Today’s Trivia contest is being sponsored by Fundex Games. Fundex makes a lot of wonderful games, but they also feature a free jigsaw puzzle club, and a lot of MLB licensed products. Today’s prize is very cool. Its Scrabble, but with a baseball theme. The tile racks represent teams, the [...]

With Bobby Valentine announced as the new manager for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Cashman wasted no time in upping the ante to his new rival.  Yesterday, Cashman challenged Valentine, 17 years his elder, to rappel down the side of the Stamford, CT building which Cashman has made a yearly event.  This Peter Botte piece [...]

Jorge Posada, at the black-tie dinner for his retirement Wednesday night, announced that his time in pin-stripes was over, and though he hasn’t officially decided whether he will play for another team, Mark Feinsand believes retirement is around the corner.  There are a few teams that are rumored to have expressed interest in Jorge, so [...]

St. Louis Cardinals’ manager Tony La Russa has spent nearly a half century in baseball and has accomplished more feats than most of his peers.  An underlooked part of his life has been his charity, Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF), which has been around for more than 20 years.
Created in 1991 by Tony [...]

Well, I was completely wrong about the American League Division Series- both of them.  The Rays didn’t have enough momentum or enough bats to carry them past the Texas Rangers.   The other series though I wasn’t as far off on, though I was still off.  The Yankees and the Tigers were very closely matched, so [...]