San Fransisco Giants RHP Tim Lincecum has been known as “The Freak.” We have been calling him that now for so long that the moniker belongs to him.
While Lincecum may be The Freak now, I always believed the original Freak was Alfonso Soriano.
When Soriano first came up with the New York Yankees, he was this skinny, 135-lb-soaking-wet toothpick that could hit a baseball 400 feet and do it with what appeared to be very little effort.
We all remember the home run he hit off of Curt Schilling in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series on a ...
A successful boss I had once told me that if a new employee doesn’t demonstrate their value within the first 90 days, they never magically turn things around and become good. Sometimes you know sooner than that. I fired the 2011 Cubs after three games this year. That’s right, three games. And I don’t think I’ve ever felt so good about an executive decision I’ve made. Mind you, I am no bandwagon Cubs fan. I can recite the starting lineup and most of the staff from the ’72 squad, which I watched dozens of times on WGN at 1:10 pm, ...
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