Tag Archives: Rick Porcello

Baseball Violence Rears its Ugly Head (UPDATED)

For those of you who missed it, I wrote a piece a few weeks ago detailing why baseball is definitely a contact sport.  Well my point then still stands that, although baseball is violent less often than in other sports, its level of violence is often spectacular and has major consequences.  Well, the baseball gods [...]

Rick Porcello: Boy, Man or BEAST?

As I’m sure you’ve seen or heard, Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello body slammed Kevin Youkilis in the second inning of Tuesday night’s game in Boston.
I didn’t see it as it happened— I was listening to my Gameday Audio. Naturally, MLB.com has conveniently avoided posting it as a game highlight on their web site. I [...]