I agree 100%. There is very little "sporting" about a system that stacks the deck every season in favor of certain teams. It will eventually be the downfall of the game if half or more of the teams are waiting to possibly catch lightning in a bottle to win one championship in a generation ...
The Washington Post With deep pockets, grand ambition, new Mets owner swings blockbuster deal for Francisco Lindor By Dave Sheinin Jan. 7, 2021 at 4:54 p.m. EST On a day when arguably the best shortstop in baseball went from one of the sport’s smallest markets to its largest — in a blockbuster, six-...
Joe Walsh: Challenging Trump for the GOP nomination taught me my party is a cult Real conservatives think for themselves. Trump Republicans have been brainwashed. Feb. 6, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. EST When I announced my primary challenge to President Trump last year, I knew running against him for the GOP ...
3. Mike Fiers was the whistleblower In a bombshell report published by The Athletic in November, right-hander Mike Fiers, who pitched for the Astros from 2015-17, gave an on-the-record account of how the Astros crossed the line. "That's not playing the game the right way," he said at the ...
You know, if somebody comes here and posts something with a point of view that might be slanted, somebody else should be able to come here and post the countering point of view. No problem. And yet you blow a gasket whenever anyone responds to your propaganda. I get it. The host of ugly truths abou...
Nothing to do with whether folks are liberals. It is what the increasing indisputable evidence shows to be the facts, while partisan Republicans continue to support Trump's non-stop and ever-shifting lies. Your "conservative" gang has shown that they have zero credibility on issues of poli...
Holding Ukraine hostage: How the president and his allies, chasing 2020 ammunition, fanned a political storm By Greg Miller , Paul Sonne , Greg Jaffe and Michael Birnbaum October 4 at 10:14 PM By mid-May, the U.S. relationship with Ukraine was unraveling: The U.S. ambassador had been recalled home f...
Hand is single-handedly blowing the Tribe's chances to win the division and maybe make the playoffs altogether. I knew in my gut that Santana was going to hit that homer. But as soon as Hand took the mound I knew in my gut that he was going to find a way to lose the game. He is currently playing awf...
Baseball is the only major sport that does not do anything very substantial to ensure that smaller market teams are not severely disadvantaged financially in their ability to pay top talent to come to (or even stay with) those teams. Yeah, they can make the playoffs if they are extremely well manage...