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Besides the Obvious, McGwire and Sosa Were Nothing Alike

Mar 31, 2017

Baseball History, Chicago Cubs, Features, St. Louis Cardinals

Disclaimer: This article is not timely. It is apropos of nothing. There is no logical reason for me to write it right now, except that I happened recently to listen to an old episode of a podcast where the host...

Steroids Saved Baseball; Let’s Bring Them Back

Evan Marinofsky

Jun 20, 2016

Features, Headlines, Opinions & Predictions

Thanks to the media that we have today, it’s almost comical how massive a topic can become. There is no statistic to measure the impact of the media -- at least not yet. We can only measure its impact through i...

Pitching is Ruining Baseball

Ryan Morris

Jun 17, 2016

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Opinions & Predictions

Baseball is boring, they say. Nothing ever happens. It's too slow. It's too long. It's too complicated. The players are fat. The Yankees aren't even good anymore. Increasingly, baseball is becoming a niche h...

McGwire And Trammell Disappear From The Hall Ballot

Gabriel Bogart

Jan 7, 2016

Features, Hall of Fame, Opinions & Predictions

They say, "Death and taxes are the only certainties in life," and today, Mark McGwire and Alan Trammell both experienced one of those inevitabilities, in a matter of speaking. In their final year of eligibility...

Should We Welcome PED Guys Back Into the Game?

Eric Kabakoff

Dec 1, 2015

Baseball History, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Miami Marlins

Barry Bonds might soon re-emerge in Major League Baseball as a hitting coach after an eight-year hiatus from the game, igniting the usual social media torrent of snark, jokes, and hand-wringing. We have yet to ...

Reinstatement Time for Pete Rose?

Evan Marinofsky

Jun 23, 2015

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, National League, Opinions & Predictions

Today is June 23, exactly three weeks away from the All Star Game. The All Star Game marks the halfway point of the season. Up to this point, the hottest topic in the game has nothing to do with the players cur...

Revisiting Replacement Players

Gershon Rabinowitz

Mar 24, 2015

Baseball History, Features, Major League Baseball

Numbers are constant. Their values held to the highest regard with no change in property. Results are black and white, absent of ambiguity. The figures serve as the gospel of human existence. From finances to c...

Scenes from Dodgers Camp: Joc Pederson

Jeff J. Snider

Mar 11, 2015

Features, Los Angeles Dodgers, Opinions & Predictions

I spent some time again this morning at the Dodgers' workouts on the back fields of their Spring Training complex at Camelback Ranch in Glendale. Two of the more amusing moments for me both involved Dodger rook...

A Look into MLB’s Hormonal History

Bryan Smith

Jan 21, 2015

Baseball History, Opinions & Predictions

Whether it is a group of boys scattered along a suburban street with only a rock and a fallen tree branch, or an organized team of grown men stationed upon a meticulously groomed playing field , baseball has, f...

Predicting which Active Players will Make the Hall of Fame

Baseball Essential

Jul 29, 2014

Hall of Fame, Milestone, Opinions & Predictions

No, I promise I won't use this as a forum to talk about Barry Bonds and why the SECOND BEST PLAYER EVER SHOULD BE IN THE HALL OF FAME (!!!), but rather to focus on the past weekend that was, and use it to stir ...

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