Last Saturday’s game between the Kansas City Royals and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim at Angel Stadium was barely a blip on the radar as far as most people were concerned. If it received any attention at all from most sports news organizations, it was to mention that KC’s phenomenal starter Zack Greinke [...]

This post has nothing to do with commentary.  Nothing to do with analysis.  Nothing to do with anything except pure love of sport.
Specifically, love of baseball and love of that sport’s magnificent history.
On April 21, I finally had the opportunity of seeing a game at Wrigley Field.  I tried, at the time, to post Live! [...]

Has anyone noticed the growing gangsterism in the look of baseball?
Has the baggy, long-pants uniforms and flat bills pulled low drawn a second glance?
It may be time for another look.
Of the major professional sports, Major League Baseball is the most tied to history. It’s woven far deeper into the American story than the NFL, NBA [...]

The top two teams on my hate list do not even play in the NFL…
FULL DISCLOSURE: I spent eight years as a student of Our Lady of Fatima Elementary School and Home for Sexually Frustrated Women in Penguin Costumes. My mission while I was there was to torture nuns. Their mission was to [...]

A few weeks ago we had an interesting discussion in the comments to Allan Gross’s The Next Bambino article about the worst fans in each of the four major professional US team sports. After observing some recent obnoxious, unknowledgeable bandwagon fan behavior (of a team that shall remain nameless), I recalled this Forbes article from [...]

I’ve been a subscriber to the MLB Online audio package for several years.  It’s only $14.95 for the year (as opposed to the $109.95/year for the video package), and for someone who lives out-of-market of his favorite team (such as myself), a convenient and inexpensive way to catch the games.
On Wednesday I tuned in to [...]

One game, that’s all it took for the Yankee faithful (the term is loosely applied here) to hit the big red panic button once again. Or maybe it’s just more over-exposure from their un-official network, ESPN (the same one that offers T.O. coverage far more than his relevance as a player should ever be [...]

One of the things I love about the beginning of April is how the Final Four/end of the college basketball season coincides perfectly with the beginning of the Major League Baseball season.  You couldn’t ask for a smoother transition from one major sport to another.
Of course, a sporting season is not an “era”, so why [...]

Editor’s Note: A new FierceAndNerdy.com cross-post.
Sunday night Japan eliminated Team USA in the Semi-Finals of the second World Baseball Classic by a score of 9-4.
Finishing third was a huge step up for the United States, which finished a woeful eighth three years ago in the augural Classic, barely making it out of the first round.
Hard [...]

Editor’s Note: My latest Smackcaster.com video. I recorded it on a different computer than my usual; some of the setting must have been incorrect, since the sync is off. But the content is what matters.

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