Baseball is sport, and it’s entertainment.  Baseball may be sacred on a personal level, it certainly brings me back to my childhood.  But in and of itself, it is not.  That’s where the problem starts.  When we start consecrating entertainment, we’ve lost touch with reality.  The media in general pushes the idea on us that performance enhancing drug use and [...]

It’s the middle of July, so it’s nearing the MLB Trade Deadline and the time for teams to decide if they’re buyers or sellers.  This is baseball’s equivalent to Black Friday.  Sorry folks, no Boston/Philly World Series this year, either.  In lieu of the usual cliches, the words of that magnificent douche Kevin Millar sum it up best, “It’s time [...]

Through the first two months of the season, the Chicago White Sox were receiving epically-bad production from the third base position. We’re talking sub-.550 OPS, Orlando Hudson is getting meaningful at-bats at a position he’s never played in the Major Leagues before… Meanwhile, the Sox of a different color had a whole other situation on their hands. Their long-time hero [...]