Baseball fans may be bracing for a bang-up World Series between the Yankees and the Phillies, but in the political world could there be anything more boring than sports wagering among fellow Democrats? In perhaps the most un-original sports bet ever, New York’s senators, Charles E. Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand, and Pennsylvania’s senators, Arlen Specter and Bob Casey are putting up Brooklyn cheesecakes against Philly cheese-steaks. May the most runs (not to mention trans-fats and calories) w

Welcome baseball and Jesus fans. This is easily one of the funniest religious spoofs I’ve ever heard. Enjoy. Posted in Funny Stuff

Amalie Benjamin of the Boston Globe tweeted it best on Monday afternoon: Boarding my flight to Anaheim for the ALDS. This feels very familiar. Ah, don't we all feel that way? For the the third straight year and fourth time in six postseasons, the Red Sox are packing up and heading west to start the playoffs against the Angels. You'd think that the shared history would make for a highly-anticipated session, but I'm willing to bet that baseball fans without a horse in the race would ra

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Seeing as there’s less than a month left to the season, we can begin to predict what the award winners are going to look like. The one I’d like to take a look at is the AL MVP race, and this is because it will divide old school baseball fans and more sabermetrically inclined fans for who should win. Positional valuation fun will be ALL over this one. I will list the Top 5 candidates, in the order that I foresee the writers voting for them. Also at the end I will list a few other candidates I s