This will be brief, but it bears mentioning:
Major League Baseball brought in the wild-card in 1995. It has added an extra round to the October playoffs, made for more exciting pennant races down the stretch and generally put a lot of money into the pockets of the people who own the teams.
It was somewhat of [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 9, 2007
Another thing George Bush sucks at…
October 5, 2007
Can’t quit you, baby
In sports, great athletes retire. Then they come back. Blame the saturated media coverage that turns fading stars into journalistic supernovas. Blame escalated pay scales that often leave a player collecting far more than he’s worth in the final seasons of his career. Blame the pure human instinct for one last delicious ego boost before [...]
October 3, 2007
Because I want to look like a genius later…
(I really am going to post more, starting this coming week; more about sports, but also more about Ontario and U.S. politics and some random weird shit. I promise this time, so relax, all four of you who complained)
To start us off then, this fall … some predictions for the coming National Hockey League season:
The [...]
