Coming into this off-season the Yankees were in pretty good shape when it came to the draft, but after a round of expensive free agent signings it is a totally different story.  Read More →

...and yes UNC is not number oneNot that anyone wants to think about this, but today the AP & ESPN/USA Today polls came out, and as we had all knew would happen, the Tar Heels aren't the number one team in the nation anymore. What is very interesting to me is that out of the top four teams in the nation,... Read more

Last night didn't have many games on the schedule, six in all, but it had several of the ex Carolina ball players, which means that on The Fifth Corner it is time to do the post I call "Heels in the League". In all there should be four ex players from Chapel Hill, but as usual, not all of them got playing... Read more

Tyler Kepner of the New York Times is a very good reporter and writer, however he has to go on vacation sometime. Last week when he was out somebody else posted on the Times Bats blog and said that Joba Chamberlain should move back to the bullpen.  Read More →

...is now officialWhile the UNC men's basketball team surprised most of us yesterday, today's news from the UNC football team, being that Hakeem Nicks is going to forego his last year of college and enter the NFL draft, didn't surprise many, did it? I know it didn't surprise me, especially after the... Read more

...but the sky isn't fallingI waited to write my recap of the game between North Carolina (13-1) and Boston College (13-2) because I wanted to make sure no one jumped off the ledges during the night. Yes, Carolina is no longer undefeated, they will be no longer the top team in the nation, and that is... Read more

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Last week, it was reported that the Mets offered Derek Lowe a 3 year/$36 million contract. While this proposal is certainly respectable, it was far less than Lowe expected and as a result, he did not accept the offer.My question is: does he really think there is a better offer out there? And if so,... Read more

Back in 2005, the Indians signed SP Kevin Millwood to a 1 year contract after teams shied away from him because of elbow problems. The move paid major dividends for the Indians as Millwood delivered with a 2.86 ERA as he led the young Indians pitching staff. Millwood parlayed his great season with the... Read more

When it was announced on December 23 that Mark Teixeira would be a Yankee nobody thought it would take this long to make it official, but then again what’s the rush?  Read More →