At 7-4 the Boston Red Sox sit atop the American League East very early in the 2013 MLB campaign. With Ryan Dempster on the bump tomorrow, the Sox open as -130 favorites to sweep away the Tampa Bay Rays in an 11 AM first pitch start on Monday. FREE PICK The Rays pose nice value [...]

There’s some added excitement in the air for ball fans with the 82nd annual Major League Baseball all-star game, known as the Midsummer Classic, is set for Chase Filed in Phoenix, Arizona on July 12th. The American League squad will be managed by Ron Washington of the Texas Rangers while the National Leaguers will be [...]

The Boston Bruins have won the Stanley Cup, the Dallas Mavericks were able to take down the Miami Heat in the NBA Championships and the NFL has yet to start training camp.  The MLB is the only one of the big four North American sports with games still being played over these summer months that [...]

Well, after a month of fantastic, exciting baseball, the race for the World Series has been narrowed down to 2 teams: the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers.  For the Rangers, this will be their first trip to the World Series.  This post-season they have single-handedly re-written their history by winning a playoff series [...]

At the start of the year how many people out there thought the Yankees would be on the brink of another World Series appearance?  Just as expected, a majority of you.  How many thought the Texas Rangers would be there?  Just as expected…very few.   Despite not being given much of a chance, the Texas Rangers [...]

Is anyone really surprised to see the Philadelphia Phillies? They’ve been to the final dance the last 2 years and certainly have a lineup that could see them back there for a third straight year.  For the Giants it’s been 8 years since making it this far into the season.   The season series between these [...]

How fitting is it that 2 of the 3 teams who were battling it out right down to the final game of the season would face each other in the NLDS?  Both of these teams didn’t know their playoff fates until the very last pitch of the 162nd game of their schedules.   The Giants haven’t [...]

At the end of the 2010 MLB season the Minnesota Twins sat atop their division and the Yankees finished in the wildcard spot after dropping a crucial series to their rivals the Boston Red Sox.  Naturally, one would think going into the post-season that the Minnesota Twins would have the upper hand.  However, when you [...]

For the Texas Rangers, a return to the postseason has been a long time coming.  The Tampa Bay Rays…not so much.  However, it is fair to say that both teams have seen resurgences in the last couple years and that’s the reason they are facing each other this year in the ALDS.   Tampa comes into [...]

In all of the MLB’s playoff series I don’t think there is a bigger underdog than the Cincinnati Reds going against the Philadelphia Phillies. No matter what angle you look at it from it just screams at me mis-match. Even in the one category, offense, that the Reds might have had an edge, the Phillies [...]