If the Rangers harbor hopes of winning it all, they need to be able to compete with the elite teams. All indications point to the Cubs being elite again in 2017. Yesterday we looked at first base, probably the weakest offensive position the Rangers had last year. Especially compared to […]
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 […]
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. […]