ESPN’s Buster Olney shocked Major League Baseball fans yesterday with an anonymously-sourced article about the possibility of reducing games to 7-innings, rather than the standard 9-inning fare of the past 125 years. The well-known sportswriter delivered his mind-numbing scoop in a subscriber-only post by citing a “high-ranking MLB team representative” who believes games run too […] READ MORE
Author: Scott Gentry
testeeawardsThis Week’s Testee Award Winner: Mike Delio, High School Pitcher
Who the heck is Mike Delio (@Mike_Delio), and where the Devil is Carle Place High School? Prior to Tuesday, the answer to the first question might have been “nobody”, while the answer to the second could just as easily have been “nowhere”. But after throwing a “double perfecto” earlier in the week, at an ordinary, […] READ MORE
MLB Instant Replay: Bye, Bye Spontaneous Managerial Combustion
The “rhubarb”… Major League Baseball’s traditional manager-umpire, in your face, eye-bulging, vein-popping tirade, usually over a blown call at first base, or when fans reach over fences to steal homers from outstretched gloves…. is facing extinction. Sports fans who enjoy baseball (or not), will find a good old “rhubarb” at the ballpark a reason to […] READ MORE
The Difference Between the NCAA & Twinkies? (One can definitely survive in landfill)
There is a specter haunting college sports… The specter of union-ism! Hurry! Everyone reach for your frowny face and OMG! emoticons. Whether you’re a churn & burn free-marketeer consumer of college sports or a concierge of the collective, rumbles out of Chicago that the National Labor Relations Board granted the Northwestern University football team permission […] READ MORE
