New Sully Baseball Video - "A Message for Cleveland Fans"

In the latest Sully Baseball video, I borderline beg Cleveland fans to avoid watching the NBA playoffs and pay attention to the young Indians team that just happens to be in first playoffs...As always, the video is shot, co written and directed by my wonderful wife, Lisa Zambetti.Enjoy the video.

Discussing the baseball schedule with my wife over toast

(Sully and his wife are sitting at their table for breakfast. Sully’s wife is eating a piece of toast.)SULLY’S WIFE:How late did you stay up watching that game last night?SULLY:11:45. Remember it was 2:45 AM in Boston and raining when the game ended. And they are playing another game in just a few hours!SULLY’S WIFE:What do you mean they are playing another game? With who?SULLY:With the

Happy Birthday to two guys close to starting their sports memories

I have a theory about sports fandom.For the first 6 to 8 years of a sports fans' life, they sort of watch sports without understanding it. They may have a "favorite team" because their parents watch a team or kids in their class wear a hat or jacket, but they don't really follow the team.Then somewhere between 8 and 10 years old, the fans start to truly follow a team. The ins and outs of the team

Buy the USA Today 2011 Baseball Complete MLB Preview.

The USA Today 2011 Baseball Complete MLB Preview is available at fine bookstores and probably some not so fine ones as well.If you turn to page 30, there is an article called "NO GIANT STREAK."Guess who wrote it?No guess!Yup, yours truly has an article in the magazine.Essentially I wrote about why I don't think the Giants are going to repeat as champs. (Sorry dad.)I like to think that baseball

My video has passed Tris Speaker on the hit list

Thanks to a bunch of very cool links (including this one from Off the Bench at NBCSports.com) my video The Giant Alternative now has 3,574 hits.That's more hits than Tris Speaker.Next on the list?Stan Musial with 3,630.I wonder if it will pass Stan the Man!Either way, here's the video in case you haven't seen it.And if you liked it, pass it around.I am making a new one tomorrow.

These guys have done the hard part for the Hall of Fame resume…now don’t get hurt: My Latest for the Hardball Times

Is it too early to be talking about Tim Lincecum, Dustin Pedroia or Adam Wainwright for the Hall of Fame? Of course it is. But they've all done the hard part of having great individual seasons and post season heroics already. If they can stay healthy and pile up some numbers, they should have quite a Hall of Fame argument.In my latest for The Hardball Times, I go through the players who just need

Tampa Bay—a place to move a team to, and from - My Latest for The Hardball Times

In my latest article for The Hardball Times, I take a look at the two different perceptions of Tampa Bay as a baseball location:An ideal untapped revenue producer that was destined to lure an existing franchise...And a misguided Major League location that just isn't going to work.There seems to be no middle ground on the Sun Coast.To read the article, click HERE.Tampa Bay fans fans can send hate

What did YOU do at age 21?

When I was 21 I was finishing up my junior year at NYU, eating too much Chinese food, renting movies at Kim's Video on Bleecker street and sharing a tiny apartment with a guy whose name escapes me right now.When Madison Bumgarner was 21, he pitched 8 shutout innings in the World Series on the road against an amazing offensive team to put the Giants to within one game of their first World Series

Off sync with the Giants and my parents

I called my parents the second Juan Uribe won the game for the Giants last night to get their thoughts on the Giants somehow taking a 3-1 lead.SULLY:Some game! Up 3-1!SULLY'S DAD:I love it.SULLY'S MOM:It's great but watching it out of sync is driving me crazy.SULLY:(As confused as you)Wait. Are you watching it live or on DVR? Do you not know how it ends?SULLY'S MOM:Oh we watched the ending. But

How did we do with our picks? (And how did the fish do?)

Before the playoffs began, I made my post season picks… and compared them to the picks of my wife Lisa, my sister in law Debbie, my sons Matty and Aidan, a coin toss and which direction my fish Red swam.With the Division Series over, let’s see how we all did.SULLY’S PICKSPHILLIES over REDSGIANTS over BRAVESYANKEES over TWINSRAYS over RANGERS3 out of 4SULLY’S WIFE LISA’S PICKSREDS over

SULLY vs. A FISH

Earlier this month made my picks for the post season series... as did my wife.When I made MY picks, I compared them to the picks of my kids (who just liked the sounds of certain teams) my sister in law (who was more interested in which players were vegans) a coin flip (always reliable) and my fish, Red.When Red made his choices, I held up a picture of the logo of each team playing in the series

A SULLY BASEBALL VIDEO - What does Fox want?

My picks... my sister in law's picks... my kid's picks... a coin toss and a fish

The playoffs are starting in less than an hour and it is time to make my official picks.Now my picks tend to suck... despite my following EVERY team in baseball and thinking way too much about, my powers of prediction leave a lot to be desired.So this year I am comparing my picks to Debbie Zambetti, my wonderful Sister in Law and a health and nutrition counselor who maintains a wonderful website

My wife is picking the Giants... her logic is sound

Every year I ask my loving and adoring wife for her picks in the playoffs. In 2006 she got every single playoff series correct (including each of the Cardinals upsets.)The thing is that she doesn't follow baseball. Her logic isn't always sound (she picked the Cardinals over the Tigers because Tony LaRussa is involved in animal shelters and Jim Leyland smokes.) But who cares about the method if

A SULLY BASEBALL VIDEO - Red Sox fans... do the math

Don't make today worse

I usually stick to baseball and whatever silly obsession has my attention... but I can't let today just come and go.Last year I wrote about how I hated this day on the calendar. I feel this day should be one for reflection and to not take things in life for granted.And more importantly it is a day to remember that the worst events can bring out the best in people. As someone who lived in New York

Why doesn't MLB want my money?

This past Labor Day weekend my family took a weekend trip to the lovely city of San Diego... and while I was there I ran smack dab against a Major League Baseball rule that didn't make a lick of sense to me.Bear with me.We were staying in a hotel right across the street from PetCo Park, a stadium I hadn't seen yet. Now the Padres were playing the Rockies Friday night, Saturday afternoon and