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Good Bye, See Ya In Monument Park: A Yankees Fan on Andy Pettitte's Retirement
"Dear fellow Yankee fan, Man up. It's Andy Pettitte after a loss. He's going to be completely out of gas, and find a way to hold them to two runs anyway." Now let me provide some context for the following quote...
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A Rant From a Yankees Fan
I've learned that the New York Yankees spoiled me at an early age. I was just shy of 11 years old when I saw the Yankees win their 26th World Series in 2000, their fourth in five years. Losing I feel is what molds us as sports fans...
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MC's Week Eight NFL Picks
Last week was a disappointing one for my picks. I talked myself out of picking the Bengals and the Cardinals only to regret that in a big way. I also thought I was being oh smart and calling a Saints loss...
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A Rude Awakening In The Bronx: Lee Edges Sabathia In Phillies Game One Win
It was pitted as the battle of the former Indians aces and they did not disappoint. CC Sabathia was "off his game" Wednesday night going seven innings and giving up four hits and three walks...
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MC's NFL Power Rankings After Week Seven
Week Seven was a great week of football in the NFL. Is there a scenario in which I wouldn't have said it was great? What if I started a power rankings article by saying, "What a bad ...
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The Script Resurfaces: New York Yankees Head to the World Series
"...hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."- Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption) I'd be lying if I told you I expected this...
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MC's Week Seven NFL Picks
"Not only are the Raiders terrible, but they look uninterested. If the Eagles win by 17 or less in this one my head will explode, that's not a bluff either. My head really will explode, so don't let me down Philly...
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MC's NFL Power Rankings After Week Six
Every week that goes by during the NFL season we learn more about each team, I think. The Broncos were a team that got lucky against the Bengals and then merely just beat two bad teams; now they seem primed to get a first round bye...
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MC's Week Six NFL Picks
Last week was a solid one for me, 10-4. I'm kicking myself still for picking against the Broncos for the 3rd time now this, bewildered at the stink-bomb the 49ers laid against the Falcons at home, and in awe of the wildcat running wild against the Jets..
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MC's NFL Power Rankings After Week Five
After the flu I am back with updated power rankings after an exciting Week Five in the NFL. I did update the rankings after Week Four but didn't write brief summaries for each team so if you're looking at the previous rankings, they indeed are updated...
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MC's Week Five NFL Picks
I did not get a chance to write my Week Four picks on Bleacher Report last week. You will just have to trust me when I say that I went 14-0. You don't believe me? OK, 13-1...No it was 11-3 actually and you can't bully me into saying any less...
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MC's Week Three NFL Power Rankings
After watching five of the top six teams in the rankings go down hard, all of the new top six survived this time. As of now, there are still seven remaining NFL teams looking to knock on Mercury ...
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MC's Week Three NFL Picks
I am proud to have called the Jets victory over the Patriots but overall I did not fare as well Week Two as I anticipated, going 10-6. Tomorrow's another week... Redskins (1-1) at Lions (0-2) Everyone seems to like the Lions this week...
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MC's NFL Power Rankings After Week Two
To say that there were some radical changes made to the Power Rankings would be an understatement. Five of the top six teams lost Sunday, and the other needed a last second field goal to win...
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The Day the New York Jets Punched the Bully in the Mouth
"Rex Ryan has the defense heading in the right direction but their starting QB will not only be a rookie but one that started only 16 games in college...
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MC's Week Two NFL Picks
Alright so my chances of 256-0 are officially over but you know what can happen? 252-4 can happen! I ended up going 12-4 on my picks, senselessly changing my mind to the Redskins over the Giants as I was writing my article...
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MC's NFL Power Rankings After Week 1
It was a very interesting Week 1 in the NFL, though I would probably saying that no matter what happened...Unless of course a massive tornado took down every stadium resulting in every game being cancelled, then I surely would have been disappointed...
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The Dallas Cowboys' Top 10 Most Likely Scenarios to End Their Season
Nobody is more excited than me for the return of America's new pastime in the form of the National Football League. There are many storylines and many reasons to be excited, Michael Vick is ...
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MC's Week One NFL Picks
I find myself forced to Tivo the Thursday Night Game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tennessee Titans due to work, but don't think I'm missing a second of it when I get home. The return of the NFL makes me look like Cuba Gooding Jr...
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MC's NFL Power Rankings Pre-Week 1
I have to admit I am still a little sore after that Dallas/Philadelphia, game but football is upon us and you can't keep a football addict down forever. College football is nice, but quite frankly, the pros and a playoff system are nice...
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Sugar: Small but Sweet, an Excellent Non-Traditional Baseball Movie
19-year-old Dominican born and raised, Miguel "Sugar" Santos had just pitched his first game for the fictional Kansas City Knights at Spring Training in Phoenix, Ari., and along with that received his first pay check for $502...
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Yanks For the Memories: Buehrle Outing Recalls Images of Cone's 10 Years Earlier
While I was watching William Hurt fall for a young woman working at a school for the deaf in "Children of a Lesser God," Chicago White Sox starting pitcher Mark Buehrle was achieving greatness...
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The 10 Best Dream Guest Voicemail Messages, Pt. 2
After the surprising positive reception for my original list and the several requests for me to do a second part, here it is! Here is a link for the previous article- http://bleacherreport...
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But Can Kobe Win Without Jack? (HUMOR)
Well, the scumbag Kobe Bryant won much to America's dismay. A sign of how strange and how unfair life is. The Rockets had more heart, the Nuggets were in my opinion more talented and played with ...
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The 10 Best Dream Guest Voicemail Messages
About two months, a man going by the name Barnz from Fayettesville, Arkansas sent an email to ESPN writer Bill Simmons about an encounter with Academy Award winning Actor Morgan Freeman...