http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/ This is my site with my opinions, but I hope that, like Irish Spring, you like it, too. en-us Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:16:00 PST Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 PST support2007@baseballtoaster.com 60 http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1200041.html Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this worldand never will. Inscription under Mark Twain's bust in the New York University Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame voting for 2009 is in the books, and the net result is that three new members will be greeted in the hallowed halls (or hall, actually) of Cooperstown: Rickey Henderson (a no-brainer), Jim Rice (in his last year of eligibility) and Joe Gordon (by the easier of the two bifurcated veterans committees). http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1200041.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:16:00 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1193534.html Happy Holidays! http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1193534.html Thu, 1 Jan 2009 21:49:15 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1170662.html I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. Ebenezer "Scroogie" Scrooge in "A Chrsitmas Carol" http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1170662.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:23:00 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1170063.html First, I just read that red is sexy, a little news tidbit that I see as a good omen for the Phils. http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1170063.html Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:44:00 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1169666.html A day later a few things have become clearer as the mist clears from the Fox TV cameras. Yes, the Phils were robbed of an abbreviated clincher. Yes, the culprit was Bud Selig. Commissioner Bud couldn't cotton to a world champion muddily celebrating after a umpire's signal rather than after a Tug McGraw-esque ninth inning-two out strikeout. So who cares about the rule book anyway? http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1169666.html Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:17:00 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1169283.html "In my own boorish way, I'm only suggesting that if you two gentlemen continue to work from a script with cues and stage directions, these proceedings take on all the dignity of a very bad Gilbert and Sullivan." http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1169283.html Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:47:00 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1168789.html The Phils pummeled the Rays tonight 10-2 in game four of the World Series to take a commanding three-games-to-one lead. And the game wasn't even that close as the Phils' inability to score within the red zone continued to handcuff them in the early innings. They left the bases loaded in the first and third innings and left seven men on base in total. Meanwhile the Rays could do little more than hit two solo home runs. http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1168789.html Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:33:38 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1168746.html The Phils are beating the Rays 6-2 in the middle of the sixth inning of game 4 of the World Series, and Joe Blanton, besides pitching an inspired game so far, has been an unexpected hero at the plate. Blanton went deep for the first time in his career in the fifth and established a little corner of history for himself. http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1168746.html Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:29:27 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1168594.html Hell of a game. It's too late to say much more. http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1168594.html Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:22:19 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1167295.html Cole Hamels has a chance to have demonstrably the greatest postseason pitching performance of all time. He is currently 4-0 with a 1.55 ERA in four starts. Should he get one more starthe is tabbed for game 5he could become the first pitcher in baseball history to win five games without a loss in a postseason. http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/1167295.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:18:55 PST