If you're a Yankee fan, do you expect to wake up every morning and hear Sonny and Cher singing "I Got You Babe?"  Do you expect a beautiful but  snippy woman to say "Let's do it without the sarcasm, Bill?" In short, have the last few weeks, culminating in last night's embarrassing 10-4 loss to the lowly Red ...

Since I was told about yesterday's dugout rumble between Jonathan Papelbon and Bryce Harper, I've been trying to find out which baseball scholar referred to baseball players as men of 25 with the maturity level of 15-year-olds. Spending more than a decade riding buses with them, eating and drinking with them, hearing them continually blame ...

While the Cardinals have the best record in baseball this season, the human toll they have paid for this season's success  has been higher than most teams have to pay in any year.  It began during the last World Series when outfielder Oscar Taveras was killed in a car crash in his native Dominican Republic. ...

The Chicago Cubs are the second team definitely in the playoffs. While they lost to the Pirates 3-2  at Wrigley Field, the Giants also lost 5-4 to Oakland,  cinching a spot in the playoffs for the North Siders for the first time since 2008. This is the third time the Giants have missed the playoffs ...

The team that has had the easiest road to a division championship claimed it last night on their home field. While the Kansas City Royals made the World Series a year ago, they did not win the division in doing so. They made the playoffs with an astonishing win, 9-8 in 12 innings over Oakland. ...

It's been a long time now since I used to wile away sleepless nights playing online poker. When I did, I knew 3 jacks wasn't a hand you could trust to win. But in baseball, 3 jacks in 3 cities brought joy to some and heartbreak to other baseball fans.  A jack is baseball player ...

You have to believe that when Yogi Berra's memorial service is said, it can't be your typical funeral surrounded by misery and gloom. There will be tears, but they will be tears of laughter at what Berra, who passed away at 90 last night said in his time. He was one of those guys like ...

It was announced Monday that Yadier Molina, star catcher of the St. Louis Cardinals had suffered another injury. It was a torn thumb ligament, similar to the one he suffered last year, and it will cause a major problem for the team with the best record in baseball. It brought to mind the fact that  other than ...

Nothing will make even the most mild mannered starting pitcher swear like a sailor any quicker than watching his evening's work demolished by a few unwise pitches. Though it happens more and more every year as starters work fewer innings and relievers become more overworked, it figures that starters still have a hard time getting ...