Mo’ Money; No Problems

Mariano Rivera notched his 500th save in the finale of the Subway Series last night, but that was not the highlight of his evening. After all, how could the highlight of the evening be something that he’s done 499 time before?

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Q&A with Cubs Catcher Geovany Soto

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27pitches was recently able to catch up with Cubs backstop Geovany Soto for a telephone interview…or so we thought. The answers to some of our simple questions made us wonder whether or not it was actually Geovany. But then we caught a headline on ESPN and things started to add up.

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And If the Queen Had Balls, She’d Be King

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A pet peeve of mine has reared its ugly head frequently over the past week or so, and it’s time I had my say about it.

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A New Type of Weiner Gets Ready for the MLB Grill

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In a day chock full of sporting news, it has been reported that MLBPA executive director Donald Fehr will step down from his position by March of next year. Taking his place will be Michael Weiner, number 3 in command in the MLBPA after Chief Operating Office Gene Orza.

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What does an MLB manager actually do?

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In this day and age there is one fair question that often goes unanswered. What does a Major League manager actually do? Are managers anything more than overpaid babysitters?

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Yankees Players on Suicide Watch

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In a stunning display of bizarro baseball, the sport’s worst team (possibly of all time) defeated the Bronx Bombers not once, but twice in their three game set. Here are some interesting tidbits from last night’s World Series preview.

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All-Star Blunders

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I watch the All-Star game, but I’m pretty sure I hate it, and here’s why.

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Is Steroid Speculation Fair? My Response to the Sports Idiot

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The Sports Idiot and I have been going back and forth the past week on the topic of steroid speculation in baseball. I say baseball because it only really seems to be a problem (so far as we know) in baseball and football, and in football it seems to be much more acceptable, but that’s another post in itself.

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Rivalry Week Stats and Tallies

Ok, following a week of fantastic New York-centric baseball, here are the tallies for those of you who took a shot at the poll last week.

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48 Hours of MLB: The Twilight Zone

If you haven’t been keeping up with the goings on in Major League Baseball in the last couple days, you’ve been missing out on some seriously weird and bonehead moves.

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