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Mauer has had one of the best offensive seasons ever, but it still might not be enough to win the American League's Most Valuable Player award.
Somewhere in the bowels of the soon-to-be vacant Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome there is a player who is quietly having one of the most spectacular offensive seasons in Major League history, and yet, almost no one is recognizing the tremendous numbers that Joe Mauer has ...
MLB Wednesday: NL Wild Card Race Comes Back to Life
Posted: 16th September 2009 by Sean Wagman in MLB
In a September in which playoff races are looking pretty dead and all but settled, there is one race between two very different teams that gives us a reason to keep paying attention.
Currently, barring a miraculous comeback, the San Francisco Giants are about to take down the Colorado Rockies and cut their deficit in the Wild Card to 2 1/2 games. So really the only relevant question that remains ...
MLB Wednesday: NL Wild Card Race Comes Back to Life
Posted: 16th September 2009 by Sean Wagman in MLB
In a September in which playoff races are looking pretty dead and all but settled, there is one race between two very different teams that gives us a reason to keep paying attention.
Currently, barring a miraculous comeback, the San Francisco Giants are about to take down the Colorado Rockies and cut their deficit in the Wild Card to 2 1/2 games. So really the only relevant question that remains ...
Monday Night Breakdown: Two Games, Two Surprises, The Same Expected Results
Posted: 15th September 2009 by Sean Wagman in NFL
Leodis McKelvin made a name for himself in the worst way possible last night.
Last night’s Monday Night Football double-header provided more than just insomnia for people living on the East Coast. It provided two games that were much more competitive than people were expecting, and two of the marquee moments of this opening week of the NFL season.
First, the New England Patriots escaped at home with a 25-24 win over ...
NFL Sunday Recap: What We (or Maybe Just I) Learned
Posted: 13th September 2009 by Sean Wagman in NFL
Age was served in Cleveland, with a LOT of help from Adrian Peterson
I am going to start this by saying that I am a little embarrassed for several reasons, the least of which being my 8-5 record heading into tonight’s Bears-Packers game, which based on Jay Cutler’s 2 INT’s will soon be 8-6.
The reasons that I’m embarrassed is because, I feel that after just one week that I already might ...
College Football Week Two Wrapup: Upsets, Drama, and Flops
Posted: 13th September 2009 by Sean Wagman in NFL
QB Case Keenum is the King of Houston as he led the Cougars to a huge upset of No. 5 Oklahoma State
Once again, college football fans have no reason to be unhappy with the way things went on a busy Saturday on the gridiron. For those of you who might have missed some of what happened, here’s some brief recaps on some of the Top 25 action, as well as ...
Amid the hype and hoopla of NFL Kickoff this weekend, the MLB playoff races continue, albeit that most of the races are over at this point. If you get the chance to at some point this weekend, though, do yourself a favor and take a really good long look at what Albert Pujols is doing for the St. Louis Cardinals right now. Even though it’s looking less and less likely ...