MLB: Cardinals Get Swept and Now Sit Four Games Behind Cubs
ballhype.com 7/25/2008 — If you're a St. Louis Cardinals fan you have to be sick at what is going on in the bullpen these days.  With an opportunity to gain ground on the Chicago Cubs, the Cards instead get swept by the visiting Milwaukee Brewers and fall four games back. St. Louis has gone into the later innings with the lead more times than any other team in baseball and has now blown 24 save opportunities, ...

Hey Sportsbuy.com...Steve Bartman Is Not For Sale!
ballhype.com 7/25/2008 — Everyone in the free world knows who Steve Bartman is and how he is blamed for the Chicago Cubs losing a three-games-to-one lead against the Florida Marlins. Of course then the Marlins went on to the World Series and defeat the New York Yankees in six games. http://rawsportsblog.com/?p=1360  

ESPN's Useless Stat of the Day
juicedsportsblog.com 7/25/2008 — Why won't the Cubs win the World Series? Listen to ESPN tell ya: "The Cubs became the first team in the NL to win 60 games yesterday. The last time the first team in the NL to win 60 games won the World Series was 95."

Meanwhile, Down On The Farm
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3 UP: The Mets Are First, and Faulty Rumors
blogs.nypost.com 7/25/2008 — 1. The Mets are alone in first place for the first time since April 19. But that is not as interesting to me as this: There is so much talk about the parity in baseball. But there is not parity...

Cubs recall right-handed pitcher Jeff Samardzija — Major League Baseball News 7/25/2008
Cubs recall RHP Samardzija

Why Alexei Ramirez Isn't a Star — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/25/2008
Here in Chicago, there is a lot of talk about the "Cuban Missile," otherwise known as Alexei Ramirez, the second baseman for the White Sox.  In a great piece in the Examiner , JJ Stankevitz discusses Ramirez's transition from an afterthought ...

MLB: Cardinals Get Swept and Now Sit Four Games Behind Cubs — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/25/2008
If you're a St. Louis Cardinals fan you have to be sick at what is going on in the bullpen these days.  With an opportunity to gain ground on the Chicago Cubs, the Cards instead get swept by the visiting Milwaukee Brewers and fall four games ...

A Trip to Wrigley Field Reveals American Pride in Sports — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/25/2008
As this is my first post, I thought I would just take a look back at how different sports are today than they used to be in order to get things started. As our world changes, so do its recreational activities.  We have scandals, drugs, ...

Where IS the Love? — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/25/2008
As this is my first post, I thought I would just take a look back at how different sports are today than they used to be in order to get things started. As our world changes, so do its recreational activities.  We have scandals, drugs, ...