It’s funny how quickly the swagger disappears when you get humiliated 8-0 in front of your home crowd. Shut out. Shut down. Shut up. The Padres have turned into the villain. With cocky gestures and silly “look at me” antics every single time they hit a home run or make […]
Savor today. It will be the last four-game day of baseball this year. The playoffs have featured a lot of fun baseball. There have already been more blown saves than all of last year’s postseason. Since managers are reluctant to let starters go longer than four innings, maybe five, nearly […]
This is what fans with teams who are no longer in the playoffs (which applied to the Rangers in June) want. All four playoff series are tied at 1-1. Going up 2-0 in a best-of-five series pretty much ends the series for all intents and purposes. But Kansas City and […]
Watching the Mets is fun. Even better is not being a Mets fan so, if they lose, you don’t care. Mets-Phillies Game 2 was an instant classic. Thirteen runs, twenty-one hits, lead changes, game-tying home runs, oh, and a winning pitcher with an 81.00 ERA. Announcer and former Rangers catcher […]
Remember the whining about how unfair this new playoff system is to the highest-seeded teams because they have to sit out a week waiting for the Wildcard round to complete? Yesterday, three of the four bye recipients won. And, in a best-of-five Division series, the winner of the first game […]
Round 2 starts today. And if was anything like Round 1, or the preliminary double header on Monday, it’s going to be a great day of baseball watching. They call it the Divisional Series, and this time that’s almost correct. In the National League, New York plays divisional rival Philadelphia, […]
It looks like the Mets have that “thing” going on. Call it mojo or magic or whatever, but they are making baseball fun. Monday, in the crucial hurricane-forced doubleheader in which they absolutely had to win a game, they scored six runs in the eighth to erase a 3-0 deficit. […]
Poor Baltimore Orioles. For the second year in a row they watched their excellent regular season go up in smoke by being swept in the wild card series. Last year, of course, by Texas, this year by Kansas City. They amassed 192 victories over two years in the regular season, […]
The Astros are now one loss away from being eliminated in the playoffs. They have been to the Championship Series seven years in a row. A loss today or tomorrow would end that streak. A betting man would be unwise to wager against the Astros at this point based on […]
What a game. This is what makes baseball so much fun. It’s the impossible and the improbable. The first game of yesterday’s season-ending doubleheader was one of the most fun baseball games you’ll ever watch. Mainly because, if you’re a Rangers fan, you didn’t have to suffer through the agony of […]
