Baseball is a beautiful game that shows us different things on different days. As fans we really never see the same thing happen twice over a period of two different games. Each day we see something new. And this can be said for a Minor League game that took place on Sunday June 28th, 2009 [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Nats Make a ‘Minor’ Move
The July 31st non-waiver trade deadline is right around the corner, just about one month away, and some teams have made minor moves to try to improve their club or their farm system. One such trade occurred on Monday between the Washington Nationals and the Seattle Mariners.
The Nationals sent outfielder Ryan Langerhans to the Mariners [...]
Brewers Minor Leaguer Suspended 100 Games
One of the top pitching prospects in the Milwaukee Brewers farm system has been suspended by Major League Baseball for a total of 100 games for testing positive for abuse of a drug. The prospect, Jeremy Jeffress, is one more positive test away from receiving a lifetime ban from the sport of baseball.
Jeffress was taken [...]
Redbirds Acquire DeRosa
The St. Louis Cardinals have acquired utility infielder Mark DeRosa from the Cleveland Indians for reliever Chris Perez and a player to be named later. DeRosa was traded by the Chicago Cubs to the Tribe during the offseason and the team never hit its stride. The Indians decided to move DeRosa now to obtain as [...]
JC Romero Involed in Altercation with Fan
Phillies reliever JC Romero was involved in an altercation with a Tampa Bay Rays fan following a game in Tampa earlier this week. Remainder of story coming…
Tigers Capture Sixth Baseball Title
The Tigers of LSU have captured their sixth title in team history, tying them with Texas for second all-time behind USC, which has 12. Arizona State has the third most titles with five. LSU absolutely destroyed Texas in game three of the final round by a score of 11-4. The game was tied in the [...]
Baseball Blowups 2
We posted an article earlier this week discussing baseball blowups between managers and players, players and umpires, and managers and umpires. In that article we hit a lot of blowups from the past handful of decades including Earl Weaver’s explitive laden rant with an umpire, George Brett’s tine par incident, and most recently Carlos Zambrano’s [...]
College World Series Ends Tonight
The College World Series will come to an exciting end tonight in Omaha, Nebraska at Rosenblatt Stadium. Rosenblatt Stadium is one of the most storied and revered baseball stadiums in the country and it has seen its fair share of excitement not only in 2009 but throughout the past 50 plus seasons.
Rosenblatt has been home [...]
Baseball Blowups
Baseball has been America’s past-time for quite some time now and it has provided fans all over the country with exciting moments from no-hitters to perfect games, from walk-off homeruns to record breaking homeruns, from underdog stories to surprising stories and many other exciting moments throughout the illustrious history of the sport. But, with every [...]
Fehr Heading into Retirement
Donald Fehr, the head of the MLB Player’s Association, has decided to call it a career. It was announced on Monday that Fehr, head of the player’s union since 1985, will leave his position by the time the month of March rolls around in 2010.
Fehr told the board that he will not leave his post [...]
