Oakland A’s: MLB’s Top 3 Rotation

December 24, 2010 by Joshua Russell  
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I read an article by ESPN senior baseball writer, Buster Olney, where he ranked baseball’s top 10 rotations for this upcoming season. Big surprise is that the Phillies are tops with a couple of guys you might have heard of: Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, Roy Oswalt, and Cole Hamels. The Bay Area had a pretty [...]

Oakland A’s NOT Bay Area’s Highest Paid Athletes

November 21, 2010 by Joshua Russell  
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I was looking through the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal yesterday and saw their list of the top 25 highest paid Bay Area athletes. Not too much to my surprise there is not one Oakland A’s player on the current roster that made the list. In fact, Eric Chavez was # 4 on the list [...]

Knicks Made A Huge Mistake Passing On Brandon Jennings

     With the Milwaukee Bucks next on the Knicks schedule, everyone will get the opportunity to make themselves familiar with point guard Brandon Jennings, if they are not already. Every time that the Knicks play Milwaukee I can’t help but wonder how things would be different if Donnie Walsh had taken Jennings in the 2009 NBA [...]

Cliff Lee: Setting the Record Straight

November 9, 2010 by craig.williams  
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I have encountered a lot of noise (relative to what you would expect) against the Yankees signing Cliff Lee to a long-term deal this off-season.  Let me say this once and for all: The Yankees need to sign Cliff Lee if they plan on contending for the World Series for the next 2-3 years.  After [...]