June 2009

It’s BaseballGB Fantasy League roundup time again. Can anyone stop Syracuse’s good form?

We’ve settled into a pattern with the early MLB games.  The opening part of the week is fairly quiet, with most (if not all) games being played at night.  The…

Admittedly, it was a fairly quiet week news-wise, but sometimes that’s not such a bad thing. Major League Baseball has already had its fair share of controversies this season, but…

There are some sights that you come to expect on a Major League ballfield.  Albert Pujols blasting two homers in a game is a common sight, albeit an always spectacular…

Yesterday I was reading in The Great American Novel about the record-breaking exploits of the woeful Ruppert Mundys, a team that finishes with an abysmal 34-120 record in the 1943…

I was very grateful when Ron Rollins, writer of the excellent Baseball Over Here blog, asked if I would contribute to an interview piece about BGB.  Ron is an American…

As time is running out to vote for the players you want to see taking part in the All-Star Game, I thought it was about time I made my selections.…

Scenario: With a runner on second base and one out, the batter hits a ground-ball to the shortstop, and the runner appears to deliberately try to interfere with the shortstop…

After the Mets picked up a pair of reasonably comfortable victories against the NBL newcomers on 14 June, it seemed that maybe Herts’ impressive first-half form might fizzle out into…

EDIT: I wrote the original version of this post on the back of a couple of messages stating that ESPN America was down. Judging by other comments on the web,…