The 2010 World Series is upon us. In the next week or two we have the chance to see baseball history, to see two teams competing at the highest level for the crowning achievement in all of baseball. Along the way, perhaps we’ll share in a collective moment that will last a lifetime.
As we prepare to watch the Texas Rangers face off against the San Francisco Giants in this year’s Fall Classic, let’s have a look back at some of the greatest moments in World Series history.
The 2010 season will go down in baseball history for what will be perhaps the biggest loss of managerial talent the game has ever suffered in a single year.
We now know that Tony La Russa will be back with the Cardinals next year, but that only means the damage is being contained; Major League Baseball will nevertheless begin next season without managerial icons Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, or Lou Piniella.
With Charlie Manuel not getting any younger, and Jim Leyland and Cito Gaston looking just plain tired at the end of last season, who knows where the carnage will end?
To commemorate the retirement of three legendary forces inside the clubhouse, we take a look at the Top 100 Major League Managers of All Time.
Another day has come and gone, and still no baseball. We hear that there will be a National League Championship Series played soon, but we are beginning to have our doubts. The NLCS allegedly starts on Saturday. We’ll see.
In the meantime, as we continue to prepare to watch baseball, here are some more things to think about ahead of Game 1.
Alright, the NLCS field is all set. It is going to be the Philadelphia Phillies and the San Francisco Giants. The uniforms have been washed, the shoes have been shined, let’s throw on our Roy Halladay replica jerseys and get to the ballpark.
We’re going to be playing some championship baseball in just . . . five days?!?!?!
Uh, okay.
(Psst: who’s in charge of scheduling around here? Oh right; the networks.)
Anyways, in order to attempt to hold your attention for the next week while we wait for baseball to come around again (seriously, the All Star Break isn’t this long), I’d like to present 10 Fun Facts regarding the Philadelphia Phillies, the San Francisco Giants, and the National League Championship Series.
Just the other day, a buddy and I were lamenting the lack of hotness in sports.
Yeah, sure, there are cheerleaders and ball girls and stuff like that, but what the sports world needs is real hotness.
And while we probably can’t force all professional athletes to marry Playboy babes, like quarterback Jeff Garcia and Carmella DeCesare, we came up with a few ideas that might help the movement along nonetheless.
If you are a fan of the Philadelphia Phillies, this isn’t really the matchup you wanted. If you’re a fan of the San Francisco Giants, this isn’t really who you wanted to see. But if you’re a fan of great pitching, great matchups and great baseball, well, this is exactly what you wanted to see.
The Giants knocked off the Atlanta Braves in Game 4 of the NLDS on Monday (Bobby Cox, we hardly knew ya) and move on to face the Phillies in the National League Championship Series for a chance to go to the World Series.
The matchup pits one of the best teams in baseball for the last five years against one of the best teams in baseball history. While the Phillies are looking to become the first National League team since the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1940s to make three straight World Series appearances, the Giants haven’t been to a World Series since 2002 and are still looking for their first championship since moving to San Francisco.
Here is a look at some of the ins and outs of the upcoming series.
Roy Oswalt got roughed up in his first postseason game for the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, giving up three earned runs in just five innings in what would eventually become a Phillies’ Game 2 victory. This was on the heels of Cliff Lee’s first postseason appearance with the Texas Rangers, in which Lee went seven innings, allowing only one earned run with 10 strikeouts and no walks.
So will Oswalt or Lee guide their newly adopted teams to postseason glory? If past midseason pitcher acquisitions are any indication, the odds aren’t good. Let’s have a look.
The 2010 MLB Playoffs are only just underway—each NLDS series is only one game old—and we’ve got both drama and storylines. Rarely has the first six games of a baseball playoff season been so eventful.
As we head into this weekend’s games, here’s a look at the storylines that have begun to develop. Some teams are doing the opposite of what we expected, while Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees are doing exactly what we expected.
Let’s have a look.
October is upon us, which means it is time for the 2010 MLB postseason. If baseball is a wonderful world in which the amazing can happen, then postseason baseball is a fantastic universe in which heroes are made and impossible dreams come true.
Every season, or so it seems, the MLB postseason gives us something that we’ll cherish and remember forever.
To that end, let’s have a look at the top 25 single season performances in Major League Baseball postseason history.
The playoff picture in the American League is all but set, with the New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers simply dotting the eyes and crossing the tees on their way to October.
There is a little drama left in the National League, as the Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, and San Diego Padres battle it out with the Atlanta Braves for the NL wild card and the NL West division title.
For the most part, we know who is going to be in the playoffs this season. But what about next season? Which teams that are on the outside looking in this year will be in good shape to make a move into October next season?
Let’s have a look.