playoffs Stories - Bleed Cubbie Blue
Gambling for October: How Expanding the Playoffs Could Aid Parity
Since Commissioner Selig suggested the possibility of expanding the playoffs to ten teams, the reaction from serious baseball bloggers and journalists has been swift and decidedly negative. This is unsurprising, considering the Commissioner's inane justification that ten teams is "more fair than...
We're Finally Here, And Sh!t Yeah It's Cool! Reds win NL Central, 88-69.
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET -->Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game Jay Bruce. The man who delivered us our first division title in 15 years. Honorable mentions go to Ramon Hernandez, Joey Votto, Brandon Phillips, Orlando Cabrera, Scott Rolen, Jonny Gomes, Drew Stubbs, Ryan Hanigan, Chris...
Pebble Report - Weekend Recap: Modesto heads home down 0-2
Saturday 9/11 - San Jose 7, Modesto 3 Josh Sullivan put his team in a five-run hole after 4.1 innings, as he allowed six hits and four walks. Mike Zuanich hit a solo home run in the top of the seventh inning to get the Nuts on the board, and Tim Wheeler followed with a two-run shot in the eighth...
The Revealing Nature of Boston's Remaining Schedule
With a record of 65-49, the Boston Red Sox rank third in the entire American League in terms of wins. The problem being, that same total remains good enough for just the third-highest in their own division -- Major League Baseball’s toughest -- the East. As of Wednesday morning, Boston...
New Players Union Chief: Players Want 7-Game Division Series
Michael Weiner, just installed as the head of the MLBPA, held his first news conference in his new role and among the things mentioned was expanding the division series: Players would like to see the first round of playoffs expand to best-of-seven when their next labor contract starts in 2012,...
Saturday Pebble Report: Modesto clinches spot in Cal League playoffs
Colorado Springs, L 1-5Russ Ortiz: 6 IP, 8 H, 5 R/ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HR. On the bright side, uh, Jason Giambi had two hits. Tulsa, L 1-4Samuel Deduno had a fight with the strike zone last night. Of his 105 pitches, 56 went for strikes. He wound up walking six batters and striking out seven. In the...
Testing Conventional Wisdom: Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez in the Playoffs
Derek Jeter - the Captain, the True YankeeTM He took his first 12 teams in New York to the playoffs, winning the world series 4 times. A .309 playoff batting average and a .302 World Series average among other memorable playoff exploits earned him the name Mr. November. On the other hand, we...
Red Reposter - 5/13/09
Hall o' Famer Hal is happy to have a job. I think we all know the days of the beat writer for the local paper are numbered. Newspapers are just a plain old bad business model these days, but ironically enough the sports beat is probably one of the least expendable positions there. Sports are...
On Garza and the Taco King
I know they weren't exactly huge factors in the game last night, but the continuing narrative that the Matt Garza/Jason Bartlett acquisition was a driving force behind the Rays post-season drive--a narrative we can't refute, by the way--got me thinking, what was our reaction to the Twins-Rays swap?...
White Sox Season Ends (for reals this time) in ALDS
The White Sox seemed to play their best baseball of the year with their proverbial backs to the wall. They had won 4-in-row (against 4 different teams) in elimination games, when a single loss meant the end of their long season. But winning their 5th elimination game in a row was too much to...
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