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On Thursday, Major League Baseball announced that they will be adding two more Wild Card teams — one in each league — and commissioner Bud Selig hopes to have this plan in place for this upcoming season.

Under this new plan, the two Wild Card teams will meet in a one-game playoff and the winner will advance [...]

American League Manager of the Year: Joe Maddon

I don’t think even the biggest die hard Tampa Bay Rays’ fan (if there is such a thing) could have envisioned the Rays making the postseason after losing Carl Crawford, Rafael Soriano, Carlos Pena, Joaquin Benoit, Matt Garza, and Jason Bartlett last winter and then even losing Manny Ramirez just five games into the season. But despite all [...]

Major League Baseball has just announced that Game 6 of the World Series will be postponed tonight and will be played at 8:05 pm est tomorrow night. Game 7 will be moved to Friday night.

This postponement has advantages for both teams.

For the St. Louis Cardinals,[...]

If you are the Milwaukee Brewers, you are going to have to have a short memory. You have to take what happened in Game 5 of the NLCS and throw it in the trash quickly.

The Brewers played a sloppy, mistake filled game in Game 5 and now find themselves in a 3-2 series hole in the best-of-seven NLCS. This game was a disaster on so many levels for the Brewers. Let’s look at their mistakes from this game…

October 9th, 2011

I thought the Detroit Tigers’ lineup didn’t have much depth without Delmon Young, who is out with an oblique injury, now their lineup is going to be even in more trouble without Magglio Ordonez.

The Tigers announced today that Ordonez will be out for the remainder of the ALCS with a right ankle injury. It’s the same ankle he had surgery on last year. [..]

Less than a week after General Manager Tony Reagins resigned, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have decided to part ways with two more front office employees. On Monday, the Angels let go Assistant GM Ken Forsch and Special Assistant to the GM, Gary Sutherland. Forsch was with the Angels organization for the past 14 [...]

In Game 5 of the 1984 World Series, Kirk Gibson came up to the plate with runners on second and third and one out in the bottom of the eighth with the Detroit Tigers up 5-4. San Diego Padres’ manager Dick Williams to have a strategy session with Rich “Goose” Gossage. Williams wanted to walk [...]

Let’s quickly recap yesterday’s action in the National League.

National League Wild Card

Atlanta Braves: Lost to Washington Nationals 4-1: Chien-Ming Wang shut down the Braves yesterday as the former New York Yankee allowed just four hits in six innings. [...]

Since our playoff update was a popular post on Wednesday, we are going to make this a regular thing up until the last day of the season. Let’s recap the meaningful National League action from yesterday.

National League Wild Card

Atlanta Braves: DNP [...]

This is really funny.

If you are in the market for an mascot’s outfit that appears to have an erection and have an extra $5,000 to spend, then I got the gift for you. The Amarillo Sox are auctioning off their mascot’s costume on Ebay.

All proceeds will be donated to four separate Amarillo charities during the 2012 season chosen by the Amarillo Sox organization.[...]