Over the weekend, I read some news that really made me wonder what kind of a world we live in. I am speaking, of course, of Pierce Marshall announcing he will appeal the $450 million dollar decision in the Anna Nicole Smith inheritance case last week. Scratch that. I am speaking, of course, of the…
My initial predisposition is to pick the Mariners. They’ve got baseball’s best player and Edgar Martinez, and both of them outhit Frank Thomas to the point that the Big Hurt’s MVP campaign should be DOA. On top of the two great ones, the Mariners have got a starting rotation that is, if nothing else, physically…
The Yankees spent the last three weeks of the regular season trying to give the AL East to anyone who would take it from them. Fortunately for them, they were not being pursued by the A’s or Indians, but by a pair of teams who were just as generous, the Red Sox and Blue Jays….
This series shapes up as an interesting experiment. How important is positive momentum going into October? The Yankees set a new standard for backing into a division title, losing their last seven games and 13 of their last 15. The A’s, however, drove from out of a playoff spot to a division title in the…