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MLB Pennant Report

October 5, 2015 by Jason Fisher Leave a Comment

Welcome to the WILDCARD EDITION, of the MLB pennant report. The regular season has wrapped with some exciting division chases, such as the Texas Rangers coming out of nowhere to claim the American League Western Division title from the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In the National League, the Washington Nationals, at one time […]

Filed Under: MLB, Sports Betting

Are some sports mascots racist?

August 30, 2015 by Jason Fisher Leave a Comment

I have already written my other article about the NFL’s Washington football franchise. Here though we will give an honest appraisal of other professional sports teams in the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, and NCAA teams, taking into account that although we are in a very diverse country, our sports teams seem to predominately prefer to nearly exclusively use Indigenous Americans as mascots for […]

Filed Under: General, MLB, NFL, Racism Tagged With: MLB, national coalition against racism in sports and the media, NCAA, NFL, racism, sports

MLB Chicago Cubs are ROARING

August 15, 2015 by Jason Fisher 1 Comment

While I have marveled at additions by the, MLB’s, Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets, I must credit the Chicago Cubs organization for the “less is more” approach, by their top executive, Theo Epstein. In other words they didn’t give up future talent to grab a veteran and take on salary. The Cubs have stuck with the calm […]

Filed Under: MLB, Sports Betting Tagged With: Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Cubs, Kris Bryant, Major Leage Basbeall, MLB, Sports betting

MLB Pennant Race Report

August 8, 2015 by Jason Fisher Leave a Comment

Opening Image is courtesy of (pic.twitter.com/IQvsLuHWfY) #Mets First, I admit I was WRONG on the American League of the MLB, to count the playoff teams before they hatch in October. The Toronto Blue Jays have come into Yankee stadium and they are smacking the cover off the ball. The Toronto Blue Jays have been scorching since the trade […]

Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: David Price, New York Mets, Toronto Blue Jays, Yeonis Cespedes

MLB Trade Deadline Winners & Losers

August 4, 2015 by Joel Goldschmidt 3 Comments

(feature image via: Peter Llewellyn/USA TODAY Sports) The non-waiver trade deadline has come and gone and the balance of power has certainly shifted, especially in the American League. We will see more moves before the end of August, but it is highly unlikely that any will be as big as what we saw last week. Some […]

Filed Under: General, MLB Tagged With: Ben Zobrist, Carlos Gomez, Cincinnati Reds, David Price, Detroit TIgers, Houston Astros, Johnny Cueto, Jose Altuve, Kansas City Royals, Latroy Hawkins, Mark Lowe, New York Mets, Oakland A's, Scott Kazmir, Toronto Blue Jays, Troy Tulowitski, Yeonis Cespedes

MLB Trade Deadline Update

July 28, 2015 by Joel Goldschmidt Leave a Comment

(Image Courtesy of Harry How/Getty Images) A couple of big trades went down since my preview article for the upcoming trade deadline when Johnny Cueto was sent to Kansas City and Troy Tulowitzki was surprisingly sent to Toronto. Those won’t be the last big name players to change uniforms this week, nor will it be the […]

Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: Johnny Cueto trade, Jose Reyes trade, LaTroy Hawkins trade, Troy Tulowitzki trade

MLB Trade Deadline Special

July 26, 2015 by Joel Goldschmidt 1 Comment

The first of the bigger names officially came off the market when the Astros acquired pitcher Scott Kazmir from the A’s this week. It was a classic trade deadline deal where the A’s knew Kazmir would not return to Oakland next season when he is a free agent, so they wanted to get something in […]

Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: Bench CC Sabathia, Carlos Gomez, Johnny Cueto, Michael Morse, MLB Trade Deadline, Scott Kazmir, Troy Tulowitzki

MLB Pennant Race report

July 25, 2015 by Jason Fisher 3 Comments

(Top image is courtesy of Anthony Gruppuso-USA Today Sports ) I know there is a lot of baseball to still be played, but let’s not kid ourselves, in the American League, there are very few contenders left. Some years a bunch of teams are still in it, but this year it feels like the standings could likely […]

Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: Alex Rodriguez, Boston Red Sox, Bryce Harper, Chicago Cubs, Hollywood, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, MLB, New York Mets, New York Yankees, October baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates, Saint Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Toronto Bluejays, Washington Nationals, World Series

Rob’s Rants & Raves: Vol. 3 “Summertime”

July 18, 2015 by Robert Moreno Leave a Comment

Summer, summer, summertime. Suns out guns out, ice cold drinks, Fresh Prince & Jazzy Jeff on the boom box blastin’…lemonade stands going up? I ran out of summer analogies. Point is it’s summer, mid July, and it’s time for me to rant and rave about stuff. NBA season has come to an end. MLB is […]

Filed Under: MLB, MMA Tagged With: Brock Lesnar, Demaryius Thomas and Dez Bryant contract, Fantasy Football team name, Frank Mir, Ronda Rousey, Seth Rollins, Todd Duffee, Urijah Faber vs Conor McGregor

MLB Preview Revisited

July 15, 2015 by Joel Goldschmidt Leave a Comment

(Image coutesy of Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports) Here we are at the All Star Break, so this seems like a good time to take a look around the Majors to see who is doing better than expected, worse than expected and as expected. Before the season started, I wrote a series of in depth articles on […]

Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: Albert Pujols, Baseball, Bryce Harper, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Dallas Keuchal, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball Preview, Max Scherzer, Michael Wacha, Mike Trout, MLB, MLB Prediction, MVP Prediction, Ney York Yankees, NL Central Prediction, NL East Prediction, NL West Prediction, Oakland A's, Paul Goldschmidt, Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Washington Nationals, Zach Grienke

Cardinals Astros cyber hacking scandal, Aaron Sorkin, and the greatest sports movie ever made

July 10, 2015 by Joshua Graves 1 Comment

Top Image courtesy of (www.livingpuyallup.com) Dear Aaron Sorkin, please make the Astros Cardinals cyber-hacking scandal into the greatest sports movie of all time, pleaseeeeeeeeeeee. It’s odd to me that nobody’s discussing the most fascinating sports scandal of the summer (I’m a Cubs fan so maybe I’m biased). It broke in late June that the St. […]

Filed Under: General, MLB, Sports Movies Tagged With: Aaron Sorkin, Analytics, Baseball scouting and player development, Chris Correa, Houston Astros, Jeff Luhnow, Moneyball, Movies, Saint Louis Cardinals Computer hackers, Wolf of Wall street

Poor Officiating Sports Rankings Part 2

July 2, 2015 by Jason Fisher Leave a Comment

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Above Image (courtesy of www.amishbabymachine.com) As I mentioned back in April, at OTBR we are going to chart through the year the performance of major sports in the world (mostly North American) to see who will win the 2015 brass whistle for poor officiating. After all, sometimes the REFS -DO MAKE YOUR TEAM LOSE. If you are not […]

Filed Under: Boxing, General, MLB, MMA, NBA, NCAA Basketball, NCAA Football, NFL, Sports Betting, UFC, World Cup Soccer Tagged With: Compubox, Controversial referees, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Jessie Vargas, Kenny Bayless, Las Vegas, Manny Pacquiao, NBA, NCAA Basketball, NFL, Pro Boxing, Roger Goodell, Sports betting, Timothy Bradley, Tom Brady

Bay area sports are the Best

June 21, 2015 by Joel Goldschmidt Leave a Comment

Why the Bay Area is the best place to be a fan right now             Let me preface this article with a disclaimer: I’m a loyal fan of most of the teams in the Bay Area. My blood bleeds black and orange with the San Francisco Giants, I grew up watching Joe Montana and then Steve Young throw […]

Filed Under: General, MLB, NBA, NCAA Basketball, NCAA Football, NFL, NHL Tagged With: Al Davis, Billy Beane, Buster Posey, California Golden Bears, Golden State Warriors, Head Coach David Shaw, Jim Harbaugh, Joe Montana, Madison Bumgarner, NBA Finals, New York Giants, New York Jets, Oakland A's, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants, San Jose Earthquakes, San Jose Sharks, St. Louis Cardinals, Stanford Cardinal, Stephen Curry, Super Bowl

Sports Thoughts 6-5-15

June 5, 2015 by Jason Fisher Leave a Comment

(Featured image courtesy of Reuters) A whole lot happening in the sport’s world and that makes people like us happy. ************************************************************************** WOMEN’S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2015 The last few times our ladies (Team USA) have fallen short, but something tells me this time, we won’t let the cup slip away. This time, Alex Morgan, Sydney Leroux, […]

Filed Under: General, MLB, NBA, NHL, World Cup Soccer Tagged With: Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, Chicago Blackhawks, Chrsiten Press, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Cavaliers, Coery Crawford, Golden State Warriors, Houston Astros, Jonathan Toews, Kansas City Royals, Lebron james, Major Leage Basbeall, MLB, NBA Finals, New York Yankees, Saint Louis Cardinals, Stanley Cup, Steph Curry, Stephen A. Smith, Steven Stamkos, Sydney Leroux, Tamp Bay Lightning, Team USA, World Cup Soccer

Show A-Rod the Money

May 13, 2015 by Mike Jacobs Leave a Comment

(Image courtesy of Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports) Yankees versus Alex Rodriguez.  What are the chances that we actually get to see a player sue his team, WHILE he is still on the team?? A-Rod could be the first in my memory. Let’s set the stage: A-Rod juices just like everybody else when the league looks the […]

Filed Under: MLB Tagged With: 660 Home Run, A-Rod, A-Rod Bonus, Alex Rodriguez, Tie Willie Mays

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