Category: MLB (Page 394 of 448)

When the Baltimore Orioles announced they would bring back Dave Trembley for the 2008 season, it must have been a tremendous moment for the interim manager. A tremendous moment, that is, for about seven hours.

Trembley’s bunch got absolutely hammered by the Texas Rangers Wednesday night, surrendering 29 hits in a 30-3 rout. It was the most runs scored by an MLB team since the Chicago Colts scored 36 in 1897. Talk about an utter embarrassment for Trembley, who must have thought to himself, “What the hell did I ever do to you baseball gods!”

So, uh, yeah…congratulations on the promotion Dave…

MLB Commissioner and total nimrod Bud Selig announced he wouldn’t hand out any punishment to Jason Giambi since the Yankee fully cooperated with Senator George Mitchell’s investigation of steroids in baseball.

So apparently as long as you admit to doing something wrong, you won’t face punishment. Wish that method worked for me back in middle school when I used to change my grades on my report card (sorry again mom).

It’s nice to award a guy for coming clean, but that doesn’t mean he gets a free pass. Maybe this is why the game of baseball continues to be in complete shambles. Seriously Selig, you’ve known there’s been a problem in your league for years, yet continue to do nothing to clean up the situation, including punish a guy for actually admitting he cheated. Hey, I guess if there’s money to be made off guys cheating and hitting long home runs, it’s okay if players juice, right?

Bud the Slug couldn’t run a cub scouts group, nevertheless Major League Baseball.

Leave it to our friends at Super Deluxe to spin the Barry Bonds “moral quagmire” in a way that no one has considered yet. And the sad part is that it does not seem at all beyond the realm of possibility that this is how Bonds would react, if given the choice in real life that he’s given here. Ladies and Gentlemen, “It’s a Wonderful Game.”

Okay, so I was pretty high on the Eric Gagne to Red Sox trade a week ago, but I’m reporting back to eat a little crow.

In five appearances for Boston, GagMe has allowed seven earned runs for a super sized 15.75 ERA. Out of the 24 batters he’s faced, he’s allowed half of them to reach base, has cost the Red Sox two wins and could have cost them two more.

In hindsight, giving up three prospects for a once dominant closer just trying to survive on whatever skill he had left was a bad idea. Also in hindsight, I’m an idiot for thinking this was a good move, but maybe he’ll turn things around. Then again, Boston could have acquired Dennis Eckersley in his prime and it still might not have mattered. We’ve seen this too many times – the BoSox shrivel up like one of the Golden Girls, while the Yankees stay as hot as Jennifer Love Hewitt in Heartbreakers.