It’s City vs. City, Low Payroll Against Low Payroll

By Sean Connolly
So we’ve hit the mid-season point and a lot has changed since the beginning, but the question is will this be how it ends. Both Chicago teams, Cubs and White Sox, stand alone in first place in their respective divisions. The Mets’ season has started just as disastrous as it ended last year [...]

ROUND ONE: THE SOX

It’s begun. Baseball’s greatest rivalry. First came the buried jersey. One construction worker/fan’s attempt to reverse the Babe’s curse by burying a David Ortiz jersey beneath the new Yankee Stadium.

The excavated David Ortiz jersey

Then came the ballgames.

And if you watched the series between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox at [...]

MAKE BASEBALL, NOT WAR

It’s still Spring but the bad blood is flowing in the land of Major League Baseball. We all know about how Tampa Bay’s second baseman Elliot Johnson ran over New York Yankee Double A minor league catcher Francisco Cervelli last week fracturing his wrist – and the continuing complaints by new Yankee [...]