May 2008

Whether they like it or not, Josh Hamilton and Edinson Volquez will forever be linked in baseball history. Both of them have the talent to be among the game’s elite, you could even argue- and win- that they are already there. Hamilton currently leads the league in RBI and Volquez is doing the same in ERA and strikeouts. No one figured that it was going to work out like this so soon, if at all, but it has, so the debate starts now: Hamilton or Volquez? [click to continue...]

I’ve been reluctant to write this column because, well - to be honest, I’ve just been waiting for the other shoe to drop.  It’s been almost eight weeks.  That the other shoe isn’t coming.  Lance Berkman is this good.  At the age of 32, when most hitters are entering the tail end of their prime, the Big Puma has found the fountain of youth. [click to continue...]

Nick and Jeff sit down with E.J. Fyke to talk about the NBA playoffs, the draft lottery, Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, the Tigers, the Charles Barkley incident, and much more in Epidsode Four of the Wire.

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I’ve been hard on Jon Lester, I’ll admit that.  I felt like everyone took it easy on him and never said anything negative about his game because of his medical condition, which may have been a cynical point of view, but I won’t apologize for that.  I just looked at the kid as a baseball player without paying any attention to his off the field issues, which is the same thing I try to do with everyone.  Until tonight, outside of his World Series performance last season, he didn’t impress me. [click to continue...]