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Jays Acquire Three Pitchers from Astros in Happ-less Attempt to Save Season

In what can only be called the most underwhelming trade of the baseball season, the Toronto Blue Jays today acquired the services of three pitchers from the Houston Astros in exchange...
Battered and Broken Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays came into this season with high expectations. Buzz surrounding the team extended well beyond the Toronto media; many baseball purveyors thought that the Blue Jays brass had...
What Encarnacion Means to the Jays

Consistency has finally paid off for Edwin Encarnacion. The first baseman/designated hitter was locked down for the next three years today by the Toronto Blue Jays for $27 million with a...
MLB Mid-Season Report: Players

Last week we took a look at the status of some of the teams to watch-out for in major league baseball mid-way through the season, and now we want to take...
Athletes Going Broke and Going to Jail

Today I stumbled across the headline, “Ex Raider Facing Multiple Murder Charges”. Headlines like these involving former athletes have become so commonplace that I barely noticed, which for me is sad....
MLB Mid-Season Report: Teams

With the impending All-Star break, next weekend will mark the half way point in the MLB season. While a distinct pack of great teams and horrible teams has started to take...
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Hill Becomes First Player in 81 Years to Hit Two Cycles in Same Season

Aaron Hill joined some very rare company when he hit for his second cycle of the 2012 season last night against the Milwaukee Brewers. In fact, it was the second cycle...
How Changes to Interleague Play have Reopened the Designated Hitter Debate

June 24th marked the end of interleague play for the 2012 season and will mark the last year that interleague play will occur in its traditional format during the season. The...
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Why the Blue Jays Won’t Make the Playoffs in 2012

Last month, I wrote an article about the “crisis” in Boston as the high-priced Red Sox struggled to gain traction in the AL East. I’m sure that many of you thoroughly...
Talk of the Town: Baseball’s “Cinderella” Man

He’s been the surprise of the baseball season so far, and a pleasant one for the New York Mets. Before this year, only hardcore baseball followers had really heard of the...
The Rocket’s Red Letter Day: Why Clemens’ Reputation Should be Restored

*Editor’s note, yesterday Mark Modeski wrote that the Roger Clemens trial was a sham and that his reputation and legacy will never be resrored. Today Max Warner takes the opposing view.*...
Roger Clemens: Not Guilty!

What started out as the centre piece of the steroid story in baseball has finally come to a close… sort of. Roger Clemens was acquitted today of all charges against him...
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The Rise of Brandon Morrow

In case you haven’t noticed, Ricky Romero is no longer the ace of the Toronto Blue Jays. With his dominant start to 2012, Brandon Morrow is now clearly the best pitcher...
Identity Fraud Suspension: Why MLB Got it Wrong

The eight-week suspension handed down by Major League Baseball to Marlins’ pitcher Juan Oviedo last week shows just how out of touch MLB suspension policies are with reality. Oviedo will miss...
Parity: Why it is every Sportsfan’s Dream

*EDITOR’S NOTE* This article is the third, in a three part series. Our first article, “Death of Dominance and the Rise of Parity in Professional Sports” was published Saturday. In that...
Why Dynasties are Important in Sports

*EDITOR’S NOTE* This is in response to our first article, “Death of Dominance and the Rise of Parity in Professional Sports“. In that article, we compared the seeding of championship winners...
Death of Dominance, and the Rise of Parity in Professional Sports

In football, seldom has the best team in the regular season hoisted the Vince Lombardi trophy at the end of the year. Through just a little research, I found that this...
Please, Don’t Suck the Life from Baseball!

A recent announcement has slowly been trickling through baseball circles that the league is set to follow suit with the rest of the major professional sports in North America and implement...
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Crisis in Boston: Will Red Sox be in the Hunt in October?

Despite hovering around the .500 mark for most of the 2012 season, the Boston Red Sox are a team in crisis. The club is currently dead last in the American League...
Adam Lind’s Career at a Crossroad

The only thing that was surprising about Adam Lind’s demotion to Triple-A on May 17, 2012 by the Blue Jays was that it took Toronto until May 17 to demote him. ...