Baseball

Watching highlights of new Chicago Cub centerfielder Marlon Byrd running the bases makes me wonder if the Cubs are trying out for “The Biggest Loser.”

If you have ever had your girlfriend ask you, “Honey, does my butt look big in these jeans,” you know where I’m coming from. We all know what the politically correct answer is, but boy does Marlon Byrd look big in his baseball pants.

I love January, it's a start to a new year or in this case a new decade and it's the start of a new class for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.

The most sacred place in all of baseball is Cooperstown, every one wants to be there but only the best of the best are allowed in.

This years ballot will consist of fifteen new names along with the eleven that got over 5% of the vote last year.

I, like every baseball fan, wish I had the ability to vote, but I don't, so I can't vote for my ten guys, but I can make a slideshow of them.

I will rank from the least deserving (10) to the most (1).<

My writing has recently been somewhat derogatory toward the Nationals pitching staff.

Rich Fox is an Orioles fan who remembers when the Orioles were the Yankees' patsies, but even in those days, the Orioles had their moments.

Rich takes great joy in recalling how Hoyt Wilhelm no-hit the the "arrogants" from New York on September 20, 1958.

It wasn't until June 11, 2003, that the Yankees again suffered the humiliation of being no-hit.

There were 69 starting pitchers from the 1960s who pitched in at least 200 games.

If a player does not appear on the list of the 69 eligible players list, then they either didn’t reach 200 games or I consider them a pitcher from the 1950s or the 1970s.