Why is the AL Better Than The NL?

Posted on July 1, 2008 by fetch

In the world of baseball, few things are certain. If the St. Louis Cardinals can win 84 games in 2007, and then win the World Series, obviously anything can happen. Except, it seems, the National League being better than the American League. But, here at MLJ, we believe it’s not simple enough to just say [...]

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Quality Start: One More Interleague Game To Go

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Hef

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is a goddamn historic day in baseball today.  Today is the official halfway point of the season and it is marked by the ending of interleague play.  That’s right, after today the only interleague matchups will be the World Series and any necessary makeups.  And yes, I know, I wrote a [...]

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Under the Lights: Fake Plastic Music

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Hef

What’s up party people?  I won’t be around tonight because I get to experience fake glory in a fake Rock Band at a real party.  Pick up your jaws off the floor and try to contain your jealousy, it’s embarrassing.  So yeah, you’ll just have to talk to some other poor bastard who has nothing [...]

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Under the Lights: When Will Our Long National League Nightmare End

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Hef

See what I did there?  Gerald Ford quotes are awesome.  Especially when I add a word and make it about baseball.  You people really should be paying me money to entertain you or I’ll just take the funny and go home.  Seriously, I could be spending more time making my family laugh instead of giving [...]

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In Defense of Interleague Play

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Hef

Baseball is a game of adjustments.  A pitcher knows that a hitter likes a pitch to be inside about belt high, so he throws it low and away.  A hitter responds by either laying off the pitches he can’t handle, or he learns how to hit those pitches.  Soon the pitcher is throwing inside again [...]

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Quality Start: Interleague Resumes

Posted on June 14, 2008 by Hef

Interleague play has resumed and the AL won the night last night with victories in 9 of the 14 games played between the two leagues. Then again the AL also had home field advantage in 8 games compared to 6 by the NL. So I’ll call it a wash for now. Lively [...]

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Quality Start: Hooray for Unbalanced Scheduling!

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Hef

So the first round of interleague play is in the books and I can’t really say that the debate over which league is better has yet been solved. For the record, the AL won the weekend 22-19 thanks to sweeps by the Red Sox and the White Sox (over the Brewers and Giants respectively). [...]

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