Last week, the Kansas City Royals snapped a 30-year championship drought, topping the New York Mets four games to one in the World Series, capping off a most sublimely unpredictable…
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PTBPR: September MLB Power Rankings
Hello, Place to Be Baseball Fans! Welcome to the latest MLB Power Rankings. Sorry for a slight delay in getting this edition out, but I had a fairly significant relocation…
PTBPR: Midseason 2015 MLB Power Rankings
Welcome to the Place to Be Nation Mid-Season MLB Power Rankings! We’ve had quite the first half to the 2015 MLB season, with a ton of great performances (Bryce Harper*,…
PTBN’s Mid-May MLB Power Rankings
We’re just over a month into the 2015 baseball season, and it’s already had its fair share of the amazement, wonder, excitement, anger, frustration, shock, stupidity, and sheer craziness that…
2015 National League West Preview
Welcome to the sixth and final MLB season preview for Place to be Nation. Today we’ll be checking out the National League West. The NL East, NL Central, AL East,…
20 Years Ago: The 1994 MLB Players’ Strike
Twenty years ago, Major League Baseball suffered the longest work stoppage in its history. The 1994 players’ strike was brought about because of a long-standing acrimony between players and owners,…
PTBPR : MLB Power Rankings August 2014
Welcome to the Place to Be Nation’s MLB Power Rankings! My apologies for going over a month between these, but real-life got a little hectic for a while there. I’ve…
Celebrating Timmy
No-hitters are weird. They can be thrown by one person. Or several. They can be thrown against dynamic, record-setting offenses. Or against schmucks that more closely resemble a Triple-A squad.…
In Memoriam: Tony Gwynn 1960-2014
In 1997, two of the greatest artists of all time got together for a conversation about their passion and their profession when Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn sat down to…
The Steve Corino Show Episode 7 – C.W. Anderson
In this episode of The Steve Corino Show, Steve recaps a wild week in WWE and shares his thoughts on both NXT Takeover and the Payback PPV. He also questions…