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AL EAST Boston Red Sox (88-74) Toronto Blue Jays* (83-79) Baltimore Orioles (80-82) New York Yankees (78-84) Tampa Bay Rays (76-86) ...

A L EAST (my prediction): Toronto Blue Jays (90-72) Tampa Bay Rays*  (87-75) New York Yankees (83-79) Boston Red Sox (80-82) Baltimore...

AL EAST Toronto Blue Jays (90-72) Tampa Bay Rays* (87-75) New York Yankees (83-79) Boston Red Sox (80-82) Baltimore Orioles (77-85) ...

While watching the World Baseball Classic, I couldn’t help but consider what this would have looked like in the past. Two hours later, I had...

After no one was elected to the Hall of Fame today, baseball reporter Ken Rosenthal said, on the MLB Network, that the sabermetric community...

ATLANTA BRAVES 2012 W-L: 94-68 2012 Runs Per Game: 4.32 (7th in NL) 2012 Runs Allowed Per Game: 3.70 (4th in NL) Key Losses:  Chippe...

Every once in a while, an opportunity comes up to write for another website. I’ll prepare an email introduction about myself, which I hope w...

In which I revisit my preseason picks and marvel at the credibility one man can sacrifice in a year. NATIONAL LEAGUE My NL East Predicti...

CLASH of the CHAMPIONS XXVII: June 23, 1994 Championship Unification Match Sting (NWA International Champion) .vs. Ric Flair (WCW Hea...

CLASH of the CHAMPIONS XII: September 5, 1990 NWA U.S. Heavyweight Title Lex Luger (Champion) .vs. Ric Flair

My response to Chapter 12 of Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream by Lerone Bennett, Jr. Excerpted from a message board discuss...

Collected thoughts while watching the new WWE DVD Set The Best of Clash of the Champions. It’s so great to see Dusty Rhodes in promo mode....

I've just started graduate work at Western Kentucky University, working toward an MA in History degree. One of my first classes is entit...

The decision to invade Russia was stupid only in retrospect. They weren’t emotionless drones. They weren’t a...

Once again, an asterisk indicates that the actor was nominated for, but did not win, an Oscar. Peter O’Toole, My Favorite Year* ...

AL EAST New York Yankees (93-69) Boston Red Sox* (89-73) Tampa Bay Rays (86-76) Toronto Blue Jays (82-80) Baltimore Ori...

I present:  Actors who deserved to win an Oscar but did not. An incomplete list: * – An asterisk indicates that the actor was at least nom...

So I wanted to take a quick at World Champion teams that lost their best player in the same off-season.  Seeing Albert Pujols go the Angels ...

In which I look back at my pre-season predictions with wonder and/or shame: My NL East predictions: Philadelphia Phillies (95-67) At...