Baseball Headlines in 2008
Dogging Orlando
November 26, 2008 by Travis MacKenzie
With baseball's silly season officially underway, we're getting very close to the point of players putting their pens to outrageous contracts. It will undoubtedly be interesting to see where this year's big-name free agents end up, specifically CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and Francisco Rodriguez. Even the trade market heats...
Read the full story...What Major League Baseball needs to change
November 5, 2008 by Travis MacKenzie
With another World Series in the books, baseball has a new set of controversies. Though the situation could have been handled in a better way, all in all, the right thing was done in making sure that the Series' fifth and ultimately final game was played out in its entirety...
Read the full story...Phillies feel the brotherly love
October 30, 2008 by Chris Pope
With the Philadelphia Phanatic waving the banner on the mound at Citizens Park, it all became clear. The Philadelphia Phillies are the 2008 World Series Champions. All year long, to many people, this Phillies team has always been talked about to make the playoffs but was never considered to come...
Read the full story...How to build the 2008 World Series Champion
October 22, 2008 by Travis MacKenzie
It's likely impossible to locate a person who predicted a Tampa Bay-Philadelphia World Series matchup. Coming into the year, Tampa Bay was an improving club with some intriguing potential, but anybody who tells you that they were an actual threat is undoubtedly joking. As for Philadelphia, they were known to...
Read the full story...The mystery that is Rocco Baldelli
October 16, 2008 by Chris Pope
In life there are some problems that can't be fixed, some questions that can't be answered and some puzzles that can't be solved. To find all of these, just look at the Tampa Bay Rays' biggest question mark, Rocco Baldelli. The Rays drafted Baldelli out of high school with the...
Read the full story...You couldn't script a better year
September 28, 2008 by Chris Pope
The month of October gets its meaning from the Greek word "octo" meaning eight. In Major League Baseball, October has a whole different meaning, playoff baseball. This year had more storylines than I can remember any season having before and definitely solidified the fact that, even on the brink of...
Read the full story...Finally, Yankee Stadium has met its match
September 2, 2008 by Austin Kent
With all the panic and general hullabaloo surrounding Yankee Stadium's impending destruction, it's hard to detach one's self from the emotional draw of the world famous venue - but then, eventually, you see it for yourself. For years The Big Ballpark in the Bronx has set the table from which...
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