As some of you know, the guys from 2K Sports have this contest where you can receive $1 million for throwing the first perfect game in the MLB 2K game. This year, T.J. Brida was in the 14th inning of a perfect game when he gave up the first hit of the game to Pirates’ Jose Tabata [...]
04/10/12
Left handed pitcher, Cole Hamels, is set to be a free agent at the end of the 2012 season. His agent, John Boggs, was in Florida this past week discussing a long term deal for his client with the Phillies, but will go back to California today empty handed, as no deal was reached.
Jayson Stark [...]
03/10/12
After completing the first two financial reports, I’ll be doing the rest of the reports according to their regular season record. In 2011, the Philadelphia Phillies had the best record in the Majors, but they failed to advance to the NLCS after losing to the Wild Card Team/World Series Champions, St. Louis Cardinals.
The apparently unbeatable [...]
12/14/11
Congratulations to Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw who won the 2011 NL CY Young in a landslide. Kershaw won the N.L. pitching triple crown in 2011, tying for the league lead in victories with 21, and leading it with 248 strikeouts and a 2.28 ERA. He also is the eighth Dodger to win the award, [...]
11/17/11
In recent years, pitchers have dominated the game and this season it’s no different. A lot of people might say it’s because of the end of the steroids era, but I’ve always thought that banning steroids is not the reason for pitching success.
Hitters were not the only ones using steroids during the steroids era, as pitchers [...]
08/05/11
According to Craig Calcaterra of MSNBC, Ron Washington and Bruce Bochy have announced their Starting Lineups. Starting Pitcher for the NL Is Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Starting Pitcher for the AL is Jered Weaver of the Los Angeles Angels. The starting lineups then go as follows:
American League
1. Curtis Granderson CF New [...]
07/11/11
Since video games were invented, we’ve heard a lot of people tell us that playing video games was a waste of time. I’m not gonna start a war here explaining why I think video games could be educative at some point, but I’m obligated to point out that for one guy, playing video games became [...]
05/27/11
The last two days, we predicted the division winners for the American League and the National League. Earlier today, we covered our award predictions for the American League. Without further ado, here are the National League award predictions.
Writer
National League MVP
Allan
Buster Posey
Ryan
Albert Pujols
Juan
Albert Pujols
Writer
National League Cy Young
Allan
Roy Halladay
Ryan
Cliff Lee
Juan
Tim Lincecum
Writer
National League ROY
Allan
Aroldis Chapman
Ryan
Brandon Belt
Juan
Brandon Belt
Writer
First NL [...]
03/30/11
Were you the cool kid on the block with an original jersey or did you follow the in-crowd? Here’s a list of the top-10 selling jerseys from 2010 according to Major League Baseball’s official jersey maker, Majestic (via Arren Rovell of CNBC).
10. Tim Lincecum – San Francisco Giants
9. Alex Rodriguez – New York [...]
03/23/11
According to a team source close to Bob Brookover of the Philadelphia Inquirer, GM Ruben Amaro Jr. and the Phillies have agreed to a contract extension. Jon Morosi of FOXSports confirms the deal is done and adds that the deal is for four-years.
Paul Hagen of the Philadelphia Equirer was the first to report that the [...]
03/12/11