With the Rockies hitting .251 as a team, scoring four runs per game, and Mike Hampton starting the season with an 0-3 8.83 ERA mark, the Rockies decided to make the hitting coach, Clint Hurdle the new manager.

Huh? [Read more →]

Jermaine Dye returns to the A’s line up tonight.

With the big right fielder slated to join the team’s 25 man roster it probably means, utility infielder, Mark Ellis will go back to AAA Sacramento to continue his apprenticeship.

But what about the big bad White Sox? [Read more →]

A’s middle reliever Jeff Tam had another dismal performance last night. Tam told reporters after the game that if he knew his role in the bull pen and had more work, he could get batters out.

Hey, Jeff your role is to come into the game in a meaningful situation, throw strikes, get the first guy you see out, leave the inhertited runners on base, then get ready to do the same thing the next time Art Howe summons you into a game.

How’s that for a definition of your role? [Read more →]

Once the fans finished giving Jason Giambi his Bronx Cheer greeting last night, a real baseball game broke out.

These two teams have changed dramatically up and down the lineup, but the in the end it was Mariano Rivera against Greg Myers with the game on the line.

Guess how it unfolded? [Read more →]

A’s fans get to see their former MVP, Jason Giambi when he returns to the Coliseum tonight. Do you cheer the player who led the team to the playoffs the last two years or boo the man who spurned the Bay Area for the bright lights of Broadway? [Read more →]

Rafael Palmiero will be a Hall of Famer some day, but Sunday he dogged it running out a fly ball that Seattle’s Mark McLemore dropped on the warning track, costing the Rangers a big 8th inning rally. [Read more →]

The AL Central race will be a three team race all season long. But who has the early edge? [Read more →]

Jermaime Dye’s return to the A’s has a look of uncertainty. What’s the hold up?

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The Seattle Mariners keep rolling along and are starting to remind veteran baseball observers of another team from the 90’s.

No, it’s not the Yankees. [Read more →]

The Mariners were trailing 2-0 in the top of the fifth inning. Three more outs and the game would be official. Then, if the skies opened with the A’s holding the 2-0 lead, the Mariners would be defeated. [Read more →]