9 Bold Predictions for the 2016 Season

By: Mike Carter I was asked to make nine bold predictions for the upcoming 2016 season. I’ve thought long and hard and hope to have you scratching your head or turning your eyes going, “what is this guy thinking? The Chicago winter rotted his brain!” So here goes nothing:   1.) The Cubs will not…

Hot Stove Week in Review Nov 24-30

NEWS Josh Willingham has announced his retirement from the MLB. He played 11 seasons for 5 teams; Marlins, Nationals, A’s, Twins and Royals. He ended his career with 195 HR’s and 632 RBI’s and won a Silver Slugger in 2012 with the Twins. The Reds have hired Kevin Towers as their new Special Assistant of…

Playoff Predictions: Josh

AL WILD CARD This game is going to be hard for me to watch because my Mariners were so close to being in this game. With that being said I am picking the Royals to beat the A’s. The A’s have not looked good the last half of the season and say what you want…

Playoff Predictions: Kelly

AL WILD CARD My predictions at the beginning of the year I had the Oakland A’s making it to the ALCS but they had a huge melt down and barely backed into the 2nd Wild Card spot. After saying that, I think Oakland beats the Royals and only because they have Jon Lester starting. I’m…

MLB Trade Deadline Trade List

By Kelly: Yesterday was one of the most exciting ending to a Trade Deadline that I have ever seen. Norm and I did a pretty good job keeping up with all the trades on the 9 Inning Know It All Facebook page but just in case one fell through our hands here’s everything that happened…

Craziest MLB Trade Deadline Ever

By Josh Let’s be honest, for a few hours I wasn’t able to accomplish as much as I normally do. My phone was going crazy with people tweeting like crazy about all that was going on in the MLB world. Things were absolutely crazy. Heck here is the easiest way for me to break everything…

Manny being Manny

By Josh: It used to be that the phrase Manny being Manny would draw a smile and a laugh from baseball fans. Manny Ramirez was a great but very unusual baseball player. His antics were the talk of all of baseball for a time. However, now the term Manny being Manny brings on a negative…

Norm’s Way to Early Predictions

I normally won’t do my predictions this early. But, with all the snow we got and being cooped up for the past couple of days, I figure what the hell. So here are my pre-spring training predictions for the 2014 season. WARNING: This is subject to change after spring training. I will start with the…