The pain on Derek Jeter’s face said it all. It looked like he just saw Medusa as his whole body went stone-stiff with pain. His little toss while lying on his stomach to second base was the dying ember of his season. The Yankees lost game one of the ALCS 6-4 to the Detroit Tigers, […]
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Alex Rodriguez played baseball on Thursday night. Or a more accurate description: he held a piece of wood in his hands and tried to hit a little white ball. Hitting that little white ball didn’t go so well and New York fans probably wish A-Rod would just go away at this point. The Baltimore Orioles
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The San Francisco Giants are moving on in the 2012 MLB postseason. The Cincinnati Reds are going home. This just didn’t seem possible a few days ago. It was just four days ago when Bronson Arroyo threw a seven inning gem leading to a 9-0 Cincinnati win and a commanding 2-0 lead in the National
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Alex Rodriguez is one of those rare players who can be a Jerk even when his teams manages to pull out a victory. The New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night to a take a 2 to 1 series lead with a little help from A-Rod … kind of. Going into the
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The San Francisco Giants were on the brink of elimination Tuesday night. Down two games to none they faced Cincinnati Reds righty Homer Bailey who pitched liked he had Zeus’s hand planted firmly in his butt. To make a long game short: Bailey delivered the goods. He went seven solid innings, striking out 10 and
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The St. Louis Cardinals got to Nationals starter Jordan Zimmermann and they got to him early. In an MLB playoff season that was leaning in favor of the away team, the Cardinals did everything in their power to reverse that trend. Zimmermann just never looked right on Monday night—kind of like the ads for Cougartown
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Sometimes a stat just jumps out at us here at Baseball Jerks. We call it a ‘Jerk-Stat.’ A Jerk-Stat is a stat that echoes the futility we see sometimes see on the field. Today’s Jerk-Stat: Home teams are just 2-6 during the playoffs entering Monday’s Divisional Series games. Danny Knobler of CBSSports.com tweeted: Of 10
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Errors and offensive inefficiency will kill you every time. Someone said that once at the bar I go to for occasions such as the Super Bowl, my birthday, Wednesday nights. It’s obvious, I know. But sometimes drunken bar wisdom cannot be denied—wisdom is wisdom. The saying was actually something more like, “these fn’ guys are
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