Just before the regular season started, we ran through our postseason picks. The only two playoff teams we missed were the Diamondbacks and Twins, the latter of which is already bounced anyway. On that podcast episode, I said I liked the Dodgers and Red Sox to win it all, but…

Wow. That happened. The Cubs and White Sox made their first trade since the famous 2006 David Aardsma for Neal Cotts swap, which mattered very little for either team. This one is bigger than that. This is more of the Sammy Sosa-George Bell variety of magnitude. But unlike that trade…

I was 10 years old, and school had been out for a few days at this point. For a 10 year old, the start of summer vacation is the best. There is nothing to get more excited for. But on this June afternoon, I don’t really remember thinking much about…

If you’ve been watching the World Baseball Classic, it definitely means two things: You have MLB Network. You were, for at least a smidgen, intrigued by Team Israel. Israel, though now eliminated, had one of the most — if not the most — captivating run in the WBC’s short history…

People (mainly, baseball nerds and insomniacs who are awake at 3 a.m. to watch a baseball game ) have had a lot to say about Bruce Chen pitching in the World Baseball Classic over the past few days. Rightly so, much of the discussion was about how embarrassing it must…

I was sitting in a Chicago Panera Bread, waiting for my food and pretending to check my phone obligatorily. It was taking longer than normal, so in between glancing at tweets and texts, I’d gaze around the restaurant and people watch. And that’s where I saw him, Kyle Hendricks, polishing…

Here is a fun (or awful) little thought exercise. Who is your least favorite player in your lifetime on your favorite team? We all have them — a player we hated watching play on a team we loved. I have a few. Enough to make a team out of: C — post 2008 Geovany Soto 1B — Carlos Pena 2B — Neifi Perez SS — Ryan Theriot 3B — Ian Stewart OF — Matt Lawton OF — Jacque Jones OF — Milton Bradley UTIL — Jose Macias

Well, Anthony, here is the truest philosophical answer to a question that admittedly carries some ambiguity. Everything is a sandwich. By that, I mean everything has some sort of sandwich-like property, but some of course more than others. For example, a Reuben would have more sandwich-like properties than toast and…

At the time it was heralded as a blockbuster deal that could shape the future of two organizations and five years later, we can come to the conclusion that it was far from that. On this day in 2012, the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners agreed to trade…