An Ode To "Mad Dog"

Greg Maddux has decided to hang it up.

The legendary Greg Maddux retired Monday after having one of the greatest careers in baseball history.


Maddux in the 90's joined the dominant Atlanta rotation of John Smoltz and Tom Glavine that helped lead the Atlanta Braves to win the 1995 World Series.

As a Cubs fan who watched Greg Maddux get his 300th win and his 3,000th Strikeout on WGN, let me say: Thanks for the memories, Greg.

"Mad Dog" showed that you didn't have to throw 95 MPH and strike out ten batters a game to be sucessful in the Major Leagues. You just have to be a smart pitcher, and Greg Maddux was without question, a very smart pitcher.

I Can't wait to see Greg Maddux give his Hall Of Fame acceptance speech in Cooperstown a few years from now. He deserves it.

Like a true Cowboy, Greg Maddux will now ride off into the sunset.

John Smoltz: 3,000 Strikeouts

Click On The Video to see John Smoltz get his 3,000th Strikeout against the Washington Nationals. Hurry! There Is Only a limited ammount of time before MLB Advanced Media will file a copyright claim to get the video removed!


Smoltz struck out 10 batters, but the braves lost 6-0 to the Washington Nstionals, but nobody will remember the score of the game 20 years from now. They will remember John Smoltz. Smoltz has been on the front and back end of the Braves rotation, as he saved 55 games in 2002 while winning 14 games for the eventual NL East Champions upon his return to the bullpen.

If you add to that the Braves are the only uniform he's ever put on in a dying art of players staying with one team their entire career, John Smoltz should abseloutely Join Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux in the Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown.

Pop Goes Pedro...And The Mets Season?

Pedro Martinez will be out until at least May with a strained hamstring. Pedro hurt the hamstring in the fourth inning. The Mets lost Pedro and ended up losing the game to Florida 5-4 in ten innings. Many Mets fas are already starting to panic. Calm Down Mets fans. You're less than a week into Baseball season, and your already pressing the panic button.

This brings up a bigger issue. The Mets rotation is one huge mess without Johan Santana and Pedro Martinez. Tom Glavine is gone, and there is a glaring hole in that Mets rotation that only got bigger with the loss of Pedro.

Hopefully, that wasn't Pedro's final bullet from his arm. I've always enjoyed watching Pedro pitch because he's a smart pitcher who doesn't have overpowering stuff, but he's smart and knows how to pitch.

The Greatest Weekend In The History Of Baseball!

This past weekend was the greatest weekend in Baseball History. On Saturday, Alex Rodriguez finally hit his five hundreth homerun, becoming the youngest man ever to hit five hundred homeruns. Alex Rodriguez became the first man since the great Mickey Mantle hit his five hundreth homerun at Yankee Stadium.

Saturday Night, Barry Bonds hit his reord tying 755th homerun (above), tying him with Hank Aaron. I watched it on ESPN and the reaction by the fans to Barry tying the record in San Diego was just what I had expected it to be, with a mix of cheers and boos, but with more cheers than boos. Reguardless of your feelings about Barry and how he did it, he is making people tune in to watch him break the record and he is causing people to come to wherever he goes in droves, so that they can say that they saw Barry Bonds tie (and soon break) the All Time Home Run Record.

The Final Milestone of the week I also saw on ESPN. Tom Glavine, the longtime Pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets, got his three hundreth victory at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs. Many people are saying that Glavine will be the last 300 Game winner, as "The Big Unit" Randy Johnson is currently stuck at 284 victories and may be stuck there, depending on how his back feels and if it can handle the load of pitching 16 more victories.

This was the Greatest Weekend in Baseball History and the Greatest Weekend in the History of Sports. Where else would you have seen three historic milestones in the same weekend?