it really isn’t a true rebuilding year of any kind.  The [...]

Well, it may not be a feel good story if you are a Yankee or Boston fan, but I’m trying to get away from talking about the underachieving teams, at least for one day.  The Rays, who have won 14 of their last 18, are the first team (since 1900)  to have the best record [...]