Presenting…The 2015 Chicken Wolf All-Star Team!
The best players on the worst teams of 2015. Inspired by William “Chicken” Wolf of the awful Louisville Colonels.
Category Archives: Baseball Memories
Anybody Out There? Lowest Post-War Attendance by Franchise
This is part one of a three-part series where Scott Fendley looks at every franchise’s worst attendance year. Some of the results may surprise you… unless you’re a fan of that team.
Read moreIf This Isn’t Farewell, David Wright, it Probably Should Be
As tough as it is to ponder, David Wright should end his on-field career. On his own terms, and with the best interests of the team at heart.
Read moreThe 1930 Season, Steroids? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Steroids
I am truly sick and tired of mediots and yakkers STILL getting on their moral high horse about the “Steroid” era. EVERY era is somehow tainted.
Read moreA Tribute to Nate Colbert
The Padres have had more lean years than not, and not too many long term heroes. Nate Colbert is one, and he did it under the worst possible circumstances.
Read moreThe Most Disappointing Season For…The Seattle Mariners
After seemingly being stuck in neutral for many seasons, the Mariners almost made the playoffs in 2014 thanks to a late surge backed by a tremendous pitching staff and good seasons from Kyle Seager and Robinson Cano.
Read moreStrasmas: Six Years Later
Major League Baseball officially returned to Washington, DC in 2005, but it didn’t really come back until almost five years later: June 8th, 2010. For that was the day we were blessed with the arrival of a man named “Steve.”
Read moreJeff Ridgway and the 2007 D-Rays Bullpen
Advertisements If you troll through Reds message boards and comments on Facebooks (I don’t know how our Scott Kelly does it), you’ll notice that while fans accept that this team was going to stink, they didn’t realize how pungent their aroma would be. They also had no idea that the bullpen would be this foul. A bunch of whoziwhats and
Read moreThe Intentional Walking of Alvaro Espinoza by the Coward Roger Clemens
On a humid August evening, the unthinkable happened in the Bronx.
Read moreThe Most Disappointing Season For…The Chicago Cubs
You could joke that every season since 1945 has been a disappointment for the Cubs, but in reality, for many of those years they weren’t ready to contend. Here, though, they were just coming off of a playoff appearance and probably should have beaten the Padres in the NLCS.
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