by Matthew Kory | Mar 16, 2022 | Major League Baseball
This was predictable, so if you didn’t buy a helmet and some goggles that’s on you. With the ratification of the CBA, the off-season has restarted in earnest. It’s been pretty packed too. There have been just about every kind of transaction, or as Jerry Dipoto calls...
by Rose Katz | Jan 27, 2022 | Major League Baseball
On Tuesday, the baseball world learned something that everyone probably expected: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were not voted into the Hall of Fame in their tenth year on the ballot. Bonds received 66 percent of the vote, while Clemens earned 65.2 percent of the...
by Matthew Kory | Jan 5, 2022 | Major League Baseball
The baseball Hall of Fame is a conundrum in a way that no other sport’s hall of fame has ever been. The reason is because Hall voters are forced to play not just gate keepers to the Hall, but morality police as well. The culprit is both the character clause and the...
by Matthew Kory | Dec 16, 2021 | Major League Baseball
The weirdest part of this off-season isn’t the lockout. That’s certainly abnormal, but it’s not outright strange. In fact, I think we all saw it coming years ago. No, the weirdest thing is how almost all of the big signings have come from bad teams. It’s almost...
by Matthew Kory | Dec 7, 2021 | Major League Baseball
Baseball is my favorite topic of conversation. I can bring almost any topic back to baseball. Economics? Baseball! Perseverance? Baseball! Job security? Unions? Race? Baseball! Baseball! Baseball! Unfortunately, baseball isn’t a particularly fun topic to come back to...
by Matthew Kory | Nov 30, 2021 | Major League Baseball
There’s an old Onion article with a headline that I will clean up slightly which says, “Holy [swear word] Man Walks On [swear word] Moon!” That pretty much sums up the last few days of the baseball off-season. Most sports have off-seasons that are like pouring hot...
