A sports blog by and for Midwest Sports Fans
As any person who has cable or Internet access knows by now, Tim Tebow is achieving success despite not being an ordinary NFL quarterback. In this post, Josh Tinley presents nine other athletes who have followed the Tebow model of succeeding despite unconventional styles of play.
In a sports world filled with greed and fights over a couple more million dollars, Pujols stood out as the beacon of hope against greed and as loyalty to a team. Or so we thought.
I don’t want to come off as the type of person who tells people how to raise your kids or how to be a parent; but I feel, as a victim of what I’m about to discuss, that I need to speak out. Please, whatever you do, do not raise your child as a Chicago Cubs fan.
Yesterday MLB announced that the Houston Astros will be switching leagues, moving from the National League Central to the American League West in 2013. Josh Tinley takes a look back at the list of inter-league switches in baseball history.
Tyler Juranovich doesn’t really care what Theo Epstein did with Boston. He doesn’t care to hear about his success stories, and he doesn’t care about his failures. All he cares about is seeing his Chicago Cubs team start winning and becoming a serious threat in the MLB.
Ten of the funniest MLB bloopers of our generation. Hit play, sit back and prepare yourself for a few cheap laughs!
This image, found at a post entitled “11 Accidentally Dirty Baseball Pictures” just may be the funniest baseball photobomb ever caught on camera. (Also: a bonus picture of Randy Johnson about to do ungodly things to a pole!)
On sports television, radio, and everywhere, talking heads bemoan the “idea” that baseball is just TOO long to watch, but the facts dispute this, and other criticisms of baseball, which is why baseball bashers need to stop being hypocritical.
I’m not a Red Sox fan or a hater, but I watched the whole thing and thoroughly enjoyed it. What a great, great night of baseball. Wow.
This is one of the more hilarious videos you’re likely to see on the Interwebs today…and we can laugh at it because no one got hurt, except maybe the rather impulsive dad who made the split second decision that going after a fly ball was more important than protecting his kid.
The Detroit Tigers are a World Series contender in 2011. Here are five reasons why you should care about the Tigers this year.
The Cubs put Carlos Zambrano on the disqualified list for 30 days after his latest outburst. Cubs GM Jim Hendry, said that it was the harshest punishment without actually releasing Zambrano. Tyler Juranovich’s question is: Why didn’t Hendry just release Zambrano?
July 25th was a glorious day for football fans everywhere. There will be a 2011 football season. Wooo! Yay!! But let’s not get ahead of ourselves: football can wait.
What do the anomalous career-high home run seasons of Wade Boggs and Brady Anderson, plus a legend about extra tightly wound balls, have to do with eachother? You’ll have to read this to find out.
This is the third in a monthly series called “Down on the Farm” that will chronicle my visits to various minor league parks throughout the 2011 season. (Part 1 can be found here and part 2 here.)
