By Roger Wallenstein

T.S. Eliot got it wrong. April is not the cruelest month. September is.
If there was any doubt, it was erased when Miguel Cabrera’s long ninth-inning drive settled well up into the left-field stands at a drenched Comerica Park on Saturday evening.
How could this possibly happen? The Sox held an 8-1 lead after the Tigers and the umpires helped our athletes score five times in the fourth inning – three coming on Alexi Ramirez’ home run – and twice more on back-to-back homers by Alejandro De Aza and Brent Morel in the fifth.

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Posted on September 5, 2011

By Mike Luce

Before we kick off the 2011 season, we want to bring you up to speed on some headlines and errata:
* Update: ESPN made it official on Wednesday – integrity has been routed by shameless money-grubbing. The Worldwide Leader debuted the 2011 version of the weekly “Top 25 Preview” page including one odd outlier: The Texas Longhorns (unranked in the AP Poll) vs. The Rice Owls. When Awful Announcing took a screenshot and publicly called out ESPN, the game quickly disappeared.
Why all the hubbub?
ESPN uses the AP Poll when listing the weekly matchups – and Texas isn’t ranked in the AP. The network conveniently forgot and used the Coaches Poll rank instead – but only for the Texas game. Earlier this week, we trashed ESPN for reporting bias in favor of the major football powers, but we didn’t think it would get this bad.

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Posted on September 1, 2011

By Carl Mohrbacher

Is the first name of the Braves third baseman really Chipper?
-Mallory, Archertown NJ
It is not.
He got the nickname during a short stint as the voice of Theodore the Chipmunk in 1990.
Does Vegas accept bets on the Sausage Race at Miller Park?
-Randy, Elgin IL
Probably. I’d put my money on the chorizo. That guy is muy rapido.
As a trivia side note, Put My Money On The Chorizo was the last movie Joey Silvera appeared in before retiring from the adult film industry.

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Posted on September 1, 2011