Michael Rifkin

Angels Need to Be Careful

By : Mike Rifkin Every Season we expect the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim to be a playoff team. And every year it is the same result they aren’t. The Angels just got swept in Baltimore by the Orioles and are now 38-49 fourth place in the AL West and seven games back of theContinue reading “Angels Need to Be Careful”

TWIW – This Week In Wrestling (7/2 – 7/8)

By Jeff Knapp This past weekend we saw 2 solid PPVs (premium live events) from both Impact Wrestling with Against All Odds and the WWE with Money in the Bank. At Against All Odds, we saw some solid tag team work with the veteran Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) notch aContinue reading “TWIW – This Week In Wrestling (7/2 – 7/8)“

Blackhawk Rebuild

By : Mike Rifkin When former Blackhawks General Manager Stan Bowman resigned in wake of the Kyle Beach lawsuit assistant GM Kyle Davidson took over and said he was going to rebuild this team. On Thursday he certainly decided to start that rebuild with two massive trades involving younger players. He traded 24 year oldContinue reading “Blackhawk Rebuild”

How Is Keith Hernandez Not A Hall Of Famer?

By : Mike Rifkin On Saturday the New York Mets will retire the number seventeen in honor of First baseman Keith Hernandez. The Mets acquired Hernandez from the St. Louis Cardinals in 1983 for pitchers Neil Allen and Rick Ownbey. Hernandez was the first captain in team history and was a big piece when theContinue reading “How Is Keith Hernandez Not A Hall Of Famer?”

TWIW – This Week In Wrestling (6/26 – 7/1)

By Jeff Knapp One of the biggest nights in all of wrestling happened on Saturday 6/26 when AEW and New Japan gave us Forbidden Door. This was a great show from start to finish. Chris Jericho’s team picked up the win and now gets the one-man advantage going into Wednesday’s Dynamite “Blood and Guts” cageContinue reading “TWIW – This Week In Wrestling (6/26 – 7/1)“

Houston We Have The Best Team in Baseball

By : Mike Rifkin The Houston Astros have a 48-27 record and lead the American League West by 11.5 games. Now all of the talk in the American League has been about how good the Yankees are, how much fun the Blue Jays are to watch, the White Sox struggles, etc…. The division they playContinue reading “Houston We Have The Best Team in Baseball”

TWIW – This Week In Wrestling (6/19/22 – 6/24/22)

First off, I’d like to send my condolences to the family of long time WWF/WWE referee Tim White. From what I’ve read he was very well respected and loved by the wrestlers. I had the opportunity to meet him many years ago at a signing along with Eddie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero Jr. All 3Continue reading “TWIW – This Week In Wrestling (6/19/22 – 6/24/22)“

Ondrej The Clutch

By : Mike Rifkin With their season on the line the two time defending Stanley Cup Champions Tampa Bay Lightning went into Colorado and kept their season alive with a 3-2 victory. The game winning goal was scored by Ondrej Palat with 6:22 left in the third period. For Palat a seventh round pick inContinue reading “Ondrej The Clutch”

Starting To Need

By: Mike Rifkin In the third inning of Wednesday’s loss to the Astros Mets starter Carlos Carrasco exited with what the team called lower back tightness. Another blow to a rotation that is already without Jacob DeGrom, Tylor Megill and Max Scherzer who might be back Sunday. But Carrasco’s 2.1 innings comes a day afterContinue reading “Starting To Need”

This Is Francisco Lindor

By : Mike Rifkin When the Mets traded for and signed Francisco Lindor to a 10 year 341 million dollar contract Mets fans were excited. In 2021 Lindor struggled mightily. Lindor’s slash line in 2021 was .230/.322/..412 with 20 home runs and 63 RBI. In Sunday’s 6-2 loss to the Marlins, Mets Shortstop Francisco LindorContinue reading “This Is Francisco Lindor”