Category: MLB General

Here are the power rankings for a week that saw one playoff race continue to heat up (AL Wild Card) and another continue to bore (NL West). Comments and questions are always welcome.

It’s September, which means it’s crunch time for Major League Baseball. It’s the time of year when players give that extra effort to help their respective teams get into the playoffs. This September will be an exciting month, with both wild card races already going down to the wire. Here is how it will be played out in October.

“All great things come to an end,” however clichéd and unoriginal it may sound, it’s true. Even in baseball: players age, teams rebuild–it’s an inevitable cycle.

While high-market clubs like the Yankees and Red Sox may have more flare and sizzle than lowlier, modest clubs like the A’s, it’s teams like the A’s who avoid lengthy, piteous rebuilding stages because they consistently maintain a nucleus of young talent and don’t spend frivolous dollars on over-the-hill, washed up veterans.

It comes down to promoting from within–maintaining a zealous, fervent farm system of young guys who are committed to winning. The teams that do that will never be out of contention.

The following clubs will be talked about long after the Yankees and Red Sox recede into mediocrity.

Here are the latest power rankings after the MLB’s 22nd week. Criticisms and questions are always appreciated.

    Just five months after proclaiming to a congressional panel, “I have never taken steroids. Period,” Rafael Palmeiro has become the seventh domino to fall to the new MLB steroid testing policy. While other notable players have been revealed as users, such as Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees, Palmeiro’s case is the most unusual as he had nothing to gain and everything to lose.

Now that Rafael Palmeiro has been caught using steroids we have to wonder about whether his career was legitimate or not. He’s a Hall of Famer if his numbers are mostly untainted. Whatever the case may be he needs to tell the truth, both for his own sake and for that of the general public.

A few years ago I saw a touching NFL advert, where the players went onto the streets to say “Thank You”.

So being the world’s best advertising guru, I had an idea for MLB players to do exactly the same thing- except with slight different wording. It would be called “Sorry.” And no, it’s not ALL going to be about steroids…

If you venture into the 85-degree summer nights that San Bernardino California has to offer, you might stumble upon what some call a “diamond in the rough”. Nestled in downtown San Bernardino amongst the not so booming nightlife is Arrowhead Credit Union Park.

Sitting down during the brutal heat of August, foreign thoughts rummage through my mind.

Damn, still two games back, and Shit, the Phils are a half game back of the Astros, and Maybe we can catch them all if McKeon could get fired or realize that he should never use his bullpen.

And then I think, Why am I thinking about baseball?

Here are the power rankings after another week in the MLB. Questions, comments and criticisms are always welcome.