Breaking Balls: The absolute best of the worst in 2012
Jim Tracy knows best: Indefinitely means one year. (Getty Images) Last night, I had a really bad dream. I was working at a corporate office in the downtown area – those two aspects are pretty awful by themselves, but then it got worse. I was walking down the street and I ran into Edwin Jackson who was now working for the post office because More...
Breaking Ball’s playoff preview: Top chefs in the playoff kitchen
Will Chipper Jones end his career by cooking up a World Series title for the Atlanta Braves? (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Well, that sure was one heck of a playoff race, huh? Though nothing will top last More...
Premature adulation – the MVP and Cy Young Awards go to …
And the winner is … There are still a couple of weeks left to play in the season, and the wild card races are getting pretty intense as we watch each night to see which teams in the American League More...
Breaking Balls: Orioles shacking up with Lady Luck
Lady Luck is spending a lot of time with Adam Jones and the Baltimore Orioles. Will she stick around until the end of the season? Last year around this time, I had the brilliant idea to spice up the last More...
Breaking Balls: Stars must align for fantasy football superiority
Is this a baseball column? Yes, about fantasy football. (Go with it.) This time of year, though the baseball season is ramping up to its pennant races, the eyes of the sports world are turning to the National More...
Breaking Balls: What Boston-LA mega-trade means for each team
Adrian Gonzalez helped Red Sox fans forget all about him (not) by homering in his first at-bat with the Dodgers. (Stephen Dunn/Getty Images) Around this time of year, most of the sports world has its attention More...
Breaking Balls: Opening up about closers
Is it the ninth inning yet? (Jared Wickerham/Getty Images) This is the time of the season when it gets a little thin in terms of things to discuss because most teams are just banging out the season and More...
Breaking Balls: The Phillies’ bumpy slide from first to worst
Neither slathered on face paint nor rally caps can help rescue the Philadelphia Phillies’ from their rapid decline. With all the major cities in the U.S. and the world that I have visited, strangely, More...
MLB Trade Deadline: The Baldwin Scale 2 – Tokyo drift
The Baldwin Scale returns in 2012! (dailypicksandflicks.com) To most people, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, is just another day in the seemingly endless stream of days that flow through one’s life on the More...
Breaking Balls: 10 bold predictions for the second half
The only thing missing from Mike Trout is a moustache. (Gary A. Vasquez/US Presswire) Well, that was one heck of an All-Star Game we had, huh? Okay, it was pretty boring – almost comatose – and I really More...
