Ryan Michaud

Interleague Play

10:52 PM ET 06.26

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I do not like interleague play. I understand that baseball makes a lot of money off of interleague play, but that is mostly from fans of American League teams who are fascinated by watching pitchers hit. There are several reasons for my hatred towards this disgusting month long affair of ridiculousness. Scheduling is a huge issue in all of this. American League teams end up playing a National League team more often than they play other American League teams. For example this year the Boston Red Sox play the Philadelphia Phillies (6 games) more times than they play the Minnesota Twins (5…

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Milan Lucic's Suspension

11:02 PM ET 04.21

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Now I usually write about baseball, but a recent issue in hockey really grinded my gears and forced me to switch topics, at least for today. Milan Lucic recently was handed a one game suspension for a cross check to the face of Maxim Lapierre. In fact this wasn't even a cross check; Lucic's hand made all of the contact. Not too mention that Lapierre was the one who approached Lucic.With this suspension the league is sending an awful message to the players, the fans, and to a great young forward with no prior infractions: they will be very inconsistent with the penalties they hand out.…

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Curt Schilling

09:18 PM ET 03.23

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In November 2003 I was an eleven year-old Red Sox fan devestated by a twelve inning game seven loss to the New York Yankees in the ALCS. I had little knowledge of whom Curt Schilling was, but I had been told that with him the Sox would have the best rotation in the MLB. In less than a year Schill became one of my favorite players to play the game of baseball by doing something that nobody had been able to do over 86 years: win a World Series championship for the Boston Red Sox.Big Schill represents heroism at its finest. He was willing to put his career and his health on the line for the…

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