Year: 2008

Happy New Year to our readers. While Yankee fans exult over this free agent season, Boston fans aren’t exactly breaking…

With just one day to go before the start of the MLB Network (of which I plan to DVR for…

Links: How did this team win 12 games? Greg Cote says Pennington did more with less.  I strongly disagree. USA…

Jen Rizzotti likes to challenge her Hartford Hawks team every year and that includes an annual matchup with the No….

In what spells bad news for hockey fans, NBC Sports has announced that the best play-by-play man in the NHL,…

Photo by Cyrus Melchor The Angels and left-hander Brian Fuentes agreed to a two-year, $17.5 million contract. The contract includes…

College BasketballPittsburgh at Rutgers – Big East Network/ESPN Plus, 2 p.m.Wisconsin at Michigan – ESPN2, 2 p.m.St. John’s at Providence…

Hope everybody had a cool holiday season. I’m back in action, just in time to kick 2008 to the curb….

Larry Fitzgerald in the news for the wrong reasons. The Timberwolves were impressive in defeat. ESPN’s power rankings have been…….

It’s not often that a baseball blog turns five years old, but we did it. Back on December 31, 2003, I was still stinging from the Aaron Bleeping Boone Game and I had to vent somewhere. Five years later, look where we are. We’ve come a long way.

Of course, the readers (you!) and commenters (some of you) are the sole reason why we’re still blogging up a stream today. You are what makes this enjoyable.

Fire Brand would not exist if it wasn’t for the people reading this, so I’d like to take a bit of time and say: Thank you. Thank you for visiting. Thank you for giving me the privilege of being read and discussed.

I’ve played dizzy baseball before, but never drunk dizzy baseball. From the looks of it, you pour beer down the…

So here we are, the end of the year. As the Onion reported, Baby New Year 2008 has been abandoned…

Derek Lowe will not be returning to the Boston Red Sox. The Mets have offered him a 3-year deal and…

Just want to say Happy New Years, hope everybody won’t be to hungover for the game tomorrow at 11 AM….

2008 is going out with…a cactus? Sure, why not. After some nice, unseasonably warm temperature right after Christmas, its snowing…

Thanks to the largess of CHFF, I’ve spent most of the day dealing with comments from psychos who couldn’t be…

It’s game day for the UConn Huskies women’s basketball team on this snowy New Year’s eve morning as they will…

Most of the time when people do their year-end remebrances, they have a decent amount of positive things to write…

Let’s consider this the Outback special…here are the 5 keys to a gamecock win vs Iowa in Tampa – 1….

Concluding our series on the fourth outfielder today is Eric Byrnes, the erstwhile outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Unlike the first two candidates, Byrnes is not a free agent, but Arizona has given indications he would be available for a team willing to take his contract. Let’s take a look at Byrnes as a fourth outfielder candidate. First off, why would an up and rising team like Arizona want to unload a 32 year old outfielder who can play all three positions and just two years ago finished 11th in MVP voting? Clearly, it’s because the Diamondbacks are run by the United States Congress.

I would have to say out of all the new contracts doled out by Jerry Jones, the biggest heist second…

Yes, this is a New York Giants Blog, but it is not every day that your co-tenant is out there…

I’m sure most of you are just killing time today waiting for the third part of our series on the fourth outfielders, right? Or you’ve already started drinking in the new year. Either way, in case you haven’t seen it yet, the Boston Globe has put together a cool feature on the improvements to Fenway Park since John Henry, et al purchased the club in 2002. Check out the link after the jump.

Musings of a Wolves Fan (12.30.08)   vs. Dallas Mavericks       Season Record: 6-25 Wolves 100 – Dallas…

Chad Hartman/KFAN had Britt Robson on air with him yesterday afternoon. Click here to listen to the interview. Some of…

The Brent Barry Ticket Experiment comes to Minneapolis. (Click here to read more about Barry’s attempt to provide two tickets…

Wolves record: 6-25 Box Score Eddie Sefko/Dallas Morning News game recap Jeff Caplan/Star-Telegram game recap From Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune: Never…

Amalie Benjamin of The Boston Globe wrote a nice piece on Blair Henry, the Northern California and Nevada scout for…