Headlines for July, 2005

Cubs Need to Deal, White Sox Should

The Major League Baseball trading deadline is this Sunday, and as usual, we should see a flurry of activity between the contenders and non-contenders. Here in Chicago, both the Cubs and White Sox have postseason aspirations, but their situations are quite different about 100 games into the season. Once again, injuries and an unreliable offense have contributed heavily to the underachieving [read more...]

Blips, Blurbs & Blasts

Linebacker extraordinaire Tedy Bruschi has decided to sit out the 2005 NFL season after suffering a freak stroke this past February, shortly after helping his team win Super Bowl XXXIX. I know the Patriots have had the Midas touch the last few years when it comes to filling the holes on their roster, but finding someone to take Bruschi's place [read more...]

It Takes a Lot To Reach the Hall

A curious thing happened in sports last week. We had two competitors achieve significant, some would say legendary, athletic milestones. And yet only one was held in the reverence befitting an athletic immortal. Why? Let's dig a bit. Over in Scotland, Tiger Woods birdied like it was 2002 and stormed his way to a tenth major title in winning the British [read more...]

Move Over Bud, I’m Taking Over

There's just no subtle way for me to put this. I need to be named the next Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and Bud Selig needs to have his hands detached from the wheel and smeared with pine tar. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that Selig gathers his henchman at the beginning of every season and looks [read more...]

A Sabermetric Push for the Hall

Yes, I'm crazy. But not because I think Reuschel deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. What makes me crazy is that I was doing a lot ridiculously time-consuming analysis that opened my eyes. As of now, I don't know how he has done in the voting or if he is still eligible for induction based on the writer's [read more...]

Olympic Baseball Issue Is All Swing and No Hit

With last night's revamped Home Run Derby turned into a celebration of baseball's ever growing diversity, the idea of the major leagues reaching an international stage took another step forward. MLB has long been trying to find an avenue to stretch its appeal beyond the U.S., from staging exhibition games in Mexico and Puerto Rico, to playing actual in-season games [read more...]

Biggio Got His Record the Hard Way

One of the more curious records in Major League Baseball history was broken on Wednesday when Craig Biggio was hit on the elbow by a pitch from Byung-Hyun Kim. It was the 268th time in his career that Biggio had been plunked, moving him past Don Baylor on the all-time list. Of all the ways to get yourself noticed by the [read more...]

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