So David Wright’s path to the All-Star Game just opened up with Placido Polanco going on the disabled list. He won’t be eligible to come off until after the break. But that’s no reason to sit back and consider it…
David Wright warms up beneath himself In the past week, David Wright has closed the gap on Placido Polanco for the starting slot at third base by nearly 118,000 votes. 118,000 votes! In a week! That’s 16,857 votes per day….
Remember to Vote Wright! Click the button on the right –> The way I see it, there are three third basemen in the National League who deserve consideration to start the All-Star Game. Ryan Zimmerman is up there with solid…
David Wright, New York Mets farmhand With All-Star Game balloting ending Thursday night at 11:59 p.m. ET, one stroke before midnight, I’m going to do all I can this week to promote David Wright for third base. There are several…
Liberty at the Sports Museum Apparently, the Mickey Mouse Red Sox statue in L.A. was vandalized. I find this surprising, considering that in 2008, when MLB put Statues of Liberty around New York, the Red Sox one got away unscathed….
Pennants atop the scoreboard Two weeks ago, I drove down to Washington to meet up with two college friends and see the Nationals play the Reds. We’d speculated a couple of weeks before and bought tickets hoping it would be…
Night at Oriole Park I’m finally catching up after a whirlwind weekend. After working long into the morning on Thursday, I went to that afternoon’s Mets-Padres game before going back to work that night. And who would’ve thought that of…
When I began this blog several years ago as a means to continue to write about baseball after I left sportswriting, I had no plans to use it as a money-making venture. And I still don’t; I simply do it…
Ken Griffey Jr. may have been our generation’s Mickey Mantle, the player who was admired and beloved beyond his home stadium, the kid who managed to do things on a baseball field that few other players of his time could…