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Fox News and The New York Daily News are reporting that yesterday afternoon Jered Weaver and Matt Palmer of the L.A. Angels witnessed a 39-year-old man leap to his death from the top of Le Parker Meridien Hotel on 56th Street in midtown. Both players are said to be shaken by the event.  Weaver would not talk to the Daily News reporter after the incident. Palmer, however, spoke briefly and told ...

After beating the Florida Marlins 10-8 in 11 innings, the 2010 edition of the Cincinnati Reds could rightly be called the "Cardiac Reds." It is hard for me to watch the games in their entirety because it makes me feel like I am going to have another stroke. But it is like a train wreck—you can't turn away. You just can't. The Reds have won all five ...

Here’s a look at some unheralded players who played well yesterday.   Scott Podsednik, Kansas City Royals Pods is off to a great start. He went 2-for-4 to raise his average to .452. He also collected his sixth SB.   Jose Guillen, Kansas City Royals Guillen smacked another HR, his fourth, as he went 2-for-4 with two runs to improve to .313 on the year.   Brian Bannister, Kansas City Royals Bannister pitched another solid game (6.1 IP, two ...

The New York Yankees started the season with two road series against their biggest rivals in the American League East. They won both series, after dropping the first game in each series, and opened at home yesterday with a 4-2 record. Brett Gardner was key in some of the Yankee wins in this first road trip of the year. But in the finale Sunday afternoon in Tampa Bay, Gardner failed to get on base ...

Is that Mariano Rivera? Why on earth would he and Bill Buckner be mentioned in the same article? Having just finished Mike Vaccaro's deftly crafted history of "The First Fall Classic," I was inspired to revisit some of the most painful moments in baseball history—painful for the losers that is. Rivera's slip is less remembered than Buckner's or Bartman's, but the greatest closer of all time nonetheless deserves his place among the ...

Look, the Oakland Athletics can't get half the number of fans to create one-quarter the amount of buzz that the San Francisco Giants get in the Bay Area. If the A's could move to San Jose, to a new stadium, the thousands upon thousands of Giants fans in that city wouldn't just flock to the American League team. Fans aren't that fickle. I mean, look at the 7,000 loyal A's fans ...

The baseball season is 162 games long, so some losses just have to be written off and filed away in a folder tagged "Stuff Happens." The San Francisco Giants' 6-5 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday wasn't one of those games. Manager Bruce Bochy and his willingness to go by the book cost the Giants the game. Oh, it should be a throw-away loss on a random Tuesday night in April ...

He is known as "the other guy." That's what most fans refer to him as when they talk about the Matt Holliday trade that has turned out to be a lopsided deal in the Colorado Rockies' favor. The conversation generally goes a little like this: "Who did the Rockies get for Matt Holliday?" Answer: "Huston Street and Carlos Gonzalez...oh, and some other guy..." That "other guy" happens to be Greg Smith, and after ...

After a two-day break, Fantasy Baseball Insiders Tonight is back with everything you need to know from Tuesday night’s action. Tonight, we’re featuring the Mets and Rockies at Coors. Game No. 10 – New York Mets vs. Colorado Rockies In an extremely lopsided game, David Wright was the lone bright spot for the Mets. New York’s third baseman reached base four times (two hits, two walks) and hit a solo HR to ...

  Thankfully I was at work and unable to watch the Royals' pen squander yet another lead.  The only thing we fans once gave the braintrust at Treyton Millman Incorporated credit for is now the biggest problem with the team and it's debilitating.  Another day, another blown save. The Royals managed to wrest defeat from the jaws of victory, undercutting what Brian Bannister did over ...