The Core Junction

The one thing that I know all too well from being a fan of the Toronto Blue Jays is the concept of mediocrity. It seems that far too often in recent years, my Jays have been around a .500 baseball club. What this ends up meaning, especially given the fact that there are two evil [...]

On the brink of the 2008-2009 season the St. Louis Cardinals enter with as many questions unanswered as when they concluded last season.
Saying goodbye to St. Louis this off season was the architect of the Cardinals stellar teams of the 1990’s and 2000’s, GM Walt Jocketty, Jocketty was fired by the team, although still adored [...]

Before I write anything here, I’d like to make one thing very clear to my audience: I don’t want to talk about last season.
I really, REALLY don’t want to talk about last season.
In my mind, last year was a fluke. It was a sham. It was an aberration, a freak example of Murphy’s [...]

It has been another long, hard offseason for fans of the Oakland Athletics. Only one year removed from reaching the American League Championship Series in 2006, the 2007 squad experienced their first losing season of Billy Beane’s tenure as General Manager, barely finishing above the cellar in the AL West.
With the A’s division rivals drastically [...]

It has been seven long seasons since the Yankees have been declared champions of the world. The seven seasons is the third-longest gap between Yankees’ World Series championships in 85 years. Fortunately, this year is the year that the most successful franchise in professional sports will retake its rightful place atop the baseball world.
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2008 marks the 15th season since the glory days of Toronto baseball came to an end. While the Jays have been making great strides each year since General Manager J.P. Ricciardi took over for the 2002 season, the team has come up short of making it to the postseason each of these years. The Jays, [...]