This wasn’t supposed to happen. Between the grand “everything must go” yard sale of its 2011 offseason haul at the trade deadline last August to repeated injuries and two embarrassing manager firings in two years, it seemed the only thing of any dignity left standing for Boston was the Green Monster. But...

In the spirit of crowning the king way too early (which Rev absolutely hates by the way), this is the first entry in a season-long series of me jumping to conclusions on purpose. However, it’s all in the sake of gauging the game for where it is at the moment, and what a first month of baseball it’s...

There was something ironic about the way this column started. Allow me to share it with you. In writing the first 100 words of why nothing strikes me as important enough to write about, my keystrokes deleted my work. It was accidental, but likely a message from the universe. Perhaps everything is important...

Usually when a baseball brawl breaks out, it’s the ultimate “you better get him” fight, where there’s a lot of jumping over shoulders, pointing and yelling. Very rarely is there an actual moment where something happens and you think, “Damn, it just got real.” The infamous Pedro Martinez-Don...

For some of you, your Saturday started with the news that one of the 10 greatest basketball players of all-time had his achilles tendon cry “uncle” while Los Angeles Lakers fans began to cry tears in their Kobe Systems. For a few more of you, your weekend may have ended with the news that...

For most of Major League Baseball, the 2013 season got underway Monday. However, at the start of the MLB road, the story is just getting started, and it’s assured to be as wide open of a year as we’ve seen in a while … yet not in the ways you’d expect. As the resident TSFJ baseball...

We are on the verge of the breaking of the sports spring, because next Monday is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. While there’s no shortage of MLB season previews, predictions and prognosis’ (we’ll actually have our version of one here on Monday), it’s time to properly...

America has been passed up in its original game, again. In the span of two games, Team USA was bounced from the World Baseball Classic in a resounding but quiet manner. So for the third time in three tournaments, the Americans are sent home in a premature fashion, yet what happens behind it is the true...

My yard was everything to me growing up. It was my Madison Square Garden, where I dreamed of being “Like Mike” and on rare occasions nailed the game-winning bucket in games of two-on-two. My grandma would occasionally act as the human scoreboard, even counting down the waning seconds, never...

Remember back in the day (in 2005), when Shawn Carter of Brooklyn, New York, said he was coming back to do one last album? To leave his everlasting mark on the game that he truly shaped in his own fashion like nobody else before, before he walked off into the sunset? This was the Black Album, and regardless...

The next three weeks of spring baseball will be different than it is in most years. Instead of the usual mixture of spring warm-up games scattered through Florida and Arizona, the World Baseball Classic takes the sport out of team allegiance and wraps some of the best players in the world in their flags...

(Ed’s Note: To catch up on the top 100 players in baseball breakout, here’s the links. 100-76, 75-51, 50-26 and 25-11) It’s tough to do an intro to the very best of the game and just why they are, so I won’t bother. The credentials on the best of the top 100 players in baseball are below...