After over a week of play, I am so happy the game I love the most is back!  Here are just a few things that make the greatest game even better.
In no particular order …
1. Smooth double-plays … you have to love the way the ball is whipped around the diamond almost effortlessly.
2. Diving catches […]

Anyone happen to catch the Nationals-Braves game last night on TV?  A beautiful new ballpark for the team in DC … a great game … welcome back baseball.  The president threw out the first pitch in a ceremonial manner.  A tradtion that was started in 1910.  I smiled.
What disgusted me more than words can describe […]

Only ’cause Brett Hollander wouldn’t leave me alone …
American League –
EAST - Red Sox
CENTRAL - Indians
WEST - Mariners
WILD CARD - Yankees
National League –
EAST - Mets
CENTRAL - Cubs
WEST - Rockies
WILD CARD - Braves
WORLD SERIES CHAMPION - Cleveland Indians 
AL CY YOUNG - Chen-Ming Wang
NL CY YOUNG - Johan Santana
AL MVP - Alex Rodriguez
NL MVP - Matt Holliday

Here are my 2008 MLB predictions. Let’s see how good I am at prognosticating.
Before I do so,  just want to say that,  without a salary cap, baseball will never have teams going from last to first in successive seasons, in contrast to the NFL. But, the key word in sports these days is ”parity.” That seems to be the measure of  the […]

The Red Sox and A’s have just finished a two-game series in Japan.  This is the 3rd time that Major League Baseball has done this.  The two previous times was in 2000 with the Mets and the Cubs, then again in 2004 with the Yankees and the Rays.  Both of those series were splits, just […]

So reports out of Seattle are that Erik Bedard isn’t playing “nice-nice” with the media in the Pacific-northwest.  We in Baltimore know that is the case.  The often surly, short-lipped lefty wasn’t much for talking here either.  One report says that after a bad start this spring, Bedard told reporters that they could only ask […]

WOW!  Was anyone as big a loser as me and watched pretty much the first 2-plus hours of the congressional hearings??? Does anyone have a job that would allow them to?  Eh, call it a different version of rounds 1 and 2 of March Madness! … Anyway, today was interesting.  It was a showdown between […]

Happy new year… Yes, I said happy new year. It is a headline that I saw a few years ago on espn.com , which was used on the 1st day of Spring Training. Well, today it’s freezing in Baltimore–we just had a nasty ice storm–but the fact that they are playing ball somewhere means it […]

He likes to say he was the Orioles’ number 8 before Cal Ripken.  Like Cal, he wore the number with pride and served the Orioles’ organization well for many years.
But the news came out a little over a week ago.  The Orioles would not bring Andy Etchebarren back to manage in their minor leagues.  He […]

Some Monday ramblings.
*While I don’t have a big problem with Kevin Millar throwing out the first pitch at game seven of the ALCS in Boston, I do have a small problem with it.
The Orioles need more players like Millar with his fire and intensity and more who come thru in the clutch often like he does.  […]