Since the beginning of the season, the NL Central has been the tightest overall division race in all of baseball. Currently, four teams are within five games of first place, and as recently as June 28th, all six teams were within that same striking distance of the division title. With approximately two months two go [...]
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MLB Needs to Release the Entire 2003 Steroid List ASAP
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were named as two of the 104 major league players listed as having tested positive for performance-enhancing substances in 2003. According to the Times, the source of these claims was “lawyers with knowledge of the results”. While no one should be shocked [...]
Friends in the MLB
Often in college, J. Price and I would sit around and talk about our athletic careers of yesteryear — specifically our baseball careers — and talk about how if this injury hadn’t occurred, or if that coach had just recognized our brilliance, we woulda seriously considered finding a little D-III school and tried to play [...]
MLB Power Rankings – July 28th
The Cubicle GM Power Rankings remain unanimous at the top and at the bottom, with the Dodgers remaining in first and the Nationals in last. The coasts dominate the rankings, with the first Central Division team from either league coming in at No. 7 in the form of the Tigers. The top of the rankings [...]
A Look at Mark Buehrle’s Perfect Game…From Someone Who Was There
I was lucky enough to be one of the 28,036 in attendance at Comiskey Park U.S. Cellular Field on Thursday afternoon to watch Mark Buehrle throw the 16th perfect game in modern MLB history (18th overall). I’ve seen guys hit milestone home runs, pitchers earn their 300th victory (twice), division clinchers and World Series games [...]
MLB Parity Non-Issue in the 00′s
With the decade quickly coming to a close, there is surely bound to be no shortage of ‘Decade in Review’ and ‘Decade Superlative’ columns, especially as we have no Y2K looming. At the very beginning of this decade, MLB was considering contraction of two of its squads, as the Expos (remember them?) and Twins came [...]
MLB Power Rankings – July 21
After a lovely All-Star Break, the Cubicle GM Power Rankings are fully refreshed and back in action. With the return of Joey to the group, we have a full complement of contributors and an interesting set of rankings to discuss. Amazingly, despite the two week period between rankings, most teams did not shift too far [...]
Red Sox Buchholz Rant
Its Rant Week for Gideon here at CubicleGM. After feeling great about getting some All Star related troubles off my chest, I return for some Red Sox and Buchholz related ranting. I have been diligent to not let my personal allegiances dominate my posts., but a mere four months after my first , I am [...]
All Star Game Rant
I was going to hold back, but after reading Jacob’s post, I shall rant, I must rant: The frequency of the players entering and being substituted for made the game almost impossible to follow. The fact that the innings were so short only exacerbated the problem too. Joe Buck hardly had a chance to introduce [...]
Either the MLB All-Star Game Shouldn’t Count or the Eligibility Rules Need to Change
For the 13th straight year, the American League didn’t lose the All-Star Game. For the fourth straight year, they won it by just one run, defeating the National League by a score of 4-3 and clinching home field advantage in the World Series. With the game tied at 3-3 in the top of the eighth [...]
