Did Nick Swisher Steal Fan's T-Shirt Idea?

Anyone else getting tired of umpires holding postgame press conferences to breakdown their poor decision making processes? It's bad enough we have to listen Joe Girardi explain his terrible bullpen moves, but this is getting out of hand. Tim McClelland—who has been a Major League Umpire for 26 years—admitted after last night's ALCS game the he botched two calls...

It's late. I'm tired. This post will be abbreviated with a much longer one coming tomorrow at some point. I wanted to get something up before I went to bed. Who am I kidding? I'm probably going to bust out a full post. Time will tell.Tonight's game in a word: awesome. The Yankees crushed the Angels and are now firmly in the driver's seat with a 3 game to 1 lead on the Angels...

Hardcore Yankees fans don’t need me to tell them about Bald Vinny Milano. He is one of the members of the “Bleacher Creatures” at Yankee Stadium. Vinny was actually on the show earlier this year as we discussed the culture of the bleachers and had him as a guest. Today Vinny has made it to the [...]

Nick Swisher walks with two outs in the bottom of the second, the first base runner for the Yankees. Saunders hasn’t given up a hit, but he’s throwing a high percentage of his pitches for balls. The game is still scoreless. Update: Cano takes two strikes, then splits the outfielders as he triples up the [...]

Is this the worst postseason umpiring we've seen since Eric Gregg and Livan Hernandez? We've seen some great baseball this October...and no one's talking about it. That's because we've seen so many egregiously wrong calls that, really, who can talk about anything else? Already in tonight's game we've seen one of those runners up top get called safe somehow...

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Perhaps if the Angels started a right-hander in last night's ALCS Game 4, Yankees manager Joe Girardi would have given more thought to leaving the ice-cold Nick Swisher out of the lineup. However, the Angels went with lefty Scott...

The blown calls, irritating as they were (how in the hell do you miss the fact that both Cano and Posada were off the bag, something that was transparent to me up in the thin air, or the CS 2-6 against Nick Swisher in the second that suddenly wasn't), didn't contribute that much to the loss; no, that was mainly about Kazmir floundering and groping for the strike zone he couldn...

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by Jeff FletcherFiled under: American League Championship SeriesANAHEIM, Calif. -- Umpire Tim McClelland admitted missing two calls during Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Tuesday night, the latest incident in what has been a bad October for umpires. "I'm just out there trying to do my job and do it the best I can," McClelland said in a post-game...

Everyone here knows that I am not a big proponent of instant replay in baseball -- heck, I don't really like it that much in the NFL, either -- but if you're going to have umpiring crews that do not work in concert and are not willing to confer and overrule obvious bad calls, then Bud Selig's going to have to do what he did with the weather delays. Change the rules on...

ON THE MOUND:CC Sabathia's second gem of the series was enough to do away with any momentum the Angels gained yesterday. The Yankees pounded the Angels 10-1 tonight in Anaheim to pull to within one game of the pennant. CC was once again masterful as he dominated the Angels over eight innings, allowing just one earned run on five hits, walked two, and struck out five. He had everything...

Sporting News staff reports Major league umpires added to their collection of postseason slipups tonight, missing three calls in a two-inning span of Game 4 of the ALCS. Two of the calls went in the New York Yankees' favor, the other in the Los Angeles Angels' favor. One of the culprits was crew chief Tim McClelland, who generally is considered one of...

Steriods ? Who cares. Pete Rose? ****, build him a shrine in Cooperstown already and bring Shoeless Joe Jackson with him too. The Black Sox ? Please what a bunch of amateurs. None of these so called scandals and jackals of baseball can touch the umpiring we’ve seen this post season as the biggest scandal in baseball history. If Congress wants to investigate baseball forget who’s...