Terry Collins was hired as the 20th manager in the history of The New York Mets. Coming off of their second consecutive losing campaign in 2010, The Mets were left for dead. They have the owner in Fred Wilpon that lost money to Bernie Madoff and now he is stuck with needing to pay shortstop [...]
Every year agents like Scott Boras sucker Major League Baseball owners and general managers into overpaying for talent. For all the free agents that hit the market, most usually do not live up to the deals they sign. The new breed of thieves consists of Boston Red Sox pitcher John Lackey, New York Met outfielder [...]
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is on cloud nine after his Mavericks took their talents to South Beach and defeated The Miami Heat to become NBA Champions. First and foremost Cuban is a fan of sports and he not the usual uptight owner that we are accustomed to seeing. Cuban took over The Mavericks in [...]
Fans of The New York Mets have voiced their opinion and displayed it as well to the front office, do not trade Jose Reyes. The Mets hosted The Atlanta Braves Sunday and the crowd of 21,000 sounded like 35,000. Every time Reyes stepped to the plate chants of "J-O-S-E-J-O-S-E-J-O-S-E" echoed throughout Citi Field. Some Met [...]
Every year Major League Baseball scouts travel around the world searching for the best prospects. Most prospects do not make it as only a select few make it to the big leagues. When it comes to pitchers, scouts always look for that pitcher with the barn burning fastball that will put fear into hitters. For [...]
For the first ten years of their existence, The Tampa Bay Rays were cellar dwellers in The American League East. Whenever opposing teams traveled to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg they knew it was an easy win versus the lowly Devil Rays as the were once referred to. In 2007 team owner Stuart Sternberg dropped [...]
After the 2008 season pitcher CC Sabathia signed a mammoth seven year, 162 million dollar deal with The New York Yankees. Yankee general manager Brian Cashman sweetened the deal by giving Sabathia an opt-out clause after the 2011 season. There is plenty of time to speculate what Sabathia will do once the season is over, [...]
With all the speculation that The New York Mets may slash the team's payroll shortstop Jose Reyes' name has surfaced as trade bait. Owner Fred Wilpon is cash strapped due to litigation alleged that Wilpon made money from The Bernie Madoff scandal. Citi Field which opened in 2009 as the new home of The Metropolitans [...]
In recent years The New York Mets have fallen on hard times with the consecutive losing seasons. It was evident that a change needed to be made. After a subpar 2010 in which The Mets won 79 games, Met owner Fred Wilpon parted ways with general manager Omar Minaya after six disappointing seasons. Wilpon may [...]