Taking the Over

August 16, 2010

One pitch at a time, summer is drawing to a close and fall is elbowing its way through the door, ready to heap dead leaves upon our doorsteps and misery upon our non-playoff teams and their fans. Each passing day brings the post-season picture another step into focus. Some [...]

Braves’ star Chipper Jones tore his ACL fielding a ground ball earlier this week, ending his season prematurely. Jones has had plenty of injury problems over his career but they seem to be piling up lately to a point where retirement from baseball seems very likely. He’s had two consecutive seasons cut short by injury [...]

Mark McGwire finally gets it off his chest. Today Big Mac came clean and admitted that he used steroids throughout his career and in his home run record setting season in 1998. I guess it’s been looming. We all knew he did it, we all knew he was avoiding it. When the St. [...]

We may have seen our last 300 game winner. “The Big Unit”, Randy Johnson, retired from baseball yesterday. Ending a 22 year career, 46 year old Johnson leaves us as the best left handed pitcher of all time.

When Nolan Ryan retired in 1993, it took no time at all for the void to be filled [...]

So for about a week now we’ve heard so much about this Roy Halladay/Cliff Lee deal. I don’t see what’s so hard to get here. The controversy is the Phillies are trading away Cliff Lee, their best pitcher by far from last season, unhittable,  great personality, fan favorite, Cy Young winner, etc… I could go [...]

I sit here embarrassed that it has taken the World Series to inspire some baseball talk here at Taking The Over. The defending champion Philadelphia Phillies won their second straight National League pennant and await the best the American League has to offer.

The Philadelphia 40 man roster has some great stories. I guess you could [...]