pedro martinez

The All-Star Game officially marks the point between the first and second half of the Major League Baseball season, otherwise known as, “when baseball goes from boring to interesting.” Sorry, but with a 162-game year, the opening couple months usually mean very little in the grand scheme of things (kind of like the first three quarters of most basketball games). Following the All-Star break though, the storylines in the MLB hit Lost-level intrigue as the true contenders start to emerge and teams vie for playoff spots.

OK, so Pujols fell short of pulling off the Home Run Derby victory in front of the St. Louis crowd.

Right off the bat: no Latinos in today’s blog (hey, we make up for the lack of Latin-ness with the Week in Review, tranquilo).   Nothing personal, just the LeBron-James-Jordan-Crawford-Nike-Dunk-Scandal features no persons of Spanish-speaking descent.  As a sports blogger, not writing about the LBJ-Getting-Posterized fiasco would be like Perez Hilton ignoring a “Brad Pitt Leaves Angelina Jolie; Moves in with George Clooney” story.  No choice, gotta write about it whether I like it or not.  Luckily, I find the whole situation endlessly fasc

Most Red Sox fans, Yankee fans, and pretty much baseball fans in general associate Manny Ramirez and Pedro Martinez.  The two Dominicanos spent four years together in Boston, and each played an integral role in breaking the Red Sox 85-season World Series “Curse.”  Seems kind of fitting then that on the day after talking about Man-Ram we turn our attention Petey.  Unlike Ramirez (gainfully employed by the Los Angeles Dodgers) Martinez needs a job.  Currently, the three-time Cy Young Award win

I’d like to talk about a couple things today, and Friday’s Week in Review just seems so far away, that I’m proposing a new segment called RBI or “Random Blog Ideas” (yes, I stretched for the cheesy sports acronym).

All right, people, time for part two of our preview on the Latin American teams competing in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. On Monday, I profiled the national teams from Venezuela, Panama, and Mexico and now we turn our eyes to the remaining Latin powerhouses (by the way, I bet any amount of money that in ‘09 a team from a Spanish-speaking country takes down the WBC–no disrespect to defending champs Japan, but we’re due).

Man, we need a pick-me-up. It’s been so depressing over here at the Scorecard lately. My fellow Sí TV bloggers get to write about fun stuff, and I’m stuck with drug scandals, criminal allegations, and people appearing before federal magistrates. Well, not anymore. Today we break the cycle and have a good ol’ time.