Pronk Needs You!

This picture pretty much illustrates how things went for the Indians last night. As you can clearly see, Lofton’s hand is on the bag while Dustin Pedroia, with the ball, is actually tagging second base. His eventual tag of Lofton was high, up on Lofton’s shoulder, but that didn’t stop umpire Brian Gorman, who [...]

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Clues it wasn’t the Indians’ night:

Josh Beckett was dealing.
CC Sabathia was getting ahead and then nibbling.
The bottom of the Sawx lineup showed up.
Grady Sizemore made an unchargeable error in the field.
Rafael Perez looked awful for the second straight appearance against the Sawx.
Tom Mastny, as seems to be the case most times when he pitches with [...]

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If you grew up watching Superhost on Channel 43 in Cleveland, or Mystery Science Theatre 3000, then you probably remember the Gamera movies. Gamera was a giant turtle who primarily wanted to be left alone, but occasionally, Gamera was called out of the deeps to save Japan from a mutant monster from outer space and [...]

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It’s even. Flip a coin.
Both teams tied for the best record in baseball. Both teams have great starting pitching and solid bullpens. Both teams can score runs and have solid hitters 1 through 9. The differences between these two teams statistically are not that significant.
The only significant advantage that Boston has [...]

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They’re leaving today. The Yankees (aka, the Forces of Evil and Darkness in the Baseball Universe - FEDBU) will scatter today, packing their gear and traveling to various parts of the globe where they can spend their offseason counting their cash and pondering how they managed to lose in the ALDS to an allegedly inferior [...]

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