MLB
My 2026 MLB Predictions: Every Team, Every Division, and the Dodgers Win Again
The Dodgers are going to win the World Series again, and most of the baseball world already knows it. They were the two-time defending champions before Opening Day even started, and then they went out and signed Kyle Tucker for $240 million and Edwin Diaz to close games. Nobody is stopping this team. But let...
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The Dodgers Are Beatable in 2026 and One Team’s Rotation Proves It
The Dodgers are not unbeatable. They keep surviving things that should end them, and at some point surviving and winning stop being the same thing. Four separate moments in Game 7 had to go their way on the same night just to reach extra innings at Rogers Centre. That is not a dynasty operating at...
MLB
Rob Manfred Just Killed Baseball. The Savannah Bananas Are Ready
Rob Manfred called a lockout “a positive.” The commissioner of Major League Baseball looked at the idea of shutting his own sport down and used the word positive. Tony Clark, the head of the players union, just resigned in disgrace four days ago after getting caught in a federal investigation involving his sister-in-law he personally...
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The MLB 2027 Lockout Just Got Way More Likely
The MLB 2027 lockout odds just jumped because the players’ union lost its top voice at the exact moment it needed to look bulletproof. Tony Clark resigned this week, and the reporting around it is not the kind you file under “messy breakup” or “awkward office email.” It includes an internal finding of an inappropriate...
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MLB Wants In on Prediction Markets After FTX and the Guardians Gambling Scandal, They Shouldn’t Touch It
MLB can flirt with prediction markets, but after FTX and a fresh pitch-fixing case, baseball should keep its distance. Fans are already drowning in gambling ads, and this is how sports get unwatchable. Baseball doesn’t need another “innovative partnership” that sounds smart in a boardroom and feels gross on your couch. Rob Manfred has openly...
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MLB’s ABS Challenge System Is Exposing the Truth: Players Don’t Actually Know the Strike Zone
MLB’s ABS challenge system will roast players who swear they know the strike zone. Early spring numbers show challenges are basically a coin flip, and that’s the whole joke. Everybody wants robot umps until the players can’t stop challenging the wrong pitches. The helmet tap is about to become baseball’s new version of yelling at...
MLB
Dodgers Fans Saying “Cry Harder” After the Kyle Tucker Signing Are Missing the Whole Point
Dodgers fans yelling “cry harder” after Kyle Tucker are missing the point: nobody thinks you’re cheating. We’re mad at MLB’s broken setup, and it could cost us a season. You want the honest truth? I don’t blame you for celebrating. Your team just went back to back in 2024 and 2025, and then turned around...
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Alex Bregman to the Cubs Is a $175M Middle Finger, and the $70M Deferred Part Is the Funniest Detail
Alex Bregman to the Cubs for $175 million with $70 million deferred is MLB at its most ridiculous: big-money flex dressed up as “responsible” accounting, and Boston got burned playing tough. The Cubs didn’t just sign a star. They pulled off the most baseball thing possible: spend like a contender, talk like a penny-pincher, and...
NHL
What is the sports equivalent to #ConformityGate
As I am sure you have heard, Stranger Things ended on New Years Eve. The finale was met with a wide range of opinions. Some people loved it, others hated it. I am of the opinion that the finale was mid. Really though the internet is trying to convince the world that tonight January 7th...
MLB
Bob Nutting Cheap Owner Blueprint: How MLB’s Cheapest Owners Fake Aggression
Every winter, MLB teams start talking spicy. “We’re going to be aggressive.”“We have the resources.”“We know we have to do more.” If you are a Pirates fan, you have heard this monologue on loop. President Travis Williams says Bob Nutting has opened the wallet. Ben Cherington keeps dropping “aggressive offseason” buzzwords. Agents hear that Pittsburgh...
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Mets Trade Brandon Nimmo For Marcus Semien: What This Move Really Says About Steve Cohen’s Offseason Plan
The Mets have traded fan favorite outfielder Brandon Nimmo to the Texas Rangers in exchange for the surehanded second baseman Marcus Semien. On the surface this trade hurts because Nimmo was a huge part of the Mets for nearly a decade, but it may foreshadow what might be in store for the New York Metropolitans...
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