LeBron situation brings back Manny memories
July 12, 2010 by Tony Lastoria · Leave a Comment
This whole Lebron James saga which played out live on national TV and the internet the past couple of weeks was an eerie reminder for Cleveland fans of the whole Manny Ramirez saga which in its own way played out on TV back in 2000. While ESPN may not have been as big then as […]
Bryce Harper Is Lucky He Doesn’t Play Basketball
June 9, 2010 by Jon Pessah · Leave a Comment
What’s the difference between Bryce Harper and Eric Bledsoe? Money. Lots of money. Harper is the 17-year-old phenom taken first in Monday night’s baseball draft.  A latter day Mickey Mantle, Harper skipped the last two years of high school, was home schooled, got his GED and spent the past year at a junior college where […]
A Cardinal Weekend
June 7, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
The Cardinals had a good weekend against the Brewers, though it could have been better. Â Their slipup last night on ESPN’s game of the week dropped them back into a tie for first. Â I go over this series and the Reds series in my weekly column, but let’s take a look at them here as […]
My Dinner With Ernie
May 4, 2010 by Nick Waddell · Leave a Comment
“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.” I heard these words, and I knew it was time for baseball. I grew up just outside […]
Word Gets Around
May 4, 2010 by Gabriel Schechter · Leave a Comment
There’s a bruhaha brewing in Los Angeles, where GM Ned Colletti called center fielder Matt Kemp on the carpet this week and told the press it was because he wondered whether Kemp was resting on his laurels after signing a long-term, eight-figure contract, rather than giving 100% effort on the field. The esteemed ESPN.com columnist […]
I Told You So… or How Javier Vazquez Almost Broke My Leg
May 1, 2010 by Josh Deitch · 1 Comment
He’s not trying to get outs and win baseball games. He’s trying to avoid being on the back page of the Daily News, his hat pulled down over his eyes, his head tilted downward, walking off the mound as manager Joe Girardi waits to hand the ball to reliever Sergio Mitre.
Pitchin’ On The Dock Of The Bay
April 26, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
You knew, just looking at the matchups, two things about this weekend’s series. Â One, it was going to be darn tough for the Cardinals to keep their streak of not losing a series alive. Â The second was that if anyone scored, it was going to be a fairly impressive accomplishment. Sometimes when you think you […]
Welcome Back
April 4, 2010 by Josh Deitch · 4 Comments
A hearty and healthy “Welcome Back” to all the details of Major League Baseball. I love the digital age. At exactly 8:23 Sunday evening, I knew baseball season had officially returned. Granted, I had arranged my Sunday around baseball’s opening night.  I had spent the late afternoon and early evening grilling cheeseburgers with sides of […]
Seamheads.com Beefs Up Its Roster For 2010
March 1, 2010 by Mike Lynch · Leave a Comment
Recently I put out a call for new writers and was floored by the response. In just a week, we’ve added 36 new writers, a lot of whom are professionals or have had the pleasure of covering baseball during their lives, including Sean Lahman, Gabriel Schechter, and former ESPN senior writer Jon Pessah, who helped […]