Monthly Archives: September 2011

Major League Baseball: Which team will win it all? Poll

The postseason starts on Saturday. Which team will win the World Series?

Determining Major League Baseball NLDS Winners by Cultural Superiority

We already broke down the ALDS by cultural superiority and now it’s time for the NLDS. We decided to look at eight metrics to determine cultural superiority. The categories we chose are purposefully general, to give us the opportunity to compare on a level playing field. They are: City Nicknames, Average Ballpark Attendance, Popular Food [...]

2011 Major League Baseball playoff teams

Brief profiles of the eight teams that made this season’s Major League Baseball playoffs.

Determining Major League Baseball ALDS Winners by Cultural Superiority

Forget about who will win on the field. Let’s pick the winners of each League Division Series by a different metric: cultural superiority. Now, we get that likes and dislikes are subjective and just because something is popular, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily better. Have fun with this, please. We decided to look at eight tree-top [...]

Major League Baseball hitters in biggest slump in 20 years

By RONALD BLUM NEW YORK — Jason Giambi had never seen a power outage this severe. After watching scoring and home runs drop to levels not seen in two decades, he thinks he understands why.

Major League Baseball Objects to Dodgers’ Proposal to Auction TV Rights

Major League Baseball objected to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ proposal to hold an auction for the bankrupt team’s television rights.

Major league baseball playoff schedule

By United Press International

Major League Baseball Season Ends with a Bang: Red Sox Collape as the Rays Show Guts to Advance

It was a final day to remember as comebacks were plentiful.

Postseason Major League Baseball Glance

The Texas Rangers and Tampa Bay Rays are introduced before Game 1 of baseball’s American League division series playoffs Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, in Arlington, Texas.

David Moulton: Major League Baseball was never better than Wednesday night’s magic

What makes baseball excruciating at times is its ridiculously slow pace of play. What can make it better than all the other sports is that there is no clock.