It has been just over a month since the Cardinals won the 2011 World Series and I, along with a lot of folks, already miss baseball very much! Now that the official MLB schedule is up, that means 2012 MLB game tickets are now available for sale! I can’t wait to get back to the stadium to watch my favorite players take the field, and I’m sure that’s the truth for a lot of us baseball fans. Take a look at the most popular series for the 2012 season so far:

>> Yankees @ Red Sox: April 20 – 22

>> Cubs @ Cardinals: April 13 – 15

>> Cardinals @ Marlins: April 4

>> Rays @ Red Sox: April 13 – 16

>> MLB Exhibition Yankees @ Marlins: April 1 – 2

>> White Sox @ Yankees: June 28 – July 1

These are just a few series that are sure to sell well, but a lot will be changing as the off-season progresses. Trades will be made and rosters will not be the same. Managers will leave and Minor leaguers will break through to the Majors. That’s the beauty of baseball and it can’t come soon enough!

I hope I did my math right, but the number in the title has some significance.  The Tigers sit at 45-41 right now and with six games left in the first half, they need just one win to finish going into the break with at least a .500 record.  Since Jim Leyland took over the [...]

DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers scored five unanswered runs as they overcame a 3-1 deficit to defeat the defending champion, San Francisco Giants in their final Interleague game of the season.  Magglio Ordonez’s two-RBI single in the seventh with two-outs ensured a Tigers win, 6-3. San Francisco is sending four pitchers to Phoenix for the [...]

NY Mets SS Jose Reyes underwent an MRI at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan Sunday morning(July 3rd) and the  test revealed he has a grade 1 strain(Least severe of all hamstring injuries) of his left hamstring. Manager Terry Collins told reporters post game that it is possible that his leadoff man will not [...]

Just when things started to look good for the 2011 New York Mets, Saturday July 2nd happened and SS Jose Reyes, the 2011 NL MVP, came up lame after trying to beat out an infield hit in the  1st and was pulled in the 2nd inning with tightness in his left hamstring.  The Mets leadoff [...]

SEATTLE — Foes met again this weekend as the San Diego Padres visited the Seattle Mariners to close out their season Interleague series.  The first game saw the Mariners continue their winning streak against San Diego, winning 6-0. Saturday evening though saw the Padres end their losing streak to Seattle, as they escaped with a [...]

You would expect a team that is 49-36(As of July 2nd) to have several players bound for the all star game July 12th in Arizona and your Atlanta Braves have 4 players headed to the contest. C Brian McCann(.311,14 home runs, 47 rbi) won the fan vote and is participating in his 6th(1st start) straight [...]

ANAHEIM — The Los Angeles Dodgers and Anaheim Angels met again, this time in Anaheim to close out their season series, and again, both clubs sent out their aces to battle one another. Angels starter, Jared Weaver, improved to 10-4 on the season with a one-run, four-hit effort, as he struck out eight to lower [...]

The Florida Marlins appear to have stemmed the tide with the hiring of Jack McKeon winning 5 of 11(Thru July 2nd) on a tough West coast inter league road trip. In a trek that features some great pitchers and players, Florida drew #1 aces from the  Angels (RH  Jered Weaver, 10-4,1.92) and Mariners( RH Felix [...]

DENVER — The Colorado Rockies have a lot to play for Sunday afternoon in their finale against the Kansas City Royals. They are obliged to follow Saturday’s performance which saw seven-runs come around in two-innings.  The news that Troy Tulowitzki was named to the All-Star Game as a reserve.  And the Rockies have a chance [...]

OAKLAND — The Arizona Diamondbacks have enjoyed the past 24-hours.  Chris Young began it by driving in all four-runs against the Oakland Athletics for their final Interleague series of the season, just falling a triple shy of the cycle. This morning it was announced that Justin Upton is the lone Diamondbacks representative at the moment [...]

The first week of the Davey Johnson ERA for the Washington Nationals is underway and the club continues to be competitive and fun to watch(42-41 as of July 2nd). Johnson, a former  world champion as both of a manager and player, believes in big innings(ala his manager in Baltimore, Earl Weaver), playing offense first, looking [...]

The 4 time defending National League East champion Philadelphia Phillies continue to win(52-31 as of July 1st) with their formula of dominant pitching and opportunistic hitting. The team does not rank higher than 17th(out of 30 ML teams) in any major offensive category: 17th in runs, 20th in batting average, 19th in on base and [...]

The term “ace” is thrown around way too much these days.  Of course this is my opinion but I don’t think an ace is a team’s number one pitcher.  While guys Luke Hochevar and Wandy Rodriguez are probably their team’s best pitchers and are good in their own right, I don’t consider them aces.  Aces [...]

It’s hard to even remember the Astros were in the World Series back in 2005.  Now they’re the worst team in baseball.  Sometimes it doesn’t take long to fall.  Throw in the ownership issues and this has been a rough year for Astros fans.  Right now they’re right around on pace to be the lone [...]

It wasn’t the best month for the A’s.  Early on they were playing .500 ball and were at least close to first.  Now they’re in last place and they’re four losses back of even reaching the Mariners who sit in third. Even worse, they dropped two of three to a pretty mediocre Marlins team. Scoring [...]

The Mariners are two games below .500 but in the AL West, .500 is good enough to stay in the mix.  They’re still in third place, but they’re just three and a half games back of the Rangers and two and a half back of the Angels.  One good series against a division opponent could [...]

It’s tough being in the best division in baseball.  The Jays would probably be competitive in just about every other division but they find themselves 9 1/2 games back of first place in the AL East.  They’re 13-18 against the East too so that doesn’t help.  Having to play over a third of your games [...]

The Royals are falling fast.  After a solid April they now find themselves in dead last.  Not only that, they have the worst record in the American League.  On April 19, they were 11-6. Since then they’ve gone 22-42.  That’s not good. Yesterday’s game was another road loss.  The Padres aren’t a good team but [...]

Well, here we are.  The ballots are in and now we have to wait until Saturday to find out who your 2011 All Star Game starters are.  We’ll still have the final poll player to deal with as well. All I know is I’d love to have All Star Game Tickets this year.  Would mind [...]

The Rangers had a nice lead but they’ve been playing .500 ball the past couple of weeks and the Angels have caught fire.  They did take two of three against Houston and playing them a couple of series these days is nice.  It’s also nice to have the interleague games going because that’s always an [...]

The Brewers had a three game lead but a three game losing streak then three straight wins by the Cardinals cost them their lead.  Of course those pesky Yankees were to blame and the Brewers were knocked around in two games and even the middle game which was closer wasn’t all that great.  It is [...]

The Atlanta Braves(45-35 as of June 28th) continue to play solid ball overall in 2011 and are about to receive a big shot in the arm- literally and figuratively- with the return RHSP Tommy Hanson(8-4,2.48, 89 strike outs in 83.1 innings)  Tuesday(June 28th)  at the Seattle Mariners.  Hanson experienced inflammation of the  rotator cuff in [...]

We’re close to the half way point in the season and while the Indians have had almost as bad of a run as they did a good run earlier in the season, they’re still hanging in there and they’re a game back of the first place Tigers.  They won their opener against the Diamondbacks 5-4 [...]

After a couple of mediocre months, the Yankees broke out in June and finished with a 22-10 record.  It wasn’t their best month of the season, but it was the month that kept them in the mix.  They still had taken over first place but they sat just two games back of the first place [...]

DETROIT — The finale of the rubber match between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the home team, Detroit Tigers, seemed as if it would be a close, tight game.  And it was, until Detroit unloaded for seven-runs in the eighth to win 8-3. Arizona starter, Joe Saunders was in complete control of this game, allowing four-hits [...]

CHICAGO — Maybe it was the travel to Chicago to make-up a postponed game that resulted in a Colorado Rockies loss to the Cubs.  Or maybe the offense many thought the Cubs had prior to Opening Day finally showed up. Nonetheless Chicago’s offensive threats, Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Pena each went deep twice as they [...]

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for two-runs in the bottom of the ninth to overcome a one-run deficit as they beat their cross-town rival, Anaheim Angels, to avoid a sweep.  The Dodgers won on Tony Gwynn’s walk-off single that capped of a three-for-five day at the plate. Both clubs put forth their [...]

We’re closing in on the half way point of the season and the Pirates are not only a game above .500, but they’re also just four games back of the first place Brewers and one game back of the second place Cardinals.  Those are some good teams and so far, the Pirates have played with [...]

The Red Sox are hanging in there but things are really interesting.  You’ve got the Yankees and Rays in a tight race where if you throw any of those three teams in a different division with their record, they’d be on top.  As it stands, the Red Sox sit in second place, but they’re just [...]