Our Canuck seems pretty down that Canada has been eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. It's the biggest surprise of the tournament thus far. Right now Italia is playing Venezuela and I'm rooting hard for the Euros to beat Team Chavez. It would be nice for a European team to get some recogniti...

What an awesome day for baseball. A man who played a game for a living sat in a dugout with his fingers to his neck. Forty-two thousand people, feet planted firmly in a standing position, roared thunder into a great white dome as the greatest Canadian player in the history of the game dug into the b...

It’s the first day of the year that is warm enough to wear a t-shirt outside, a Saturday at 1:30pm. I’m sitting outside in a suburban housing development where people buy houses to raise families and no single person would dare to dwell. To my left, I can see twenty houses from the back patio, f...

It's a bummer that more games aren't on the radio, television, or internet. You would think in this day and age of media orgies that it would be possible to televise every game, even if it just meant sticking a camera behind homeplate and letting it run with only the sounds of the game for audio. Ju...

I thought I’d take the time to reflect upon my favorite baseball players. The only rule I’m using is that I had to watch him play and remember him, so any Big Red Machine players are out. I’m sure I saw Johnny Bench play as a child, but I just don’t remember. 10. Paul O’Neill. I never real...

Leatherpants is under federal investigation. Hey, Jimbo, Better get yourself together darling. Join the human race. Who the hell do you think you are? A super star? Well, right you are. A star shining bright for the FBI. Seems like Bowden might have been skimming signing bonuses for Latin American p...

The lineups REDSThomas Howard LFJacob Brumfield CFHal Morris 1BChris Sabo 3BTim Costo RFJuan Samuel 2BDan Wilson CJeff Branson SSLarry Luebbers P DEADBIRDSGeronimo Pena 2BLonnie Maclin LFBernard Gilkey RFTodd Zeile 3BGerald Perry 1BMark Whiten CFTom Pagnozzi CCromer SSBob Tewksbury P It was the seco...

"I want to try to stay more to the middle. Last year, I tried to pull too many balls and hit more homers," Encarnacion said Wednesday after reporting to camp. "That's why my average went down. I will be more consistent as a hitter. I know I can do it. I've done it before. I know I can hit better tha...

Willy Taveras was born in Tanares, Republica Dominicana on Christmas Day in 1981. The town of a little over 7000 was actually named for his family, but the doctors at the hospital misread his father's writing and put Taveras on the birth certificate. This was the result of his father writing his new...

Watching MLB Network all the time has got me thinking about how great it would be if we could go back and watch some of the legends of the game play in real life. This was a difficult list to compile. Just think of the immortals who grace baseball’s history books, guys like Lou Gehrig and Ted Will...