The Toronto Blue Jays disappointed in 2012, there is no doubt about it. Few teams, however, were able to disappoint quite like the Miami Marlins. New stadium, new city, new uniforms, and new players, many had expectations set unreasonably high for the Marlins. Less than a year ago today, the Marlins were adding players such [...]
Mannywood Part II? No, not quite. But at about 2:30 A.M. east coast time, this tweet came across my radar: Apparentlly Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports did not feel that “Randy” was deserving of his allocation of 140 characters, but that is the other player (Randy Choate) heading to Los Angeles. But Hanley Ramirez was the prize here. [...]
Last night I brazenly tweeted, “Albert Pujols going to the Angels is about as likely as Mo Vaughn going to play 1st for the Angels #powderblues.” …Yeah, I’ll have my crow with a side of ketchup please. Bone-in if at all possible. Thanks. $260 million for perhaps the greatest first baseman of all time. 10-year contract for [...]
Typical MLB winter meetings. Big market teams spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Stealing superstar players from the small market teams who developed them but can no longer pay. The Yankees and the Red Sox really need to be asha- What? Who’s Miami? Yes, the Miami Marlins. The new bully on the block. The Heath [...]
