Fireworks.
Cookouts.
Red.
White.
Blue.
Baseball’s halfway point.
Oh, and my Two Cent midseason analysis.
All tremendous traditions for summer.
My focus is the tragedy that is the Pittsburgh Pirates, so I will do my midseason review and analysis…
Every professional sports league has increased the number of playoff spots in recent years.
I would argue that is not a good thing.
The NHL Stanley Cup playoffs often find a David sitting in the seventh or eighth seed. Admittedly, early round upsets…
Throughout the years many great players have come up empty come playoff time.
The word choke comes to mind when thinking about this lot of players.
James Harden and Joel Embiid have been two of the best NBA players in the past decade. Come playoff time…
Living in Central Pennsylvania allows me to see a fairly even split of Phillies and Pirates paraphernalia. Phillies fans are gloating right now, while Pirates fans are worried it is more of the same in Pittsburgh.
I noticed a great debate raging on…
Even when baseball tries to do the right thing, they do the wrong thing.
Last week baseball announced that its statistical archives would now include Negro League players.
On the surface that is great news. Certainly, it is great news for the fantastic…