Sully Baseball

Some teams find themselves in flux between identity shifts. I illustrate that by shaving my beard.

SUNDAY REQUEST - @MichaelT162 and I do not see eye to eye on the WBC. No matter how cool the atmosphere is in the games, they will not be meaningful if the pitchers aren't giving 100%.

THE TEAMS THAT SHOULD HAVE WON: The 1993 Braves had the momentum, the pennant chase, the build up and the perfect combination of beloved players. They should have been the team to win it all, not the 1995 team.

The vastness of the cosmos is helping me deal with the inevitability of the Red Sox losing David Price for the season.

Baseball is meant to be a diversion or a distraction from every day life. But often the players, the key distractors, have real life interfere with their production on the field. Jake Peavy, dealing with a prolonged divorce is the latest example of reality colliding with fantasy.

The NL East will be won by the team that doesn't break down. Meanwhile new Washington reliever Joe Blanton has turned his nice career around and could become a closer option.

Mike Trout might never be universally recognized and that MAY just be a product of the current way we consume culture. Meanwhile Mike Scioscia might have outstayed his welcome.

From the World Series to the election to the Oscars, nothing seems predictable anymore... and a certain amount of predictability is critical for baseball.

SUNDAY REQUEST - @thestartingbloc asks about Max Scherzer's chances of making the Hall of Fame.

THE TEAMS THAT SHOULD HAVE WON: The first part of a series on the podcast that I will do for the next 31 Saturdays. I look at the teams that if they had won the World Series, they would have done so under the best circumstances and with the best collection of players. First team I cover are my Red Sox and I look at the 1978 squad.

A lot of people don't like Field of Dreams. I get it. I still love it and the reasons why I do reflect that what we love and what we consume, including baseball, do not exist in a vacuum.

Giving my thoughts to the only Best Picture Oscar nominee that has any connection to baseball: Fences.

I listed my thoughts on the greatest players in each franchise's history. I realized that Francisco Lindor has the outside chance to become the greatest player in Cleveland Indians history. It is there for the taking.

The Cubs won it all last year. Perhaps you heard. But let's savor how infrequently a team wins in the year they are SUPPOSED to win!

It is Presidents Day. Will we ever have a baseball player President? Why not?

SUNDAY REQUEST - On Twitter, I posted YouTube clips with the players I thought were the best of all time for each franchise. Some readers, like @bfb242 disagreed with me.

The card of the day for Sully Baseball was a Mark Davis Topps Card. I bet you do not know this, but he is a Cy Young winner once traded for a Hall of Famer and another time dealt for an MVP. I am POSITIVE you didn't know that.

Former Cleveland Indians All Star reliever Sid Monge joins the podcast today. We talked about his days with the Tribe and the Tigers, his 30 years of coaching and what other sports he could have mastered.

6 days ago, I thought the Marlins were about to get a normal owner. Now I have to say the sentences "Jeffrey Loria might become ambassador to France" and "Trump' son in law might face conflicts of interest with purchasing the Marlins."

Alex Reyes looks like he is going to have Tommy John surgery. These Tommy John surgeries are driving me crazy. Perhaps this is a case for good, clean PEDs.