After every World Championship team is crowned, it’s easy to look at the makeup of that team and say, “Oh, that’s how you build a winner.” But it’s never that easy. And it’s never the same from year to year. In 2014, The Giants won with just one starter, Madison Bumgarner. […]
The long dark off-season is officially underway. Already, the Rangers are in the thick of it. Rangers assistant general manager Thad Levine was named the new general manager of the Minnesota Twins. \ Five Texas Rangers have become free agents: Carlos Beltran, Ian Desmond, Carlos Gomez, Colby Lewis, and Mitch Moreland. The […]
If baseball is a religion to people, then Theo Epstein is the closest they are going to get to a savior. The fans of Boston waited 86 years for a championship. They came close some seasons. They fell a million miles short in other seasons. There was the trading Babe […]
There are 1,025,109 words in the English language. Honestly, I cannot string any of them together to do justice to what we saw last night in Game 7 of the World Series. I have been writing advertising for thirty-three years and I could not possibly create a better ad […]
Somebody’s heart breaks tonight. Somebody’s just-once-before-I-die prayer gets answered tonight. Chicago and Cleveland are tied at three games apiece in the 2016 World Series after two straight wins by the Cubs. Game 6 was over almost before it started, when the Cleveland outfield decided to play a game of Little League […]
The Red Sox were supposedly victims of the Curse of the Bambino for all those years. It’s why they went 87 years without winning a World Series. It stemmed, of course, from their trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees and seeing the fortunes of both franchises instantly changed directions. […]
In what was more religious experience than baseball game, a lot of demons were vanquished last night at Wrigley Field. This incredibly loyal and frustrated fan base waited 71 years to get a World Series game at Wrigley Field, and three nights to win one. By the time the […]
If nothing else, there is history in Wrigley Field. There certainly aren’t home victories. Before Jason Kipnis hit a three-run home run to blow open Game 4 of the 2016 World Series, the last visiting player to do that in a World Series at Wrigley was Babe Ruth. Nice company […]
After unloading on Cleveland pitching in Game 2, the Cubs bats went silent in Game 3, losing to Josh Tomlin and a dominating Cleveland bullpen 1-0. ***** TODAY’S GAME: Corey Kluber (18-9, 3.14) vs. John Lackey (11-8, 3.35) Game time: 7:08, FOX How the Indians hit against Lackey. How the […]
A couple of years ago, a commercial from PlayStation won most of the top awards in the ad industry. Since this is the first World Series game to be played at Wrigley Field in seventy-one years, it seems appropriate to post it today. Click on the image above to view it. […]