It's not hyperbole to call the Angels the biggest disappointment of the 2013 baseball season. In fact, L.A. should be used to it by now with the Lakers and Dodgers as well. Read more »
Graham Flashner - Baseball Analysis
Angels Continue String Of L.A. Disappointments
These Mets Can Play
The Mets could have folded at the start of an unfortunate season, but they have battled through injuries to remain on the fringe of the Wildcard. Read more »
Yanks Pay Their Respects To Torre, Then Beat Him
The Joe Torre Love Fest began Wednesday and continued through Friday when his old players paid their respects, Godfather-style, by the batting cage. Read more »
Magic In The Air At Chavez Ravine
Friday was ?I Love The 80s? night at Dodger Stadium, so it seems only appropriate to ask: is this the best Dodgers team since the champs of 81 and 88? Read more »
Manny Mania Hits L.A.
Manny has already left an indelible stamp on the club, injecting passion into a normally staid organization. Read more »
These Mets Not So Amazin?
If there?s one thing the ?08 Mets have proven, it?s that last year?s dreadful denouement may not be the aberration that everyone assumes. Read more »
Dodgers Jonesing For The Real Andruw
Andruw Jones explains to RealGM why he still has high hopes for 2008. Read more »
Random Thoughts On The Post-Season
Don?t ever tell me how the hot team at the end of the regular season has the upper hand going into the playoffs. I don?t want to hear it. Ever again.
If that were the case, the Dodgers would?ve met the Twins in the World Series. Read more »
Finally, Mets Face A Big Game
The problem with wrapping up your division in July and sweeping a first-round series from a banged-up wild-card team is, you don?t know how you?re going to respond to adversity. And after Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, it?s Adversity 1, New York Mets 0. Read more »
Dodgers Could Pose Threat To Mets
The Dodgers are just the kind of team that can throw a scare into the Mets. Of course, they have to get there first, but 1988 was the last year the Mets won the NL East, and it was the last year the Dodgers won a World Series. Read more »
A Tale Of Two Massacres
The pennant race wasn?t over after the ?78 massacre, and it isn?t over here. The Red Sox get one more shot at the Yankees in September, four games at Yankee Stadium. But realistically, you have to figure, given the sorry state of Red Sox pitching, that the division?s been lost. And, given the quality of pitching of the teams ahead of them ? the wild card?s likely gone as well. Read more »
Mets To Atlanta: Buh-Bye
After a decade of indignities visited upon by them by the always-superior Atlanta Braves, the Mets put the hurt on their tormentors. Sweet revenge came in a barrage of hits, home runs, and ace relief pitching, as the Mets swept a series at Turner Field for the first time in 21 years, and virtually ended any outside prayers Atlanta had of winning the NL East. Read more »
Pedro Undone By Boston Love-Fest
Surrounded by a wealth of Fenway love, Pedro Jaime Martinez proceeded to get creamed. The Red Sox beat him with their bats, but they killed him with love. Pedro confessed to being the ?number one Red Sox fan? and lamented a statement he?d made in 2004, when he said he loved the city too much to leave. Read more »
Ex-Yankees Loom Over Series
You think it?s going to be tough for Cubs fans to watch this World Series? Yankee fans, too, may want to turn off their televisions. Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte pitching in Astros uniforms, trying to bring the state of Texas its first Series trophy? Jose Contreras and El Duque Hernandez, trying to bring Chicago its first World Series in 88 years? Read more »
Dream May Be Over For Astros
This was supposed to be a column about the glory of two teams who never make it to the World Series, finally making it. The Cardinals were as dead as their about-to-be-demolished ballpark. They?d already dropped seven straight post-season road games. They were about to waste another 100-win regular season. They were about to. Read more »
Braves (Yawn) Are Out Once Again
There are two things certain in October. The leaves will turn colors. And the Atlanta Braves will be eliminated from the National League playoffs. Playing the equivalent of a doubleheader yesterday in Houston, the Braves got knocked out in the first round for the fourth year in a row. Read more »
White Sox Are The New Red Sox
Fittingly, the team that took 86 years to win a World Series stands on the brink of elimination against the team that that hasn?t won a World Series in 87 years. Read more »
Indians Have No One To Blame But Themselves
So you finally thought the baseball playoffs could take with either the Yankees or the Red Sox sitting on the sidelines? Not so fast. Just when it looked as if the Cleveland Indians were poised to become the new sheriff in town, their Cinderella ride has hit a major speed bump. Read more »
Braves Cited For Abuse Of Mets
In an historic report, the human rights organization Amnesty International has cited the Atlanta Braves baseball club for a ?systematic pattern of abuse and torture? against the New York Mets and their fans, extending as far back as 1998. Read more »
NL Puts The Wild in Wild Card
As play ended on Labor Day, five teams were within 3 games of first in the NL Wild Card. But because four of those teams come from the same division?the East--, the advantage has to go to the one team not in that division, the Houston Astros. Read more »